Hey guys, a new story
I'm working on this one with my friend 'Just Moon'.
Umm..
We do not own One Piece
I hold Law's hand tightly, mom thinks we'd be better off making friends, so here we are out on this cold day walking into the village where the other kids normally play. I look down at the boots mom and dad bought me, Law laced them up for me. "You heard mom, we can't come back unless we make a friend." Law says annoyed, looking up I see his highly irritated face. "So we'll grab a kid and drag him back and we can feed him then send him back."
"Nii-chan, I don't think that's what mom has in mind." I say frowning. "Besides we can't just go around stealing other kids." I tell my brother seriously, he's probably serious about it too, just picking any random kid and forcing him to come with us. It sounds like something Law would do without a doubt.
"Well if it isn't the Trafalgar kids." An older lady says smiling at us. "It's a bit rare to see you two about in town, does your mother need some flour for her baking?" She asks curiously.
"She says we have to bring a kid back so she can bake him." Law says walking off, shaking my head at my big brother. I wave goodbye to the woman and ran to catch up with Law. "How about him?" Law asks pointing to a kid throwing stones at a barrel. "Looks like he doesn't have anything better to do." He says dragging me along with him. "Kid come with us and you'll get free lunch." Law says boredly.
He looks at us funny. "Why would I go anywhere with you two? You guys cut up dead animals for fun. Freaks." He sneers at us, I look down at my boots. He didn't have to be so mean about it, but I cover my eyes with my hand because I know Law's next sentence already.
"We could cut you up instead for fun. Find out what exactly will keep you alive and more importantly what won't." He says darkly, no doubt smirking. "It'll be fun." Peeking at the kid I see his back and him running away from us. "What a wuss, guess it's better not to bring him home anyways." Sighing heavily I follow Law around, I'm not particularly interested in making new friends either to be honest, after all most of the other kids do think we're strange. Nii-chan is going to be a great doctor, they'll see."Azalea" He says seriously. "Ignore what that kid said." He says patting the top of my head.
"Maybe we should just go to the library instead, we can read some new books." I say brightly to my brother, he likes learning, so this should help some to improve his temper. "Maybe they have that medical book you were looking for now." I says tugging on his arm towards the library.
"They probably do, we could read one of the books you like though." Law says affectionately, walking hand-in-hand like we always did. I smile at the back of my brother's head. "You don't have to be that happy about it." He says chuckling.
"But Nii-chan you rarely read to me anymore." I tell him running so we can hurry up and get there, the library isn't one of those super big ones that dad tells us about, but it has books and lots of ones with stories about warm beaches, adventures in the jungle and of huge animals. "Can I pick the book?" I ask excitedly jumping up and down. Law smiles at me, it's rare for him to look like that at all, normally it's a bored expression or annoyance, then there is that scary look he gets when he's operating on the carcasses we find. I like when he smiles at me like that, mainly because he doesn't really smile for anyone else.
Walking into the library I smile brightly at Mr. Wilson Kirkland, waving to him as Law leads us towards the storybooks, I definitely feel happy. "Alright make your choice Azalea." Nii-chan says as he lets go of my hand, happily while taking a seat on one of the big chairs.
Turning around I look up at the shelves, so many choices, where do I even start? It's been ages since he last read aloud to me. Taking my jacket and gloves off I leave them by Law in search for the perfect book. While looking around I spot to kids closer to Nii-chan's age both frowning while looking at a book. Turning back to the shelves of books I find one at eye-level. It's a pirate adventure book, excitedly I hurry back to Law, Placing the book on his lap I sit down in front of him, sitting like a lady because Law, Mom and Dad lecture me about ladylike behavior.
Law smiles at me. "Azalea, you like pirates? You know how dangerous they are right?" He asks me chuckling. "You've heard dad talking about them haven't you?" He asks amusedly.
Frowning I shake my head. "Pirates are all about being free and sailing the ocean for adventure." I tell him stubbornly. "I want to be a pirate!" I declare happily. "Nii-chan you can be the captain and the doctor!" I say excitedly a huge grin on my face.
Law smiles at me again. "As long as you're going to be in my crew one day." Law says nodding his head. Opening the book to the first page Nii-chan begins reading the book to me in a semi-hushed tone. I'm completely entranced by how smoothly he reads, it never sounds like that when I read.
"Get away from Azalea, if you're going to listen you can sit over there." Law says suddenly, looking on my sides I see the two boys from before. "Move it before I dissect you and use your bodies for research materials."
He's pointing to the empty space away from me. I look from Nii-chan to the two strangers. "Why Nii-chan? Aren't they just listening to you read?" I ask him confused. "You can be mean." I pout impatiently for him to continue on. "If you don't move he won't continue!" I whine shoving one of the kids away from me. "Or he'll really dissect you." I mutter upset at the lost time from the story.
"You heard her." Law says seriously as both boys move finally, but a bit slowly. As they sit down Law continues to read from where he left off. Sitting I listen closely to the story, it's so exciting, going to other islands and finding all kinds of animals, heading to the Grand Line in search of untold treasures. "Alright, time to go home Azalea, Mom will start to get worried." Law says closing the book. "We can check this out."
Getting up I skip over to my brother happily, helping me get my jacket on Law buttons it up, as I tug my gloves on. "Hey we want to know what happens too!" One of the boys whines, he has a hat on with a word stitched on the top of it. "Can't you finish it here?"
"Just come with us if you want to know what happens so badly." Law snaps at him glaring. "Just keep your distance from Azalea." Law says bossily, yup, he'll definitely be a captain. Nii-chan shrugs his jacket on. "I'm Law".He says finally.
"I'm Shachi and this is Penguin. Our parents just got transferred here." Shachi says matter-of-factly. "His dad fires cannons" He says amazed. "He can blow up walls!"
I nod my head at them, glancing at Law I grab his hand. "I'm Azalea, our dad is a doctor." I tell them politely. "Mommy stays at home."
"His dad helps doctors!" Penguin says excitedly. "Maybe our dads are working together." Listening to Law talk to Penguin and Shachi about their parents I grab the book so we can check out, tugging on Law's hand I frown.
"Just come over for lunch, I'm getting hungry." I tell them pouting. "So walk and talk." I command trying with all my might to pull Nii-chan with me, without success I glare back at him. "Nii-chan let's go, we can bring them and mom will be happy." I whine.
"Your sister is cute." Penguin says chuckling, "From a non-interested party like that." He adds quickly.
Eventually I convince them to move their conversation with us to the counter, Law of course handles it since I am apparently too young to check out on my own. Walking out of the library and across the street we run into that same kid, only he's not alone this time.
"Look the freaks have friends now." The same kid sneers. "Bet they're going to go cut up a cat."
Law smiles at them, not the brotherly and kind one he's smiled at me, but a demented and scary one. "Or we could cut up you and your friends. I'm sure having more specimens would make my work more accurate." He says letting my hand go, stepping forward he leans in and examines the other kids like he does the dead animals. "We can make an incision here to look at your ribs and the muscle, the best part is we can keep you conscious during this." Law turns his attention to the other kids now. "What to do with you, so many choices, I wonder how your joints work, how exactly they can rotate so smoothly." He wonders aloud.
Hearing this the other kids scramble away from us. "Nii-chan let's go already." I mutter grabbing his hand. "Mom is gonna be mad when they tell on us." I mumble pouting into his shirt.
Law strokes my hair in a relaxing way, pulling away I smile up at him. "Come on, our mom wants us to make friends. You can have lunch at our house." Law says turning to Shachi and Penguin, "feel free to join us." Nii-chan says leaving it up to them, hearing them calling to us I smile at Law. "See it was easy." He brags airily.
"Let's just get something to eat." I whine dragging my feet while the boys walk unbearingly slow. I tug on Law's hand every now and then to encourage him to pick his pace up. "Nii-chan I'm cold." I decide to see if he'll hurry. Looking at me he nods his head, walking faster much to my delight. As we approach our house the smell of fresh pot-pie and apple-cinnamon pie wafted towards us, pulling free of Law's hand I run up to the house excitedly, I love mom's baking.
"Azalea where's Law?" Mom asks expectedly. "And how did making friends go?" She asks patting my hair down, I simply point to Law, Penguin and Shachi who are still walking far too slow. "Something the matter?"
"I'm hungry, we should start without them." I tell mom shrugging my jacket off and hanging it on the hook thing. Hearing mom laugh I look back at her, she looks really happy, and a bit surprised. "Mom I'm going to the table." I tell her skipping off.
"Miss Trafalgar Azalea, do not touch your lunch until your brother and your friends are seated at the table, do you hear me?" She calls after me with a reprimanding tone, turning back I see her giving me her angry mom-look.
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I glare at Law, he takes his sweet time getting to his seat just to bug me. "Mom since Nii-chan is obviously being difficult, can't we just start. Besides the important people are seated." I sass Law, I grin at him cheekily as he glares at me.
"Law, don't do that, Azalea will copy you." Mom says tapping Law's cheek. "Smile, you're a gentleman."
Shachi and Penguin both chortle, turning back to face the pair I look at them curiously. "So what were you guys doing in the library?"
Both boys look at each other and then at me. "We wanted to read a book, but we can't really read all that well." Shachi confess while his face reddens. "When Law started reading that story we just couldn't help it."
"You sure it's not because you think Azalea is pretty?" Law chimes in taking his seat next to me. "You two got pretty close to her." He says dryly.
Mom chuckles as she smacks Law's head on to the table. "Boys can think Azalea is cute, the only problem is you're too attached to your sister."
Staring at Law's head I poke it gently. "Nii-chan you shouldn't make mom angry." I tease Law happily. "Besides we were all just listening to you read." I tell him picking my fork up I make a start towards the pie until I feel a smack to my head. Pouting I pull my plate closer to myself. "I was going to eat one of the pies." I grumble under my breath.
"Azalea, now, you know young ladies don't grumble." Law says chuckling all high and mighty. "So eat your lunch first." I glance at Shachi and Penguin, both happily eating their carrots. "Mom will hit you again."
Frowning I straighten up as I eat the beef mixed in with the potatoes, while avoiding the carrots. "Nii-chan do you want them?" I ask quietly while shoving them closer to him.
"Miss Trafalgar Azalea do not give your brother your veggies." Mom calls from her end of the table. "Law, don't spoil your sister." She says shaking her head at us as she gets up to get the snail transponder.
Looking across the table I push my plate to Shachi. "You like carrots right, you can have mine." I say happily, both boys quickly eat the carrots leaving only a few left. Grudgingly I eat the last of them as mom comes back.
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"Thanks for the meal ma'ma." Shachi says patting his stomach happily, turning to Penguin he nudges him forward.
"Thank you for the pie ma'ma, mom will like it." Penguin says while holding his leftovers on the tray to take home.
"You're welcome dears. Come back soon." Mom says grinning at them, waving them off I happily head back to the table for that pie.
"They were interesting huh Nii-chan? I hope we see them again" I say cheerily.
"Yes, I do believe we will." Law smirks.
As we head back to the kitchen Mom is standing behind us with her hands on her hips, oh no. "Mister Trafalgar Law where in your mind do you think it is okay to threaten other kids about dissecting them?" Mom scolds us viciously. "Cutting up and wanting to kill them, honestly where does that come from?" Here we go again. She says looking at us. "And letting your sister hear you say those things?" Nii-chan simply smirks letting mom go on and on.