"Snow? Its snow!"

A young girl in a princess dress ran to the window. She looked out to see the glistening snow falling on to the ground. Two young boys came up to the window as well too look at the snow. One of the boys was also a blonde but wearing a uniform fit for a Prince. The other boy had jet black hair and different color eyes. One being stormy gray and the other is black.

These two boys are Katherine's brother Jesse or Jes for short. The other being a younger Crash who at the time was known by his birth name Kid.

"I didn't know it snowed in this country" said Kid.

"It usually doesn't. Sometimes it comes every five years or not at all" said Jess

Kat hadn't heard the boys talk next to her. All she cared about was the snow outside. It was the first time in her ten year old life that she seen it. She was so excited she knew she had to go out and play. She stepped down from the window seal and went over to the doors (which was bigger than her).

But it was Kid and Jess who blocked her path. "What do you think your doing!"They shouted.

"I can't go outside in the snow" asked Kat

"Not without a guard to watch us" said Jess

"Come on Jess it will be fun" Kat gave both them a wink.

Damn was she persuasive. With very little words and a simple wink she had convinced both them to break the rules and go outside.

They had a snow ball fight which almost turned into a real fight. They then began to build a newly fashioned snow man. For a hat they gave it Katherine's tiara, they gave two pieces of coal for eyes. They wrapped Jess vest around him too substitute for a scarf. Midway into looking for something for a nose Kat found some yellow snow.

"I wonder if it takes like a banana snow cone" Kat picked up the yellow snow and directed it towards her mouth.

"No!" Kid smacked the snow out her hands. "Don't eat that"

"Why not its just snow" said Kat

"If the snow is yellow that means someone pead in it"

"That's disgusting! Who would do that!"

"More people than you might think"

Being disgusted by the fact Kat put down the snow and whipped off her hands. She then went back to looking for a nose for the snowman. She looked over at the window seal, she saw another boy watching them from inside. She was curious to find out who this boy was, there were always people walking around in her house doing work. When she confronted her parents about it they said they just worked here. It wasn't a good enough answer.

Katherine walked back inside her house and went over to the boy. By her presence the boy got jumpy and started bowing and apologizing. As Katherine got closer to him she saw he had some different features than her. He looked mostly human but for one he had gills on his neck and a shark dorsal, his skin was also very pale. She heard tales of fishman but he looked more like human than fishman.

"What are you apologizing for" asked Kat

"Please don't punish me" the young lad then started cleaning up the floor with a rag. "I promise I won't cry and I won't stop working"

"Don't do that" Katherine took the rag from his hand and lifted him off the ground. "You don't have too do that come outside and play with us"

"But I might get in trouble"

"Don't worry about your with me" Kat said with the smile of an angel.

The boy calmed down and smiled back at Kat. He didn't know much to say, he was born into a slave life and for all he knew the people who lived in this house were his masters.

"So what's your name" Kat asked.

"Magolodan" he said.

"Weird name"

"Well my dad gave it to me. He is a fishman after all"

"I knew it! I knew you were a fishman!" She shouted (in joy)

"Well only half fishman. My mother is a human so that's why I look more different than everybody else"

As a conversation had started between the two someone watched them from the distance. He hid behind a door watching a slave talk to the princess to what he believed it was disgusting. He would not stand for it so he marched over there and smacked the slave directly in the face.

"Hey what's your problem!" shouted Katherine.

"Sorry princess but this slave is to not associate with you" He grabbed Magolodan by the neck and pulled him away. "You will be punished dearly"

She had no idea what she just saw. That boy, her friend was just attacked for no reason. She didn't have any understanding until her father came and talked to her about it later. He gave her the explanation on how the people in there house were slaves they owned. To be blunt she was sickened. To do that to a person! Make them work for nothing unless you count the abuse, neglect, no treatment of humanity, people were even born for the purpose of being a slave. What type of people did that.

Two years later she was still pale of the idea. To get her mind off of all of it Katherine began taking a liking to both music and piracy. She chose music because every time on her or Jess birthday a band of musicians came and played on their special day. Her parents even gave her a music teacher. She became interested in piracy... well that's about to be shown now.

She was never allowed to go into town herself. So tonight would be the night she would go outside on her own. Her room was five stories high so she had to very careful if she wanted to live. On her way day she spotted the slave camp and the thought of Magalodon came too her mind. Brushing it off Kat made her way down to the ground floor.

It hasn't snowed in two years. So now the ground was now showing off it's beautiful flowers of nature. She walked all the way to town in disguise of course wearing a robe over her face. She could see everything for herself. The people were very busy at night she always thought everyone went to sleep at night.

Amazed by everything in sight she didn't notice the person in front of her and accidentally bumped into his back.

"Sorry" she apologized.

The man turned around at the young explorer. He them mind her and was happy that she did it. He came too this town looking for an adventure or something like that. "Its alright. My name is Thatch what's yours" he asked.

"Katherine" She introduced herself.

He heard her voice, he was shortly under the impression that she was a man. It was a simple mistake, but he believed she was a cute girl under that mask. "Let's take that off you okay" Thatch took off her robbed face and found that he was correct she was angel faced.

"So Katherine are you hungry? I don't mind treating you too lunch"

Well this was unexpected. The man had no clue who she was that was the whole point of her disguise. Thatch was his name so he probably wasn't native to the island. Just as he said he treated her to lunch where she put her disguise back on. They had a nice chat and told each other about themselves.

"Pirate? What's a pirate?" Asked Kat

"A pirate is someone who is free. They travel the sea's in adventure" explained Thatch

"So people are allowed to be free and do as they wish"

"Pretty much" Thatch said taking another bite of his salmon.

She heard straight from the horses mouth. Pirates were meant to be free which was what she wanted for the slaves in her household. Its all she wanted for them, so was the solution for them to become pirates.

After the late night dinner. Thatch and Katherine went to the beach shore and watched the night sky.

"Hey Thatch can you train me" asked Katherine.

"Why would you want me to do that?" Asked Thatch

"To fight for what a believen, thats what you said right. Pirates fight for what they believe"

"In that case sure"

So they trained till sunrise. He had so far given her all the basics on fighting he said he could teach her more if she came to this spot on for the next three day. Because after that he would be gone. So thats what they did for the next three days, Kat said she wanted to be a swordswoman so Thatch thought her all the basics he knew. After the third day Thatch was gone, but before he left he offered Katherine a chance to join with White beard but she declined.

She still trained herself in secret afterwards. She was now sixteen and a smart confident woman. She heard the news of her friend Kid disapearing and was sad for awhile. But she could not worry about had planned this from the day she met Thatch and now she was going to finally do it. At a very late hour she stepped out her bedroom door and went over to a sleeping guard not doing his job. She easily took his keys and went to the slave camp. When she reached the cells of all slaves a panicked up roared.

"Its a noble! Please don't hurt us!"

"Were sorry! We'll work harder!"

"Please don't take are children away!"

"Quiet!" Kat yelled. "Please calm down I am going to set you all free. I am not like the rest of my family I belief you all deserve to be free, so you and your children can smell the clean air and live your lives the way you want to!"

'Boom!'

The door of the slave camp broke down and a slaves of alike ran out. Some holding there belongings and others holding there children. Not long afterwards guards came to take them all prisoner. They charged at them with weapons in there hands.

"Everyone you have to fight!" Yelled Katherine. "There just going to put you back in cages and kill the others they don't!"

As it seemed to motivate a portion of the slaves it wasn't enough of the group. Kat had to do something or things would go wrong and fast. "Please everyone! You can't escape and there not going to let you leave. So you have to fight!

That was the trigger. All slaves (minus the children) fought back. They fought until they could get a good opening and run for the docks. Kat had already prepared a boat enough to fit the big bundle of slaves. Before any of the guards could catch up to them they were already too far gone.

After months of sailing Katherine had found a home for all the slaves to live at peace and secrecy. Katherine the former Noble went back on her now claimed pirate ship with her first mate.

"You ready captain" he asked

"You bet Magolodan" she saidsaid

So here you are the past of Katherine Cross. I will now like to take the time to talk about some things. You probably noticed how Crash was called kid in this. Back then that was his name and he wasn't known by Crash yet. Oh did you know Magolodan is actually the name of a giant shark. Seriously those things are huge. Next chapter will on Tegami's past then we come back to the story line. Now I gotta go there's a hot pocket in the microwave.