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Redone : May 5th 2012
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Time on the Sea
Chapter Three:
"Ace is too weak we need to train more!" Garp decides on the spot. "You must get stronger to become great Marines!"
"No! I'm gonna be a Pirate! Mel Join my pirate crew!"
"Sure," I agree, high-fiving Luffy, I might as well do something since I'm probably stuck here, and I guess life as a pirate can't be as bad as my life before…
"You old fart! I'm not doing any more of your crazy training!" Ace declares, now awake and alert, with a scowl at me.
"Too bad!" Garp gathers the three of us in his large hands and starts to walk off, Luffy wiggling and Ace yelling insults, not proper for his age.
"Wait Garp… what?" the lady named Dandan asks, a bit shocked for the suddenly appearing marine leaving again.
"They will be back!" he calls out behind him. I sigh, "this is gonna be another day of hiking again isn't it…"
I don't get an answer.
I'm between Ace and Luffy, and they begin fighting about something stupid so I whack them on their heads "Shut up,"
"Ow~ Mel, your hits are too hard…" Luffy wines, Ace stays silent as a bump grows on top of his head and reddens.
"That's my girl, keep these too in line, you can help me make you all pirates!" Garp says proudly
"No thanks, I'd rather become a pirate"
That earns a head-butt because his arms are busy,
"That hurt…." I rub my bump
Hours go by, and the sky darkens as we enter farther and farther into the woods.
"Where are we going Ji-Chan?" asks Luffy
"To camp in the wilderness"
"What, camping? That can't be too hard…" I laugh lightly
"Just wait" Ace sighs, as Garp stops in front of a large pit, "We're here" he says and holds us out over the pit.
"Oi, Ji-Chan! Not another pit!" Luffy yells, clinging on to the man's hands wildly with panic in his eyes.
"This is an easier test, for Melody"
"You're lucky it isn't a tiger den, he did that last time he visited." Ace shakes from the memory.
"It's all for you to become stronger!"
"Oi, Oi you can be serious!" I start panicking,
"I'll be back tomorrow to see if you're alive" Garp smiles, and drops us.
"Shit~!" I swear as the darkness swallows us up.
Hitting the bottom, I land on Luffy; the rubber boy is perfectly fine, even with him squished under me.
"Hey, you fine?" Ace's voice comes from the dark rudely.
"I'm great, Melody, you ok?" I hear Luffy ask in my ear.
"Ugh… yeah…" I rub the sore butt I landed on. "But I can't believe he threw us down here" I stand, and survey the pit.
"It's no problem; we just have to get out" Ace says simply, rubbing his head.
"Yeah, look the hole's not that big so we can just climb up," Luffy puts his hands on the wall "Oh look, there's even little holes in the walls that we can climb on" he smiles stupidly.
Wait…. Deep pit… holes in the side of the pit… a buzzing noise starts coming from the holes.
"Ah…. So there's bugs in this pit… wait BUGGS!" Ace yells
"Agh!" let's get out of here!" I start freaking out as thousands of tiny black ants start pouring out of the walls. I pick up a medium sized rock that is on the ground and hand it to Luffy.
"Luffy, throw the rock up, but don't let go"
Luffy looks confused but grabs the rock.
"Ace hang on" I grab the ten year old and help Luffy throw the rock up, Luffy's arm goes with it shooting us into the air and out of the pit.
"Well done!" Garp congratulates as we land on the side of the pit, panting heavily.
"You stupid old man!" Ace screams "We're you trying to kill us?"
"Nope, its training" he smiles "Now, come for dinner" he motions to a fire that he has built, a large slab of meat roasts over it.
"Wow, thanks jii-chan!"
"Great, I'm hungry…" I join Luffy who has started pigging out with his grandfather- wait our grandfather.
Ace just grumbles but joins in anyway, his stomach grumbling.
After eating he left us in the dark forest, we spent two days wondering around before we found the mountain bandit home; tired, hungry and raging.
A couple of weeks have passed since Garp left Luffy and I with Dandan and the mountain bandits, after our trip in the pit. We spent most of our time chasing after Ace, "why are we chasing Ace again?" I ask aloud for the fifty millionth time, I sweat drop as Luffy gets his head caught in a branch- again, his neck stretching until he is snapped back, dangling, feet off the ground, "Luffy, this is the tenth time you have gotten your head stuck!, if you get caught one more time…" I hold my fist up threating him with a punch, thanks to me witnessing Garp's punches for myself I figured out how to use them, Love, it's not hard since I figured out my feelings for the rubbery boy, only he probably doesn't feel the same about me.
"I'm sorry Mel I won't get stuck again" Luffy pleads holding his hands up in surrender. Boy, you are lucky I let you call me Mel, one of the bandits tried calling me Mel once, he heard Luffy say It. Let's just say he won't be around for a couple of mouths.
"Fine… but be quiet we don't want Ace to hear us" I say lowering my voice to a whisper
Luffy nods, and is mostly silent while I get him out of the branch.
"Mel" I look to Luffy, his finger pointing through some bushes, a couple of minutes later, "What?" I ask, my voice barely over a whisper "It's Ace, and some other boy"
Ace and the boy turn toward the bushes where we are hidden, they heard Luffy.
"Oh no" Luffy looks above at Ace and Sabo who have metal poles out ready to attack.
I look up as well "What the hell, stop following me!" Ace yells angrily.
"Ace, do you know these brats?" the other boy asks, this boy has short blond hair, covered with a blue top hat that has a hole in it. And a worn out blue tux type clothing. He has a tooth missing and a Band-Aid on his cheek.
"…Brats….?" I remark.
"Sabo, apologize, quickly, she may kill you, with her bare hands."
"W-what?" Sabo looks to Ace "S-sorry…"
"Better" I calm a bit.
"Don't follow ME!" Ace then yells at Luffy waking him on the head, and then the two ties luffy to a nearby tree, leaving me alone.
"Let me go~ Ace~" Luffy wines "Melody, talk to them."
I shut my eyes, and massage the bridge of my nose, a headache forming
"What do we do now? They know the location of our treasure…" Sabo pales,
Ace thinks for a bit "we have to kill em'" his face is dark.
I open my eyes, staring right at Ace, temper flaring NO killy Luffy! My aura giving off a killing intent. Ace flinches under my gaze "ok, ok no killing luffy!" Ace says hands in the air for surrender.
Sabo just stands there, confused "w-what do you mean…Ace, you taken' orders from a girl now?"
Ace punches Sabo in the arm. "Ow~!" he mumbles under his breath, and swearing.
Unknown to us a man is hidden in the bushes across from us "I need to tell Capt'n Bluejam about this new information, a weakness in the brats…" he sneaks away all sneaky like.
With Luffy free from the tree, the four of us walk around the forest, on are way back to the bandit's fort, Luffy runs off, after something so I walk silently, ignoring the ten years olds when there is some movement in the bushes, Luffy jumps out, and runs away screaming "Giant Tiger!"
"Huh?" Ace, Sabo and I say confused. Then a large tiger, with saber-sharp teeth jumps out where Luffy came out of just moments before growling.
"AHHHH!" we all scream and run away, down the path Luffy went, me in the front, and Ace in the back "Run, run, run!" I scream. BIG TIGER! …. Run away!
We caught up with Luffy, the tiger still chasing after us "Luffy! Why is it chasing us?" I scream at the boy
"I donno, all I did was bite its tail"
"Luffy!"
"What? I was hungry!"
"Whatever! Just run!" I scream racing past Luffy through a small set of trees, grown close together, Luffy. Ace and Sabo fit through just fine but when the tiger tries to fit, it gets its head stuck; I stop running and turn to the tiger HAHAHAHA IT'S STUCK! I laugh "I-it's stuck!"
The boys stop as well laughing at the sight. The tiger roars, causing the four of us to go running again, before it got unstuck.
We stop in a small clearing; I flop down on the grass, Luffy lies beside me "Well, that was fun."
Ace and Sabo sweat drop "Not fun at all!" they yell at me, I only laugh, Luffy along with me
"Stay here; we are gonna go get some water. There's a stream close by"
"Ok" I say, Ace and Sabo, walk off to find the water leaving Luffy and I in the clearing to catch our breath.
I turn and lean on my elbow facing Luffy "So, my rubber Captain, what is our pirate crew gonna be called?"
"Mm, I donno, well figure that out when we leave" he smiles his large smile.
"K" I turn back on my back, looking up at the clouds in the sky. Enjoying the small breeze blowing my bangs around
Luffy is quiet, so I turn to him to see what's wrong, that he's not there only his hat sits on the grass "L-luffy?" He never goes anywhere without his hat…
And then I feel something land on my feet, and pressure on my ankles, I look to see a rope around them "W-what? Luffy?" I yell as the rope is tightened, dragging me a bit towards the tree line Ah! Danger, danger!
"Ace! Sabo! Help~!" I scream as the rope is pulled roughly, dragging me into the forest, my black hair flying, right into the hands of a man with shadows covering his face. I hear a muffled cry and turn to it. I see Luffy in the arms of another, a hand covering his mouth, and arms tied behind his back, his eyes wide in shock. I open my mouth to scream again for Ace and Sabo when a hand covers it. Ropes are tied around me, and a cloth around my mouth, I hear them men talk "Gentle with her, she will fetch a nice price, and is the best chance we got to get the brats." it was the man holding Luffy, as he puts a cloth around Luffy's mouth.
I am lifted off the ground, and thrown over someone's shoulder my head hitting his back. Ow! I lift my head back to the clearing, looking for any sign of Ace and Sabo, but there is only Luffy's straw hat, I hear a muffled thump and turn my head, Luffy has been thrown to the ground, and not nicely either "Stop squirming" the man in shadows said picking luffy up again. This time Luffy was quiet, his eyes in a daze, Baka Luffy!
I turn to the clearing again, to find Ace and Sabo beside Luffy's hat talking to each other puzzled looks on their faces.
"Mphh!" I scream through the cloth, Ace hears it and turns, his eyes locking with mine.
"Crap, it's them. Run!" my capture says, running deeper into the forest.
Ace and Sabo are stunted and I lose sight of them through the trees. Crap! I twist and turn on my captive's shoulder, trying to get out somehow. My hand rests on the man's arm, which is holding me down, and I pinch it, drawing blood. Causing the man to lose his grip, and I go flying to the ground. A loose rock is jammed in to my side, from the fall, tears come to my eyes but I hold them back, I try crawling away. The man's hands grab me again, and I struggle, but his hands are steady, I feel a sticky liquid run over one of my hands.
"Damn, she's bleeding" he says
What? My head swims, I feel… weird, my vision is failing, Luffy is screaming through his cloth, eyes wide. And, I'm gonna pass out again aren't I? Blood loss, I hate it. My mind is consumed in darkness as sticky blood runs down my leg.
– Luffy –
I watch as Melody falls to the ground, I watch as she lands on a large rock, that's sticking out of the ground. NO! She tries to crawl away, Melody! I'm supposed to protect you! I promised Shanks! I can only watch as the red blood appears from under her shirt, running down her leg on to the rocky ground. "Mphhhhh!" my heart wrenches and twists with my thoughts, what if she dies? What if she never sees me become the Pirate king? I don't want her to leave! I want her to stay by my side, so I can protect her! She is everything to me, my first friend, my first crew mate!
What is this feeling?
The men start walk again, Melody's blood trailing behind.
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