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First thank you for your review ZabuzasGirl!
Secondly a random applause for me because I upload already 54'000 words in English, that's quite a lot I think. Wanna know how I celebrate this? By writing an even longer chapter than Chapter 12 (which has the most words so far)!
Chapter 22: Fire
As the Straw hats, Alisha and the mayor approached the town hall the mayor said: "I can not thank you enough for providing my town with resources and nutrition."
"I had an idea how you can repay us our kindness." Said Nami with Berry sings in her eyes, "You could compensate our expenses, but you should consider also that we risked our live by crossing the desert… not to forget probable damages on our ship." She adduced reasons for giving them lots of money while grinning.
"Of course we are going to compensate all your expenses and your troubles will be redound to your reward too however we treated your ship with the highest of cautiousness." The mayor explained.
"That's great Thank you for that!" said Chopper light-hearted while he and the others followed the mayor into a room with a large safe.
"Well I will check that for myself and if there is a single screech at our ship you will get to know my wrath!" said Usopp and tried to sound intimidating while entering the room but he stumbled over a rug and looked silly while he struggled not to fall.
"Don't take him too seriously… however if our ship is damaged we will come back to you." Nami said with a sinister glance.
"Of course you can come back to my office but I can insure you there are no damages on your ship I watched the transport myself!" The mayor explained with risen arms in defense .
"You better did…" Usopp mumbled a bit huffily.
"Alright how high were your expenses in total?" asked the mayor turned towards Nami.
Nami thought for a moment and decided not to tell that they got the nutrition and the resources for the town for free. "We used a bit about 125'000 Berries", Nami rounded their expenses generously up, "But let's say that's about okay for our expenses."
"That's a lot of money!" Alisha said with widened eyes.
"The town is of course very thankful for your hard work to provide us with nutrition and resources so let's say we round that up to 150'000 Berries as a reward." The mayor said while turning red as he opened the safe.
"Oh but aren't you forgetting something? We couldn't use our money for three days therefore we want of course interests and compound interests." Nami explained sneakily while the mayor brook out into sweet when he took out the money.
"Now you're getting greedy." Alisha said with risen eyebrows.
"Well, well we really shouldn't get into troubles with our saviours," said the mayor appraisingly, "however I am very sorry to inform you that we can not give you more than 155'000 Berries." The mayor explained as he approached Nami recounting the money.
"Okay that's a deal." Nami said while counting the Berries herself the mayor had given to her, "but don't forget if our ship's broken we're coming back!" Nami insisted when she put her money in her bag before the group left the room.
"Dad, are we now bankrupt?" asked Alisha her father guiltily (after all she was the one who promised those pirates a reward).
"Don't you worry about that, it'll be okay as long as they're not coming back to get the nest egg." the mayor insured.
"Why are you smiling like that, Robin?" asked Usopp on the way out of the town hall when Robin let her arm sink after she had used her devil fruit power to observe the mayors and his daughters conversation.
"Nothing at all." answered Robin in her aloof manner after she saw how happy Nami was about their money they got as they exited the town hall to wait out side for Kid and Ace.
"I'm bored… and hungry. I have an idea let's go eat in a restaurant now that they have food again!" Luffy said after a short time of waiting.
"Well I guess we could effort a little snack now." Nami said slowly.
"But what about Kitty-Kid, I think we should wait here for her!" said Sanji.
"I'm sure she's going to wait here for us once she returns from the pharmacy. Come to think I wanted to buy some clothes, would you be a gentleman and guardian who accompanies me and Robin?" Nami asked while fluttering her eyelashes.
"Ah… Of course Nami~swan." answered Sanji with hearts in his eyes.
"Alright Zoro I give you some money so that you guys can go grab something to eat." Nami said while she took out a few bank notes, "but look out for the Marines… oh and don't get lost too!" Nami added after she turned around to go with Sanji and Robin.
"Ehrm to whom are you talking to?" asked Usopp and Chopper.
Nami turned around and there was no sight of Zoro or Luffy . "Zoro, Luffy…" Nami grumbled annoyed, "go find them and try to keep them out of trouble; we'll meet up here later!"
"Can we get some money too, in case they used it by the time we find them?" Chopper asked.
with a grunt Nami fished two bank notes out of her bag, before she turned around and left the square with Sanji and Robin.
"Do you really think it's a good idea to let Kid and Ace meet each other all by themselves?" Robin whispered Nami in her ear while Sanji went ahead to check that there were no Marines in front of them.
"Sooner or later they have to be alone eventually!" Nami explained in a low voice with a grin and a shrug of her shoulders.
In the meantime Kid had walked through the streets which were full of life: people had opened their restaurants and some booths again and people had gathered around while other people delivered nutrition in pushcarts from the town border; while also the carpenter workshops had gone into operation to work on fisher boots. Children were running around. Kid was pleasantly surprised only a few days ago the town seemed almost deserted, but she knew that this wasn't just the work of the Straw-hat pirates.
"Mommy, Mommy I know now what I want to be when I grow up!" heard Kid a little boy say enthusiastically, "I'm going to be a pirate!"
"Don't you dare to yell so loudly, the marines could here you!" nagged the mother, "have you forgotten that they brought us also nutrition!"
"But it's way more fun to be a pirate then a marine! I don't like standing still and stuff like that and Daddy said the marines are cutthroats" complaint the little boy.
Kid had to smile when she heard that, there was a time that she thought the same about marines Kid walked into the next pharmacy. "Excuse me I'd like to buy some stomach- and headache pills." Kid said when she waited a few seconds at the cashier booth but no one was around.
"Please wait a second I'll be there for you soon." A pharmacist Explained from the backroom.
"Thank you so much for your help. " heard Kid the pharmacist say when she and a woman with lilac hair and glasses dressed in a doctor coat came from the backroom.
The doctor exited the pharmacy as the pharmacist approached Kid. "I'm sorry for the waiting," I had to take the delivery from the marine doctor." Explained the pharmacist and asked, "How can I help you?"
"I'd like to buy some stomach and headache pills, but I don't have a lot of money since I helped the pirates to buy nutrition." Explained Kid in a low voice.
"Oh so you're friends with the pirates who helped us out? Then I think I can give you a little discount!" said the pharmacist while she turned around to find some pills for Kid. "How much money do you have on you?"
"15 berries…" Kid answered.
"Oh then I can give you only the headache pills, but I can give you a sample of camomile tea, maybe it'll help" Said the pharmacist.
"So the prices really did get higher since the marines are here?" Kid asked while the pharmacist brought her a cup of tea from the backroom.
"Yes, but that's not too bad either, after all I think the prices were to low, but up until now we couldn't raise them because of the other pharmacies!" explained the pharmacist while Kid drank the tea.
"Thank you very much, I feel better already!" explained Kid and gave the pharmacist the money for the headache pills, before she left the pharmacy.
"Please say thank you to the pirates!" said the pharmacist as she started to clean up the pharmacy
`The people are very thankfully for what Luffy and the others did… I think I made a decision!` Kid thought while she walked back to the town hall to wait for the Straw-hats to tell them that she would join them.
While Kid got the headache pills for the journey with the Straw-hats (because she knew she would need a lot of them) Ace wanted to go to the warehouse outside of town but it wasn't to easy to get there since marines were patrolling around the area the closer he got to the town border. After Ace went into a side road, because he tried to avoid some marines, who were watching that the people who wanted to get into a building wouldn't make trouble. Ace walked through the side road but waited at the end of it when he heard a marine say: "Vice Admiral Jonathan… We found the ship of the Straw-hat pirates in a warehouse southwards at the coast the rest of my unit remains currently at the warehouse."
"Really is that so… so once again we'll encounter the Straw-hat pirates… I want you to take as many men as we can spare and surround the warehouse."
`Shit what does the Vice Admiral from the G-8 do here? That'll be troublesome since they found Luffys' ship.` Ace thought and turned around to get back to the town hall, in order to warn Luffy and the others. As he exited the side route where he came from he tried not to look suspicious and walked the other way, but then one of the marines yelled: "Hey you there!" and Ace ran off and didn't hear the marine to his workmate say, "what a weirdo, I thought he was looking for the marine supplies."
Ace really didn't had the time to fight of marines, since he needed to warn Luffy and the rest of the straw hats, so he ran and jumped over some boxes from time to time. Once Ace snatched an apple from a box and gulped it in one bite while he heard one man yell after him: "halt you thief!" who started to chase after him, but gave up a short time later.
After quite some time running around, while trying to avoid marines, Ace stopped eventually and looked around confused: "shit, now I'm completely lost!" Ace mumbled annoyed while scratching his head.
He then saw a woman lock the door of a pharmacy and approached her. "Excuse me Ma'am…" Ace started to ask politely, but stopped when he saw a doctor with lilac hair carrying a little box running up towards them.
"Sorry, I just closed the pharmacy, if it isn't urgent I would like to go home now." the pharmacist explained nicely but decisively.
"Ah never mind…" said Ace hastily and turned around because he noticed that, that doctor was also from the marines, while he walked a bit stiffly away he heard that the doctor started chatting with the pharmacist. Ace ended up asking an old couple for directions. When Ace reached the square where the town hall was he found Kid sitting almost imperiously at the stairway to the town hall.
"Have you settled down already or are you still bitching around?" asked Ace provocatively when he approached her.
Kid just looked a bit annoyed at him but decided not to answer that question and noticed that this irritated him even more when she looked back to the middle of the square. Ace folded his arms and glared at Kid, it almost pissed him just as much off when she ignored him than when she argued with him. "Do you think, the others are still in there?", Ace asked annoyed and yet again Kid just looked at him without any indication that she would answer his question, so he bent over her and almost yelled: "Hey, I'm talking to you!"
"I'm getting a headache from you so would you just shut up and get of my face" Kid said just as annoyed.
"So you have to be on purpose an annoying hack?!" Ace asked while his nerves were shot as he straightened himself.
"And you just have to be a provocative jerk all the time!" Kid retorted, who had stood up to look him right in the eyes since she stood on the first stair and then even stepped one stair up to look down on him.
That was too much for Ace to take, how dared that heck to consider herself superior, he channelled his anger through his fist, which flared up and slung it towards Kid. But she jumped over him and the flared up fist hit the stairs, which cracked. "What the heck… are you out of you're mind?!" Kid asked irritated, "I don't know whether or notLuffy and the others are still in there." Kid said because she thought he was mad about her not answering his question.
"I hate your pretentious attitude!" Ace yelled while he run towards her to punch her in the face, but Kid dodged sideways.
When Kid took a swing for a horizontal karate chop Ace duck down and kicked Kid off her feet. As Kid fell to the ground she hit Ace with a blow on his chin and Ace hit the ground 2 meters away. "Stop fighting on low flame already that's disgraceful for me!" Ace yelled when he and Kid jumped back on their feet, he almost felt embarrassed that he couldn't take Kid, who didn't use full strength, out by using his devil fruit ability.
"Not before you stop rampaging like a child and start using your brain to fight!" retorted Kid determinedly, glaring at Ace; she didn't want a donated victory.
Ace glared back at Kid, no one was allowed to call him a child with acceptation of Whitebeard; he strained his muscles as he ran yelling towards Kid. Ace tried to punch Kid in her stomach but she just waited till the last moment to turn a cartwheel to dodge the attack and kicked Ace in his face in doing so. Ace lurched sideways away but didn't fall to the ground, he turned towards Kid and looked at her his eyes like daggers before he stepped back with his left foot and pulled his fist behind his shoulder. Ace concentrated and his fist burst into flames. "Fire Fist!" Ace yelled when he flung his fist towards Kid and realised a firestorm.
The flames swept across the square towards while Kid did jackknife out of the way as Ace run towards her. Ace rammed his knee into her stomach area before he struck her with a blow on her chin. Kid was flung through the air and landed on her back 3 meters away from Ace. "How do you like that bitch!?" Ace asked.
Kid, who had closed her eyes because of pain when Ace had ram his knee into her stomach, opened her eyes and mumbled annoyed: "Oh shit… what have you done!"
"What?!" Ace asked half confused half vexed before his eyes followed Kids glance when his stomach tightened as he swallowed and added, "Geez… That'll cause trouble."
"Where did this firestorm come from?!" asked a young man who was one of the people(who had minded their own business and gave Ace and Kid a wide berth) that were scattered around the square while some of them even cowered at the ground. "Fire! The house caught fire!" yelled a few people in panic pointing at the burning roof.
When Kid got back on her feet still looking with disbelieve on the mess Ace had created: while some people ran towards the burning house a few people scattered into the streets which led to the ocean as the rest ran chaotically around. "How can someone be so idiotic, using his destructive ability in a place like this and cause such a chaos?" Kid began to nag still looking at the flushed people and the flames.
Ace stepped to Kids side looking at the burning building and said: "Shush I need to concentrate so I can put out the fire!"
While Ace tried to concentrate Kid punched him in the stomach while she turned around. Ace fell to the ground holding his stomach and looked angrily and distorted in pain up to Kid. "You think I'll let you use your devil fruit power!? You'll most likely spread out the fire even further!"
Ace glared at Kid, while rubbing his hurting stomach and just when he wanted to reply angrily he and Kid heard from one of the streets leading to the square a firm voice say: "Everyone calm down the Marine has everything under control! Lieutenant Gilbert, go with some of your man to the coast and bring water, hurry!"
Some Marines tried to hinder more people to enter the square while a few marines led by the Vice Admiral tried to evacuate the square or at least get them away from the burning house, while the rest of the marines were rushing to the ocean to fetch water.
"I think we'd better leave before the square is full of marines." Ace suggested after he had gotten up to his feet again, but before Kid could respond to Ace the two heard a woman cry from one of the streets.
"That's my house! LET ME THROUGH MY CHILDREN ARE IN THERE!" the woman yelled and Ace as well as Kid recognized the pharmacist who burst through the marines, who tried to stop the crowds to enter the square.
Kid and Ace exchanged a short alarmed glance, "Come on we need to help them!" Kid said firmly and ran towards the house while the Marines were occupied holding back the masses.
Ace didn't hesitate to follow Kid to the knot of people in front of the burning building while the pharmacist ran towards her house, but she was held back by Vice Admiral Jonathan. "LET GO MY CHILDREN NEED ME!" screamed the pharmacist hysterically while hitting with powerless strikes, trying to free herself from Jonathans grip.
"Please stop my wife, she's going to burn in there!" yelled a man anxiously from the knot of people.
As Jonathan managed to get the pharmacist into the arms of her husband Ace and Kid passed behind his and the other marines back. "Hey you two freeze!" yelled one marine as Kid caught his attention when she kicked the door open.
Kid entered the house and looked around when suddenly part of the roof came crashing down. Kid turned several cartwheels and did a full length-dive to avoid getting stuck beneath the rubble. When Kid jumped up to her feet again Ace jumped over the flames of the rubble. Kid didn't quite know what to say as she gave him an annoyed look, why did he have to put up a show all the time. "Why…?" Kid just asked peevishly and sustained.
"Had to make sure the marine wouldn't trouble us." Ace said because he was sure Kid was about to nag about what took so long when suddenly he and Kid heard two children cough. Kid turned around and searched with Ace through the thick smoke for the children. "There they are!" Ace said when he spotted one young teenage boy with his younger sister hiding behind the stairs. Ace and Kid ran towards the children "We're here to help you! Is anyone hurt?!" Kid asked while she and Ace approached the stairs and scanned the children for injuries.
"Doesn't look like it.", Ace said in a relived tone after a look at the fine-boned boy and the girl.
"Bring them out of here!" Kid said firmly while she pushed the boy and his little sister into Aces arms, then Kid tore off part of her trousers and tied it around her face to cover her nose and mouth. Kid turned around and left a baffled Ace at the bottom of the stairs. While Kid ran up the stairs Ace could see a bandage attached to her under leg. "What are you up to?" Ace asked half confused half annoyed after he shock his head.
Kid stopped and turned around looking down to Ace and the children, "What do you think I do? I check the other rooms! Now get the kids out already!" Kid commanded in a harsh tone before she continued her way up the stairs.
Ace stuck out his tongue before he turned around and ran towards the rubble, which blocked the doorway. "You'd better close your eyes" Ace said before he concentrated to make sure the flames would surround him like a ball and walked over the rubble trough the flames while the children clung to him.
After Ace had crossed the rubble and exited the house he lowered the fiery fence which surrounded the house. "My Children!" cried the pharmacist and her husband when they saw their children in Aces' arms.
The children hopped down from Aces' arms to run into their mothers' and fathers' arms. "I'm so glade that you two are save!" cried the mother relived just when a few men with filled buckets in their hands arrived at the square.
"I am actually quite surprised to come across you, Firefist Ace!" Vice Admiral Jonathan said standing next to Ace as the men throw the water into the flaming inferno, but it didn't made much of a different so the men turned around immediately to fetch more water.
Ace looked tensely at Jonathan that was not good now he had to fight Jonathan surrounded by civilians. "Are you surprised? Even though I am from the Navarone base I've still memorized all important wanted posters." Explained Jonathan while the next men arrived with buckets of water (but against that inferno the men with their water buckets had no chance)
"But where is your sister Natalie?!" asked the pharmacist suddenly.
"I couldn't get her anymore… the whole house was suddenly on fire" wiped the boy in tears.
The pharmacist pushed her two children into the arms of their father and stood up ready to run into the burning building but Ace held her back, yet still she tried to free herself to run into her house. "LET ME GO! MY BABY!" screamed the pharmacist but Ace dragged her to the knot of people.
When Ace saw Jonathan look at him with an inexpressive look in his eyes Aces' glance became sinister when he pushed the pharmacist into her husbands arms and let his to a fist clenched hand burst into flames. "Please calm down you and your girlfriend have nothing to worry! In fact I have to thank you for helping us getting this situation under control so we will not arrest you!" explained Jonathan soothingly and saw Ace shaking the flames off his hand. Ace still was wary towards Jonathan even though he had heard good things about him Jonathan still was rankedamongst the highest marines. When a group of marines with buckets arrieved at the scenario Jonathan said: "Lieutenant Gilbert, make sure that your men secure the buildings nearby!"
"We have our hands full by trying to put the fire out, Sir!" tried Gilbert to explain.
"There's no way to put out that fire, it's already out of control." Ace said a bit absently, which caused the pharmacist to sob even heavier.
"All we can do is to secure the surrounding buildings and hope that his girlfriend will secure… Natalie and find a way out." Jonathan said more to the pharmacist and her husband than to the Lieutenant.
"Ay, Ay Sir!" replied Gilbert and told his men to obey the order.
"I'm sure Kid will find your baby!" tried Ace to reassure the family before he added a bit vexed towards Johathan, "but she is not my girlfriend!"
Ace turned away from the family and looked up to a window and thought worriedly: `you have to find the baby and bring both of you out alive…` but then he remembered the other day and added, `And then run back into the building and burn to a crisp.`
While Ace brought the children to their mother Kid had reached the second floor and kicked in one door after another to check if someone was still in there but there was no trace. Kid ran next to the handrail when she suddenly heard a baby cry. Kid knew where she had to go; she rushed towards the last door as the cries became lauder and lauder. Once Kid had reached the door she opened it and saw a crib standing next to a window from where the cries came. Kid approached the crib and looked at the baby, she uncovered her nose and mouth before she took the baby out of its crib. The baby's face had a red tone as Kid put the babies' head against her shoulder and hummed while she tried to lull the baby in her arms to comfort it. "It'll be okay, you'll be fine, I promise..." Kid said over and over again in a gentle voice while she untied the scrap of cloth around her neck.
When the cries abated Kid tied the scrap of cloth around its face to cover half of its face. Suddenly Kid noticed a crackle of wood from above the door and she turned around to see one ceiling joist in flames. Kid run, but just when she was about to reach the doorway the joist broke and fell down. Kid jumped backwards to avoid the joist and covered her face with her free arm as she turned away from the rising smoke cloud. Kid rocked the baby a bit when it began to get restlessly, then she walked towards the burning joist to try to push it a side but it was no use. When Kid felt a sting at her right hand she pulled her hand back and turned around to search for an idea to get out of this situation. The whole room was already up in flames while smoke clouds moved in the air clouding the rectangular of sunlight. When Kid saw how another joist began to sink right before the window Kid pressed the baby against her breast as she rushed forward. Just before Kid was about to jump out of the window she turned around and pushed herself with her feet up into the air. As Kid broke backwards through the window glass she clung to that baby in her arms, to shelter it from the splinters. The room collapsed just when Kid and the baby were out side in midair falling towards the ground.
On the other side of the house Ace, Jonathan, the pharmacists' family and a few other people (including the mayor and his daughter) were looking worried at the raging flames.
"Vice Admiral Jonathan!" yelled Lieutenant Gilbert as he ran towards them and Jonathan and the family turned hopefully around while Ace just had turned his head when all the sudden the walls of the burning house came tumbling down. Everyone at the square cringed and stared in horror at the collapsing house while the ground under the building trembled under its weight. Ace looked with a lump in his throat and widened eyes at the tumbling rubble in front of him, he hadn't thought this would take such a scale he had the hope Kid would come around. Jonathan looked sad at the pharmacists' family: the woman screamed in sorrow while her husband and her children clung at her crying. Once the house was demolished it became for a moment silence before Jonathan raised his voice and gave orders to look for survivors. While Ace looked in disbelieve at the rubble a queasy feeling broadened in his stomach, somehow he felt a bit numb and Jonathans' voice sounded far away. `what will Luffy say once he knows that his new crew member was killed by my fire?` Ace could grasp the first complete thought, when he suddenly was jerked along by Jonathan. "What's going on?" asked Ace suddenly.
Jonathan said something about Ace' friend however Ace couldn't really comprehend it while the pharmacist and her family were running ahead. Once the group reached the other side of the house Ace saw a few men staying in a circle who scattered on Jonathans order and the pharmacist towards the middle where the men had stood and fell to her knee while Ace' queasy feeling eased as he heard a baby cry and saw the pharmacists' husband and her two children felt each other into their arms. Ace looked at Kid who was still lying at the ground with closed eyes however no one was paying attention to her: the marines still tried to put out the rubble, the pharmacists' family was occupied by joy and Jonathan was on the Den-Den Mushi yelling orders into it. Ace kneeled beside Kid and waited a moment maybe she would open her eyes from alone. "I hoped you'd get that baby out alive" Ace began to speak but there was no reply, "You really did it in the last second" he continued after a while of silence between them yet Kid remained silence and also didn't opened her eyes.
The queasy feeling began anew to broaden in Ace stomach when he grasped at Kids under arm searching for a pulse, but he couldn't feel it. He then grabbed at Kids face and stretched her chin upwards and started mouth-to-mouth respiration, but before he could start the chest compression Kid woke up and punched him away from her. Kid jumped up to her feet but she still staggered a bit while Ace, who was now lying on the opposite side of where Kid had been lying, still struggled to get up. "Don't you dare to press your filthy mouth ever against mine, you dirty pirate…" snarled Kid gloweringly after she wiped over her mouth with her gloved backhand.
"Ya know you'd rather thank me for saving your life, you damn bitch!" Ace retorted when he had gotten up again, all his gratitude for undoing his mistake was whisked away.
"Thank you for saving my live after I almost got killed because of you!" Kid yelled now but started to cough subsequently, what showed Ace that she still wasn't that well as he had thought, so he wanted to change the topic, which was easily found.
"Listen we don't have time for finger-pointing we need to find Luffy and the others, the marines found their ship." Ace said in a lower voice yet still straindly.
"I'm not finger-pointing that's a fact you asshole!" Kid mumbled angrily before she added a bit less aggressively, "Where do you think Luffy and the others headed to?"
"As far as I know my brother, they're probably eating somewhere." Explained Ace almost thankful but inside he still seethed with rage.
"Well that's great in this town are only a dozen restaurants without including all the pubs at the docks!" Kid nagged further.
Before Ace could even think about what he was saying he already yelled in his rage: „You're such a pain in the ass, your brother's a lucky devil since he doesn't have to deal with you anymore!"
Even before the last words had slipped Aces mouth, Kid had turned around to punch him with a Haki imbedded fist right into his face so that he was flung through the air and crashed against the next wall before he sank to the ground. Ace was holding his bleeding nose when he suddenly realized what he just had said, while he saw Kid looking at him as he had never seen it before; her eyes were filled with pure, unadulterated hatred. Kid had given him some times really invidious glances before but this time it was different, there was nothing but bottomless hatred.
"Don't ever speak about my brother with your foul mouth." Kid hissed filled with pure hatred.
"I… I didn't mean to… I mean I…" Ace stuttered trying to find the words to apologize, speaking about someone's beloved brother like this was something he'd never would have wanted to do.
But instead of going completely nuts Kid suddenly turned away from Ace and walked away.
"Where are you going?" Ace heard himself asking automatically while he stood up.
"Doesn't matter, as long as I don't have to see your face! Tell Luffy that I'm not joining his crew after all." Kid spit across her shoulder giving him another hateful glance before she eventually run off and disappeared into the crowd.
Hope you liked this super long chapter (Wow 8 pages!); if so please leave a review!
I included my most liked Vice Admiral (even though he's from a Filler Arc I liked him pretty much) however that was a last-minute-decision of mine so I have no idea where I'll go with it so just bear with me.
Now to the bad news: in September I'm in the US visiting my brother, so I won't have time to write.
However I have a question for you guys, in the German version I uploaded many years ago I think I was at the half way point at the end of this chapter (not considering all changes I've done in the English version). Now I already developed an idea for another "Arc" which would tie in pretty good into the Hook-up-time story, so please let me know if I should prolong the fan fiction!