Hey, sorry for the long wait. Personal stuff got in the way and pulled me away from here, but I am here and ready to continue with it.
Chapter 5: From Above! Girl From the Sky.
Dante groaned lying on the dingy with Malik sitting across from him with it had been a full day since they ran out of food and they were getting hungrier by the minute with the large birds flying overhead keeping their minds on what they could do to eat one, yet the energy they should have was long gone. Staring at the shadows flying across, Malik let out a long groan with his eyes seemingly staring out into space.
"H-Hey Dante?" Malik's voice pierced the ears of his crewmate and Dante didn't even open his eyes.
"Yeah Malik?" Dante asked.
"Is that real or am I dreaming?" The question pulled Dante's attention his eyes shot open and there they see it, a ship that looked to be moving through the sky on giant propellors above them, "Well Dante?"
"I-i'm not sure," The words were lost in Dante's voice staring at the large shadow looming over them and staring at it, "I can't tell if we're alive or died and this thing is just our way to heaven."
"Hey, you two okay?" A voice called out from the ship and a face popped out to look at them. With the sun shining from behind her allowed them to get a full view of her golden skin with grey dreadlocks hanging around her face.
"W-we could some help," Malic mumbled with Dante joining in nodding and a rope ladder slid down with her standing on it smiling with a rope in hand.
"Here, tie your boat to the lead before coming up." She spoke as they close see her curvy figure with a white t-shirt hugging her frame and jeans paired with blue boots. Dante took the rope and tied it to part of their dingy as they followed her up to the sky ship, peaking out to see a group of many other looking at him as she smiled at them. Yet Dante and Malik's eyes locked on the small wings they each had on their backs, "Welcome to the Sky Breaker. I'm Emlly Blackstone and this is my crew." They all looked at them with Dante and Malic looking back to them as they waved.
"I am Yeager D. Malik and this is my First Mate Vigiral Dante." Malik said with Dante looked at them smiling and everyone looked to them as they went about their duties.
"Nice to meet ya," One of the older men said shaking Malik's and and looking to him, "So, did you lose your ship in a storm or something?"
"Huh, what do you mean?" Malik asked confused looking to him, "That is our ship, we just need to update it." Everyone stopped turning to them with Dante taking notice of some with a single girl seemingly hiding behind a door.
"So, you two set sail on a dingy?" Emily asked looking at them and smiling with Dante's eyes still on the door.
"Well, it's all I could get." Malik said with a shrug and Emily giggled, leading them through the ship with the way they looked at Dante made him feel uneasy
A large marine battleship sailed into port with many of the townspeople gathering, staring at the large boat that's shadow eclipsing the whole town and watch the large gangplank slide onto land. Rows of marines ran down it and made two lines, a guiding with their weapons in hand and ready as two figures walked after them together. One was a woman at six foot, her olive sun-kissed skin showing through her black bangs with pink streaks and her small ponytail of her shoulder-length hair. White marine cap on her head with a black, long sleeve button shirt rolled to her biceps, khaki pants with brown laced boots, and a marine jacket draped over her shoulders with red term. The one behind her was male and much taller, nearly 8 feet tall with skin, a buzz cut with a long flowing ponytail raining down to his feet on his head and was wearing a full golden kimono with two tooth geta and a sword matching his height resting on his shoulders with a single large scar running across his face.
"Why did they need to send us both?" The man groaned, his golden eyes falling on the people watching them, "This hick place already has a marine base, why would they need us here?"
"Hush Mato," The woman said looking at the people too with her brown eyes, yet a smile was on her face and her arms were thrown behind her head, "It's a just a prisoner escort, nothing to get worked over on."
"You are to lax Enji." Muta growled looking down to her with a group of three marines from the base waiting for them, "What are you maggets doing here, what's Captain Kumi?" The three stared to the towering man and gumped seeing them.
"The Captain is waiting for you at the base." The head of the trio said with them turning and walking to the base with Enji and Nuta follwering them.
"Maggets?" Enji turned to her partner and looked at him.
"They need to know their rank." He said with the two of them walking through the town, the whispers of many of them reaching their ears as they had on to the base.
"So, you two are looking for a location and items that neither of you know where to start or even if it's in this ocean?" Emily's question was from the long talk they had told her with how they ended up nearly dead on the boat with a lot of fresh food in front of them.
"Yeah, pretty much." Malik answered ripping a large piece of meat from a bone and enjoying it, chewing it as Dante ate his food more slowly, watching the faces around them as they were seated on the deck with many others watching them enjoy their meal.
"And neither of us have a map that would help us." Dante added that his steak was eaten at a calmer rate than his captain with the others watching as Malik enjoyed his food, clenching as a thank you, "Captain, show some manners." Yet the laughter from Emily and the others echoed through the deck.
"It's fine, pirates like us don't bother with manners." Emily said with Malik and Dante's ears perking up with their eyes on the woman in front of them, "Oh, you didn't know we were sky pirates known as the Swooping Pirates?" The two looked at the flag and saw a bird skull with wings and crossbones over it
"And you're the captain?".Malik asked looking to Emily who smiled looking to them.
"Yup, known as Death Swoop Emily with a bounty of 20,000,000 berries." Her smile slowly turned to a grin and then a smirk when something hit both of them, Dante tried to stand when he fell forward with a thud as Malik was able to fully get to his feet, yet his vision blurred with Emily smiling as a figure suddenly stuck him hard from behind, landing with a thud next to Dante as they slowly began to surround her, "Damn, it took longer for it to work then I thought."
"Could it be a dud batch?" One of her crew asked and she simply shook her head.
"Not sure, but we'd find out once we get to port." She said as she looked to them and the others nodded, grabbing Dante and Malik, and dragging them off the deck as the rest of the poisoned food was thrown over the board with them laughing at how easy it was to trick them. Yet a single girl, holding the plate that was being fed on by them threw the food, hanging her head down. Her hair was burning red with green eyes and was wearing a bag on her body with many of them still laughing at it.
"Hey you." One of the men called out to her and she gulped, turning to see a man looming over her with a spiked club over his shoulder.
"Y-yes sir?" She asked looking at him with nerves growing as he stepped closer.
"Hurry up and get cleaning, or you'll join them in the cells understood?" His cruel tone ate away at her and slowly she nodded as her small angel wings were much smaller then the others, she tossed the food off before returning to the back were she began to clean the dishes, her mind was still on the men they had just captured.
Enji sat there sipping on her tea, having listened to everything about what had happened, what Malik did, to Dante's betrayal, and then setting off. After the last piece of info was read to them, she and Nuta watched the nervous look on Kumi's face when it started.
"So, all that is the truth of what happened?" Her question was simple, yet everyone in the room fell off with it and gulped as they looked at them, "Because we have to live feed from headquarters and know what you left out." The three men in the room all gulped with Nuta's eyes falling on them, he didn't move yet they were in the right mind to run. Yet no more than the thought popped into their heads when Enji was in their faces, "Volcanic Eruption." She slammed her fists hard into the three, knocking them to the ground instantly and she turned to Kumi, "You are lucky I still need you in charge, or you would have joined them in their cell."
"U-Understood." Kumi said with the other guards trapping the down marines and taking them out as Enji stepped back tot he couch, sipping her tea.
"I wish to speak to the girl that it happened too." She spoke and Kumi nodded, having his men looked for them as she sat there and waited for them to hear that she had arrived.
"Wasn't that a little far?" Nuta asked alone with her, "I mean she was trying to break free a criminal for discussing a lost island."
"Doesn't matter, she was attacked and that's what I handled." She shot back and looked at him as they waited.
TBC.