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Another Update May 24th
Time on the Sea
Chapter TEN!
We stand on the top of a hill; pirates with cat like ears litter the bottom. I stand behind Miss Kaya.
"Kaya! Why, are you here?" Usopp yells, is his covered in blood. Just below us.
"Oh? Isn't she the target of the mission! Then….we don't have to go to the village? If we can just kill her now…." A weird man wearing a large blue coat and heart shaped sunglasses.
"You surprised me…. Ojousama…" Klahadore turns, "What are you doing here?" he pushing his glasses up with the palm of his hand, while blades are attached to his fingers, he eyes me with distaste.
"Merry, and Melody-san told me everything" Kaya stands tall. I put a hand on her shoulder.
"Oh… he didn't die?" Klahadore's face darkens; his eyes become merciless "I didn't show him any mercy."
Kaya gasps, and starts shaking and sweating. I grip her shoulder tighter.
"Why are you here? Didn't I tell you to run away? These pirates are after your life!" Usopp yells at Kaya.
"Aren't you fighting as well?" Kaya yells back, with tears in her eyes. "We treated you so badly… and yet you're here fighting. Even with those wounds…"
"We're different! I…I'm a brave warrior of…"
"Klahadore! If you want my money, I will give it all to you! Please leave the village!"
"I'm afraid… Ojousama… that is impossible!" he glared, "I also want "Peace of Mind, I spent three years here to gain the villager's trust, I feel at peace here." He explained. "Only when I have got both, my plans will be complete. Your death is essential"
I gasped, and griped Kaya's shoulders, as she shook.
"KAYA, RUN! Don't bother negotiating with him! He's no longer the butler you knew!" Usopp screamed, from below.
But Kaya pulls a pistol from under her coat and aims it at Klahadore. "Woah, Kaya…. Don't" I take a step back, letting her have space.
The pirates below break out in whispers, Luffy and Zoro were watching closely.
"Leave this village!" Kaya screamed.
"So… you're not as spineless as I thought…"
Kaya gasped.
"Do you still remember? A lot has happened in the last three years." Klahadore holds his arms wide. "Since your parents passed away, we've been together, we took boat rides…"
Kaya started shaking. And I step forward slowly.
"… Went to town together, I took care of you, we've shared our troubles and our joy… I've served you tirelessly!" But his voice suddenly went down, and winey "I suffered taking care of this nosy little Ojousama. I suffered waiting for so long…."
Kaya started sniffling. And I growled.
"All of this is so that I can KILL YOU TODAY!"
This man is not human! He is evil!
Kaya cries and I rush in front of her as she drops the gun, covering her from the evil.
Usopp swears "Bastard…."
"I was a captain in the past, and served under a naïve little girl. Can you understand how demeaning my days have been?"
I pull Kaya into a tight hug, rubbing her head, as she cries. Usopp jumps at Klahadore screaming "AGRHH!"
"Your Bastard!" I scream, barley keeping myself with Kaya, wanting to bust his face in.
Usopp misses, but before Klahadore is able to swipe at him, Luffy's stretching punch knocks him back; I pull Kaya to the side from getting hit. The heart-glasses man screams in shock. And Luffy grins.
"Get ready to get hit one hundred times more!"
The Pirate group screams in fright, Klahadore is silent.
"Here's our chance!" The three Usopp Pirates run out from the forest, wielding a baseball bat, a shovel, and a cooking pan.
"Die, you bastard!" they charge at the fallen Klahadore and attack his head.
"HIT HIM HIT HIM HIT HIM HIT HIM!"
"How…?" Usopp is shocked.
"You can't come here…!" Kaya worries.
"Stupid kids!" I leave Kaya on the ground and round up the three, taking them far from the butler, they wiggle and scream,
"Let us go!"
"We're gonna beat him!"
"BAKA!" I throw them down, "Do you want to die? Let us handle this guy!"
"Get out of here!" Usopp pants "Run away!"
"We wanna fight!"
"We won't leave you captain!" They chant.
I watch as Klahadore gets back up, the kids notice, and scream in fright, backing into me, so I push them with Kaya behind me, shielding them.
But the man walked by us, straight to Usopp, and kicked him down the hill. And calmly addressed Luffy "I'm a bit curious… that was quite an odd attack, you possess… the power of the "Devil Fruit"…!"
Luffy flexes his muscles "Yup" he smiles "I ate the "Gomu Gomu Fruit" and I've become a rubberman."
"JANGO!" Klahadore calls to the man in the heart-shaped glasses.
"Y-yes?"
"I will take care of this kid! You take care of Kaya Ojousama, make her write the will, and then …. Kill her!"
Kaya started shaking, and clamped onto my leg, the three midgets gasped.
"Also the other brats… they irritate Me." he says boringly.
"Got it" he started making his way up the hill, but Zoro held up his sword "Stop" he glared. "I won't let you get through me!" then the weird guy dressed as a cat roared, and jump into the air at Zoro. He crashed down, breaking the ground causing rubble to go flying.
Kaya gasped. As he attacked Zoro with sharp claws, but was blocked by one of Zoro's swords, caught in a power match. Zoro lifted a foot to the cat-man's face and kicked him back, yelling "Don't get in my way!"
While they continued fighting, Usopp tried to get, but didn't have the strength. As the Jango man got closer.
"Usopp pirate group!" Usopp yelled.
"Yes Captain!" one of the boys said bravely from behind me.
"Protect Kaya!"
"Usopp-san…" Kaya's breathing got heavy.
"Save your breath, you dumb ass, I'll keep all of them safe." I put my hands on my hips. Kaya's grip on my leg tightens,
"Take Kaya away from here"
"YES CAPTAIN! " The kids chant
I smile, and scoop Kaya up, bridal style "Boy's hop on my back" the look stand shocked, so I kick on lightly in the head, "Hurry up!"
I jump on, just as the Jango man pulls out two disk things, and twirls them around his fingers, looking like he's about to launch them, when he is flung forward from pellet shot from Usopp.
I take this chance to charge into the forest, going slower do to the extra weight.
One kid with the hat on directs me through the forest, and I stop behind a large fallen tree trunk and place a wheezing Kaya onto the ground. The kids gather around her, as I fall onto my butt,
"Damn… you guys are heavy…. And I'm already on empty…" my stomach growls in agreement. "Do you guys have any food?"
"Um…" the three kids search their pockets and come up with two candy bars, a mint, and a lollypop.
"Eh, good enough" I chomp down the bars and mint, and such on the lolly. "Kaya You ok?" I put a hand on the girl. She nods, but her breathing is shallow. I place a hand on her forehead, it's hot, a fever.
"What's wrong with her?" asks one boy.
"She's got a fever-"
"COME OUT KIDDIES!" Jango caught up to them… then a bunch of trees on our left are sliced down. "Ag-" I clamp a hand down on one boy who was about to scream.
"Stay here" I command, and push all their heads down, making them lay flat. "Don't come out. Don't make a sound"
"DON'T THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY!" the man calls again. As more trees fall around us. I sigh, and spit out the lolly stick. Then crack my knuckles, this is gonna be fun.
~|0|~
"Luffy, I'm gonna take Usopp and help Melody out with that bastard hypnotist" Zoro says as he places two of his three swords away, and walks from the defeated form of the cat-pirate-man. He gathers up Usopp and slings him over his shoulder "Do you have any problem with that?"
"Nope, not really, but I'm sure Melody has it covered."
"Whatever" Zoro smirks, and disappears into the forest.
Luffy throws a punch at the pirate Kuro, last known as Klahadore. But he dodges it swiftly, so Luffy throws another punch, but Kuro disappeared, to behind him. Kuro swipes at Luffy's head. Luffy falls back, and spins up to his feet again, holding his hat in place with one hand. "You're too slow" he sneers "Melody's faster than you"
Taken aback, Kuro hesitates, and Luffy takes his chance to give him a kick to the head, sending him flying into a nearby tree. Luffy waits as Kuro lifts himself up, rage floats off him, as he growls. "Die!" He flew at Luffy, finger blades straight to stab.
But Luffy grabs the ground, and lifts up a large slab of rock. Kuro's blades went harmlessly into them.
"It seems you can do more than just stretch." Kuro jeers
"Of course, I've been training to be a pirate!" Luffy then swings the bolder to the side, breaking off the blades, and whacks him over the head with it.
"Now only 5 of your weird blades are left" Luffy smiles dropping the rock.
Kuro gets up slowly, blood drips down from his forehead. "Shut up! Pirate" he spits.
"Never, you're going down" Luffy smiles brightly,
Then Kuro busted out laughing "Hahaha, you're so stupid! Don't get cocky just because you've broken my "Cat's Claws" and he disappeared, but Luffy's eyes followed him to his back, and wacked him in the head with a punch before he could say a thing. But he got up again, and smiled evilly.
He then shifted from one foot to the other, swinging his arms with the movement. The pirates behind them start to freak out,
"Wah, that stance is…!"
"D-don't tell me…. it's that special technique!"
"That's the "Shakushi"!"
"He's really gonna use it!"
"We're gonna die, get away!" They start backing up slowly towards the surf.
Then Kuro disappears, a few men fall, swipes killing them. The more and more fall, Luffy growls, his eyes darting all over the hill, watching Kuro move. "You evil butler…. What the hell do you think your crew members are!" he yells
Some rocks are sliced, and Kuro attacks Luffy, but he calmly grabs Kuro's face and slams it in to the ground, making a small crater. "Too slow" he laughs "way too slow" Luffy then addresses the rest of the pirates, who are still alive. "Take him and leave! Never show your faces again!"
"H-HAI!" they scream, gather their fallen captain. And charge from the island.
~|0|~
I stand in front of the heart- glasses man whose name is Jango, and smirk.
"Die!" he yells and throws a round blade thing at me, I dodge easily, bending my head to the side, and catch it just as it passes my head. I spin, keeping with the momentum and fling it back at him, at twice the speed. It cuts his arm, when he fails to dodge, and I charge at him.
Hooking him with my left arm I sprint into the trees, breaking him through three of them. And plant him in the forth.
His body twitches a little, and a little whimper escapes his throat. "Don't even man… Don't even try" I smile.
"Stop! Stop! There!" Usopp's voice is heard from the forest beyond, including Zoro's grumbling.
"Hey, Zoro! Usopp! I beat he already!" I yell to them, waving my arms widely, Kaya and the tree kids sweat drop.
Zoro drops Usopp, that he has been carrying in front of the three kids, and stop in front of me. "Hey," he looks to Jango's unconscious state, in the tree, and sweat drops.
We sit in a circle, just chilling, when Usopp sits up. "Can you guys keep everything that has happened a secret?" he asks his pirate group and Kaya.
"What! A secret, but why?"
"everyone will change their option of you captain"
"You could be the town's hero!" the Kids roar
Kaya swallows deeply "Usopp-San, we have to fix the misunderstanding about you…"
"There's no misunderstanding" Usopp smiles "People will just say I'm a liar, like I've always been, it's over, I don't want to cause an unnecessary fright"
I smile, "That's right, it will only of harm if the village found out."
"Yes, nothing happened, it was all a lie"
"Usopp-san…"
"I won't force it on you guys, but…" he shrugs.
"No, I can do that, if it's best for the village!"
"Same here!"
"I won't tell a soul!" They agree
"Kaya, is it going to be hard for you…?" Asks Usopp
"No" she smiles warmly.
"Cool, now let's head back Luffy gotta be finished by now" I kick Zoro awake, who fell into a nap when he sat down.
"Stupid woman" he grumbled, but followed us out of the forest.
We find Luffy and Nami sitting on the hill looking up at the clouds passing over, (Nami, holds a bag of treasure). I grab a seat next to Luffy, and Zoro, against the cliff.
"Thank you!" Usopp bows, "for saving the village and Kaya, and I have decided to travel at sea, and get my dream of being a brave warrior."
"Great" I smile.
We sit there for a while, and Usopp takes Kaya and the kids to their homes.
I turn to Luffy, so was he very fast?" I laugh,
"Nope, he didn't even compare to you." He smiles brightly.
"Great"
…
Both our stomachs growl, Nami and Zoro sweat drop as we break out in laughs
"Let's go get some food" Luffy stands up, and pulls me along with him, as I continue laughing.
Sorry it's so late! Please don't kill me! I've been busy prom is tomorrow and Anime North, I've been getting ready for it. Are any of you going? I'm cosplaying as Videl from Dragon Ball Z :D