Nexus HWR 3.5 More Pirates:
"And you're sure you're okay with this?" Kirito asked the child in front of him.
The small boy with big spikes of black hair sticking up over his head nodded once. "I'm sure," he said.
"You know, you and Timmy could fly around and probably find them in only a few hours," Gray told the child. The Saiyan boy standing shorter than the rest of them did not seem to care though. Gray continued annoyedly, "Don't you care that she turned you into a kid? Just because they have power maskers doesn't mean-"
"It's okay," Goku said. His hair shot up golden and he smiled around at the crew on the grassy deck with him. "I feel like I kept all my power so it doesn't bother me very much." The kid reached to his side and grabbed a brown appendage swinging there, "Plus I got my tail back!"
"I guess that's one positive of the whole experience," Ben mumbled. He looked towards Killua, leaning casually on the starboard railing. The white haired boy showed no signs that he had any emotions about the man he killed the day before. Ben frowned and then looked back towards the cabin, "Do you guys think Sora will be okay?"
"I'm sure he will be," Riku told his younger friend. "He's more bummed out that he didn't win his fight than anything." The silver haired teen chuckled as he walked towards the bow. The entire crew was out and about except for Riku's friends from his home world. Sora's head was still hurt from the day before's battle and Kairi wanted to stay with him to keep him company while he recovered.
The auburn haired girl made it up to the kitchen for lunch, but she only stayed for a minute or two to grab herself and Sora some plates. The day was going by uneventfully compared to the day before.
"Hey guys!" The crew on the deck below looked towards the crow's nest where Timmy was standing on the railing. The young boy looked down and shouted, "Two ships off the port side!"
The crew looked at each other then ran to the edge of the ship and looked off. They stared far into the distance but none of them could see the ships Timmy said were there. Usopp pulled down the goggles he had over his head and twisted around the knobs on the sides of them. "He's right," Usopp said and peered closer to the ships he spotted. "Two of them, one a huge galleon with a lot of high tech weapons, the other a smaller, darker ship that's moving faster than the big one." The day that almost went by without incident was about to change.
"Are they enemies?" Natsu asked, looking for a fight since he did not get a good one against the Neo Navy the day before. He and the others were finally able to see the ships coming, and boy were they moving fast.
Timmy stayed quiet for a few seconds. "Well," the boy began. He sounded a little nervous as he continued, "They have Jolly Rogers on their masts, but there's something weird happening."
"Weird how?" Nami shouted up.
"Whoa!" Usopp stumbled back and he popped his goggles up over his head. A hundred meters in front of the two boats heading towards them, the water started bubbling. Out from under the surface of the ocean emerged a ship. This ship was not coated with a special material to allow it to dive like the Straw Hats had used on their own ship once. This ship they watched emerge from the depths looked like it should have stayed on the bottom of the ocean.
There were holes all over the hull, the sails were torn and waving in the wind, and the water that stayed up on deck when the ship arose leaked out from the hundreds of holes all over the dark ship. "G-G-Ghost ship!" Usopp shouted in panic.
"It's not a ghost ship," Nami scolded the younger man. She glared out at the ship that sailed towards them faster than the other two and was almost upon them now. As she looked that way, she spotted a few people standing on the bow of that ship. All three people looked part fish, but also part decomposing person. Nami's face turned blue as did five others on the deck.
"Okay, kind of freaked out," Ben admitted and took a step back. "What the heck is that thing?"
The dark, rotting ship turned so that it was coming up on the Straw Hats' port side. The ship's side was lined with barnacle-covered pirates holding up rusty weapons. "Do they want to fight?" Luffy asked. He lifted up his right fist, "I'm happy to give them one."
"Can we not get in a fight for one day?" Nami groaned at her captain.
Sanji came out of the cabin with Robin and they looked to the side of the ship at the undead warriors staring back at them. The whole image was very creepy, but right in the middle of the enemies, Sanji noticed something weird. "Who is that?" He muttered.
Robin was staring at the same man: light skin, handsome, black hair slicked back into a ponytail. His clothes looked cleaner than his fellow crewmates', and he looked more human. The man reached down and grabbed the hilt of the sword on his waist. As the man's hand touched his sword, another hand stuck out of the hilt and smacked his hand away. The man looked thoroughly surprised and he pulled his hand back when he saw the arm sticking out of his hilt. A second later the arm faded away and a bunch of flower petals dropped to the floor.
The other two ships were nearing closer, but the rotting one on their side had already arrived. "What do you want?" Riku called off the deck at them.
"A fight?!" Natsu yelled over.
"Trust me friend," the light skinned man on the ghost ship began in a voice laced with a heavy British accent. "You do not wish to get in a fight with us." The guy looked more human than the rest of his crew, but a closer look showed he had the same dark, dead eyes as any of them.
Still, despite his unsettling appearance, the challenge remained and half the people on the Thousand Sunny got ready for a fight. Their ships were staying next to each other and people were matching up with monsters across from them.
Rin looked across the gap over the sea at his enemy- a blue man with the head of a hammerhead shark and barnacles all over his neck and arms. He had a big axe in his hands and he bared his sharp teeth at the teen. Rin did not flinch at the snarl and the fish guy eased back a little.
"And why wouldn't we want to fight you?" Killua chided over. "Are you too strong for us?"
His sarcastic tone did not go over well with their British foe. The man started glaring at Killua who in turn glared back and unnerved their opponent. The man started to slide his sword out of its sheath, his men took steps towards the railing, and then a gunshot fired from the Straw Hats' other side. They looked the other way and watched as another of the ships sailing their way pulled up on their starboard side. It was the huge galleon covered in heavy cannons and laser turrets.
The third ship pulled up right in front of the Thousand Sunny. It pulled so close before stopping that the figureheads were almost touching. The person who fired the gun up in the air was on the huge galleon to starboard. They all looked over at the side of the bigger ship as a lone figure walked to the edge. "Hello!" The woman holding a smoking pistol called down. She blew out the smoke and spun her pistol around before sliding it back into her holster. There was a big drop from the side of her ship to the deck of the one below, but she dropped down and landed perfectly fine in front of Luffy's crew.
"Who are you?" Luffy asked with narrowed eyes and a frown. "And get off my ship."
"Luffy!" Sanji yelled angrily. He sped over and bowed in apology to the beautiful woman who landed on their deck. She lifted her right hand to her head and took off the big black pirate hat she had on. The woman shook her long blonde hair out and Sanji dropped his jaw even more at how gorgeous she was.
"My name?" The woman asked incredulously, narrowing her eyes back at Luffy. "And who are you? I have never seen your Jolly Roger before. New pirates?"
"What's it matter to you?" Usopp called over from a deck away. She looked over at him and he had his slingshot pulled back far while aiming her way.
She glared at him and nodded her head once. The floor at Usopp's feet splintered at the same time as a gunshot sounded. Those who were not in panic snapped their heads up to the woman's deck. At the top of the starboard side was a man with a sniper rifle in his hands. After they saw him, the entire side of her ship lined with soldiers. The panels on the side that had weapons sticking out of them all had men visible inside them now too.
"Hold it right there!"
Both parties got ready for battle, but one man's shout carried over everything else. They looked towards the bow and saw a man with a red bandanna on standing on the figurehead of the ship in front of them. That man had his own hands behind his back as he walked forward and stepped from his figurehead across a wide gap to the Thousand Sunny's lion face. "Let's all be civil about this, can't we? Perhaps they are new pirates," the man with long black dread suggested. "Why destroy our very own?"
"We are not like pirate scum like them," the blonde woman growled.
"Would you like me to release the Kraken?" The handsome man on the monster ship questioned her. The blonde woman looked over and shook her head at him. They made eye contact for a few seconds before she looked back at those on the deck with her.
"If you don't tell me who you are in a second, all three of your ships are going to sink," Luffy said, his head bowed as he did.
"Oh!" The guy with dreads shot his hand up. "By 'all three,' you don't mean mine too, do you?" Luffy did not respond and the guy started tiptoeing back towards his ship.
"To fly a Jolly Roger and not even know," the woman before the other pirates mumbled to herself. "None of you know who I am?" They all looked at her blankly and she narrowed her eyes. "I am the Queen of the Pirates- Elizabeth Turner."
"And I am Will Turner," the man on the broken-down ship to the port side added. "Captain of the Flying Dutchman."
"F-Flying D-Dutchman?" Usopp whispered in a horrified voice. "Th-That ship doesn't exist."
"Sure looks like it does," Ben whispered to the sharpshooter as they both looked at the ghost ship.
Luffy never turned to that other man though, instead just staring at the blonde woman in front of him with the same shocked look everyone else had on their faces, only his came from before Will spoke. "You," Lufffy began in a confused voice that was gradually getting angrier. Elizabeth did not like the look in Luffy's eyes and she rose up an open palm. All of her men got ready to fire, Will's zombies moved forward, and the odd guy who jumped onto the Sunny's bow completely ran back to the figureheads now. "You're the Pirate Queen? Who says?" Luffy's fists clenched hard at his sides. His crew got ready and his friends saw that he was about to get in a fight and prepared themselves as well.
"Everyone!" Elizabeth shouted.
"Men, ready!" Will announced.
"Hey guys!" Luffy yelled. "Let's-"
"Why is it so loud up here?" A groggy voice called out in annoyance. The cabin door of the Thousand Sunny opened up and a teenage boy with spiky brown hair stumbled out on the deck. He was pulling his own head bandages off as they had finally gotten enough Cure magic to vanish completely, while an auburn haired girl walked behind him and picked up his discarded wrappings.
Luffy did not look away from the woman before him, but she did turn towards the voice. She turned and her jaw dropped at the sight of the boy stepping out of the door. Will looked over too and the captain of the Flying Dutchman dropped his jaw just like his wife.
Sora rubbed his eyes and looked back and forth at the two ships on his sides. Then he looked straight ahead and his eyes lit up. He jumped over the railing and glided over to the bow where he landed right in front of a surprised-looking man on the top of their figurehead. "Jack!" Sora exclaimed at the pirate in front of him.
"That's 'Captain' Jack Sparrow to you," the pirate replied. After saying it, the man grinned and finished, "Sora."
"Sora!" Will and Elizabeth yelled simultaneously.
Killua groaned out loud and leaned back where he was. "What a surprise," he muttered, "Sora knows them too." The boy's sharp nails retracted and he relaxed himself.
"Sora," Elizabeth walked towards him and she lowered her arm down to her side. "What are you-" she stopped talking and looked up at the sail of the ship. She looked at Luffy's Jolly Roger and then back at the boy in surprise, "Did you become a pirate?"
"Don't be so surprised," Sora remarked as he turned back to Elizabeth. "I didn't expect you to be a pirate either 'Ms. Swan,'" he chided with a grin, and gave her a small bow.
"That's Mrs. Turner," she corrected.
Sora's eyebrows lifted up and he spun around excitedly. "You and Will, for real?" He looked over at Will who nodded his head. The others looked towards the Flying Dutchman too, but as they looked, Will Turner was no longer there. They spun around confused and a bunch of them jumped in surprise as Will was suddenly standing only a foot in front of Sora. Sora himself looked surprised and said, "That's a new one."
Will nodded his head as Sora looked closer at him, and the younger boy's eyes widened. "Will, your heart," Sora said. "It's gone."
"Not gone," Jack spoke up before the Turners could. Sora turned to the more scraggly looking pirate who smirked over at Will. "His heart is nice and safe on the Pearl."
"You took his heart?!" Sora shouted in surprise.
"No," Elizabeth said softly to the panicking teen. "Sora, do not worry. To be the Captain of the Flying Dutchman, Will's heart had to be put in a chest. Most people assume I have his heart and we want to keep it that way."
"I... don't understand," Sora said. He smiled though, "But it sounds like everything's okay."
Most of Luffy's crew had relaxed by now and were waiting for Sora to introduce them to these strange people. A few of them were looking at Sora with more confused looks than others though. Robin had her eye on the young man, He knew King Neptune 1, these pirates, and Misty's friend. I hope that he has as many contacts on the mainland of Aebrith.
"So you guys are married huh?" Sora asked in amazement. There was someone walking up behind him while he spoke but he did not notice her yet. The two he asked nodded their heads at him and Sora added, "Just for clarification, how long has it been since we last met?"
"Since we last..." Will began confusedly. "I would say at least a half dozen years. But oddly you look only a few years older."
"Hehe, wonder why," Sora said and scratched the back of his head. His old friends were looking at him funny, but Sora noticed the person behind him and his face lit up. "Oh! Jack, Will, Elizabeth," he moved to the side a little and the girl standing behind him stepped forward. "This is Kairi, she's my fiancé."
Kairi nodded her head at the surprised pirates and giggled at their shocked reactions. "Sora, you-" Will began.
"Tying yourself down a little early there aren't ya?" Jack interrupted and laughed.
Sora laughed too but he shook his head. "No way," he replied and Kairi smiled wide at her fiancé for that answer.
"Well good for you," Elizabeth said in a positive tone. "And you," she added while looking at Kairi. "Sora saved my life-"
"All of our lives," Will corrected.
"Many times," Elizabeth finished.
"Port Royal would be a pile of scrap if it weren't for him," Jack agreed and pulled out a flask to drink out of.
"Port Royal?" Nami spoke up loudly. "Were you there when the Heartless attacked?"
"Why yes," Elizabeth responded. "How would you know about-"
"Actually guys," Sora called out to stop the confusion. He looked at his old pirate friends and continued, "There's a new Port Royal on Nexus. It's over in Awul, so I'm not surprised you haven't seen it before if you've been on Aebrith this whole time."
"'New,' Port Royal?" Franky muttered to himself. "Then you're all from the world it's really from?"
"Actually," Ben spoke up. Sora looked nervous for a second by that question, but the younger boy continued, "There was a Port Royal on my world too. It was a haven for pirates back in the seventeenth, eighteenth centuries."
"Back in the eighteenth century?!" Elizabeth exclaimed. "Are you saying you are from the future?"
"Hey!" Before Ben could speak, Luffy shouted over everyone else. He glared over at Elizabeth and asked, "Why are you the Pirate Queen? Who says?"
"Watch you mouth," Will growled over at the younger man speaking to his wife.
Sora spun from Luffy to Elizabeth to Will and he shot his hands up in the air. "Whoa! Everyone calm down." He shook his head around a few times, and said, "Guess I should have done this earlier, but I'll introduce you guys."
Sora went around from the three pirates in front of him to every person, alien, cyborg, demon, and even cat on the Thousand Sunny. The three pirates looked at the kid who Sora introduced as Goku carefully but shook their heads and kept looking around as Sora continued introducing his friends. When he finished he took a deep breath and sighed, "Now that we're all introduced," he paused and looked to Elizabeth, "what is he talking about, Pirate Queen?"
Elizabeth frowned and looked over into Luffy's eyes. "It is a title from my own world. The pirate lords nominated me their Queen."
"I nominated her," Jack spoke up and rose his right hand.
"Yes, thank you Jack," the Queen said without turning to look at him. "When we came to this world, using that title demanded respect from fellow pirates. Yes, many try to fight because of the title, but for now no one has succeeded in taking it."
"So, you really are the Pirate Queen then?" Luffy asked, looking more surprised now. At first he thought she was just claiming the title without right or pretending to be the Queen, but if it was really recognized that she was the Queen, then... "Then fight me!" Luffy shouted at her.
"Me?" Elizabeth asked, slightly taken aback.
"Not a chance," Will snapped at the younger pirate.
The young man in a straw hat frowned, "Then how am I going to be the Pirate King if I don't-"
"The Pirate King?" Jack questioned loudly. The pirate who was getting progressively more drunk through all of this stepped forward. "You don't think- ah, you do! You are thinking of the Pirate King, a completely different person than our queen here." He patted Elizabeth on the shoulder twice then ran his hand down her sleeve to wipe off some liquor he spilled. She pulled away from him and Will frowned his way, but Sora had to keep from laughing with his own fiancé.
"So you know who the Pirate King is?" Sanji called over to the pirate.
"Of course," Jack replied and swung his arms out to the sides. "Who in the world does not know the name, Gold Roger?" His voice was sarcastic but the looks of surprise on the others' faces took him out of his act. "So you do know him, I see." He took another swig and stepped back towards his ship, The Black Pearl.
"Gold Roger is alive?" Nami whispered nervously.
"And he's taken up the mantle as Pirate King again," Sanji muttered to the woman on his right.
"Gol D. Roger," Nico Robin said in a calm voice. The others who just heard them say his name was 'Gold' looked at her funny. Killua, Rin, and Kirito looked at her and then Killua and Kirito spun back around to their captain.
Rin looked confused for another second though. "Wait, isn't Luffy's full name, Monkey D. Luffy?"
Robin nodded her head once without looking at the young man. Rin humphed and turned back to Luffy, "So are they related or something?"
She did not have a response for him. Luffy seemed satisfied that this Pirate Queen was not actually holding the title he wanted. He was more interested in what they said about Gold Roger. "He's alive?" The rubber pirate asked.
"Luffy, you did not know this?" Robin questioned, sure she had brought it up before.
He stuck a finger in his ear and twisted it around, thinking back on something Ace told him the night they parted ways. "Huh? Guess I'll have to kick his ass if I wanna become the Pirate King."
"Sure about that Luffy? Apparently he fought on par with Whitebeard," Sanji spoke up. As one who had actually seen what Whitebeard could do, Luffy gulped, but he grinned anyway and nodded his head. Sanji lit up a smoke wondering what type of crew Roger had with him on this world, and how powerful a fighter he would have to take on in their eventual battle.
"Hey, while you guys are here," Sora began to his old friends. "How much farther is it to the coast?"
"Are you sure you want to go to Aebrith?" Will questioned the younger boy.
"We like to stay on the water," Elizabeth began, looking closer at Sora, "because the continent is so dangerous we couldn't survive there."
Sora opened his mouth to respond, but he heard laughter before he could. He looked between Elizabeth and Will to the more drunken pirate who stepped forward and looked at the woman on his right skeptically. "Do I need remind you who you're talking to?" Jack glanced over at Will and then back at the Pirate Queen. "Look at 'im," he pointed back at Sora who grinned wide. Jack saw the goofy smile and laughed, "See, he's got this."
Jack turned back to Sora and pointed out to the east. "In a day or three, you'll run ashore."
"Thanks Jack," Sora told the pirate. The boy with spiky brown hair looked around at his friends who he met all on the same world and he smiled brightly. "It was really good seeing all of you again. I am happy you're all okay."
Will nodded and Elizabeth stepped forward as she looked at Sora. She shook her head and said, "I can't believe you're really Sora. You have become much more mature, even if it only has been a few years for you." As she mentioned it, most of the crew members of the ship Sora was traveling on looked over at him confusedly and like they had questions. Sora scratched the back of his head and nodded, thanking Elizabeth for that.
The pirate alliance did not stay for much longer, though Sora did tell them he hoped to see them again soon. His old friends said goodbye and particularly said that it was nice to meet Kairi, before sailing away, or for Will, diving down into the ocean. Many on the Thousand Sunny relaxed now that the tense interaction was finally over, but a few of them kept discerning looks on their faces and they were all aimed at the same person.
Sora watched the Black Pearl sail off next to Mrs. Turner's until they were far away and he turned around. Sora felt nervous as he looked around and he saw people all looking at him with the same gazes. "What?" He asked.
"The Pirate Queen," Rin began. The half demon looked out over the sea and then turned back to Sora. "She said you looked like you only aged a little."
Sora opened his mouth as he came up with something fast, but Sanji spoke up now too. "And Will," Sora spun to the blond man who continued. "He said it had been at least six years since you last met. But he also said you only looked a few years older."
"Well, about that," Sora started.
"Actually," Gray cut in. "You were the one who asked the question in the first place," he realized. "Why would you ask that?"
"Did you expect them to have spent more time than you-"
"I don't understand-"
"Tell us-"
Sora turned and looked across the main deck at a silver haired teen a few inches taller than him. Riku nodded at Sora and the younger boy sighed loudly, getting the others to quiet down. "Alright," Sora said. He nodded his head once and lifted his gaze so that he was looking at the majority of the people on the ship as they were mostly in front of him. "I'll tell you, why I asked that."
The others asking him questions quieted down and all looked at the teen wondering what he would tell them. Killua and Ben glanced at each other nervously as they thought about what they overheard in Atlantis, and Kirito had kept quiet the whole time the others complained, just like Luffy did. Kairi smiled reassuringly at her fiancé and Sora felt a little better upon seeing it. "Before we came to Nexus," Sora began, "Riku and I, we were stuck somewhere."
"Somewhere?" Natsu muttered at him from the railing on his left where he was leaning against.
Sora nodded his head and he kept a smile on his face though the words coming out of his mouth were far from being pleasant. "Time passed differently outside the place than inside. Inside, we could not tell when days passed, as there was no such thing as a sun, no light at all. This place, is known as the Realm of Darkness." A few of the others started sweating while Riku just grimaced and looked behind him out over the sea. It looked just like the sea in that place, going on forever.
The younger of the two continued, "We were trapped there, in a world without light, for…" Sora did not know how to finish his sentence. "Like I said, there, time was… strange."
"They were gone for a long time," Kairi said, making many of the others look back to the auburn haired girl who had a sad look on her face despite the smile trying to hide it.
"Yeah," Sora muttered. He stopped talking and the others all seemed appeased by his answer. A few of them said things to him like they were sorry he had to go through that, or apologized for prying, but Sora waved them off like it was nothing. He stepped up to the port side of the ship and looked out over the sea just like Riku was doing on the starboard side. Natsu looked at the brown haired teen near him whose expression he could never read.
Sora just stared out into the distance at the red sky over the horizon. On the shore of that dark world, when we reached the point we could walk no further, we thought it was over. "We'll be the darkness," that's what Riku and I agreed on. We sat there. We accepted it. I was okay with how things were, and how we would never be able to escape. But then, that bright light shone through the darkness, and, and then he… Sora shook his head and a soft smile appeared on his face to replace his troubled look. And then I was on Nexus.
Forever Kingdom
"How are you not nervous?" Charmcaster whispered at her sister who was leisurely watching her servants repair the walls of her new hall. Dreamcaster sat back on her throne and smirked at her little sister's question, only infuriating the weaker witch more. Charmcaster walked around the front of Dreamcaster's chair so that her sister had to look at her while she was talking. "Any moment now, the Emperor is going to send a Sith Lord to come kill us and take back his island."
"You really think a Sith Lord is stronger than your older sis?" Dreamcaster asked in a feigned-hurt voice. The woman wore a new long purple cloak that reached past her feet and had black lines on the sides of it from the bottom all the way up to her long sleeves and down those as well. She had on a golden crown she forced her scientists to craft for her, covered with beautiful gemstones of all colors of the rainbow. "Ha! These islands are my Kingdom now. I know everything that happens on this island at all times."
Charmcaster lost her nervous look a little. Dreamcaster grinned at her sister's appeased expression and she continued, "If a Sith had arrived on the island I would know. So for now, don't worry. We're safe."
"I wouldn't necessarily say that," another woman's voice said near the door. The two witch sisters near the throne looked over in confusion, wondering which of Dreamcaster's subjects would interrupt their conversation like that. Two men in armor who were standing near the door spun towards each other in shock, almost like neither one of them had noticed that there was now a young woman standing in between them. She had green hair in a bob around her head, long bangs stopping just above her eyes, and two strange blue crosses sticking out the top of her head pointed different directions out of her hair. She had a skimpy white tank top on, but it was underneath a coat with a fur hood at the top that was currently down bunched up around the back of her neck.
Dreamcaster got up out of her throne as her soldiers pointed their weapons at this woman. "What do you mean?" Dreamcaster asked, her eyes narrowing and her lips dropping into a deep frown. Her sister looked a lot more nervous, but since Charmcaster was taking it seriously she was ready with her hand inside her magical bag at her side, prepared to attack at any second. "Who are you?"
The girl near the door looked, bored. "Brandish," she mumbled in response, while looking around at the destruction of the room and wondering what caused it. She looked back at the other young women, scratched her left wrist with her right hand, and said in a hesitant voice, "I'm not all that against a kingdom ruled by women for a change." She shrugged her shoulders and lowered her arms back to her sides. "But, High Lord Spriggan commanded me to follow the Emperor's orders, and he told me to take care of you all."
What this woman was saying made both guards pointing glowing spears at her take steps back and their weapons to start shaking. Charmcaster's hand trembled inside her magic bag, her face was sweating more every second, and Dreamcaster finally snapped. Dreamcaster lifted her right hand and yelled, "I will destroy you! Remarsus Inte-" the start of her incantation was all that came out of her mouth before she was silenced.
A lone ship passing by the north side of the Forever Kingdom had only a dozen figures on it. The sail of the Neo Marines was a testament to the man who used to lead them, a man who died not long ago and whose death caused the disbandment of their entire Navy. "Z-sensei," Ain whispered, the girl with dark blue hair staring off the bow of her ship and into the distance. The small crew they managed to keep with them were rushing around keeping the ship sailing straight, and Binz stood at the helm behind her with his hands on the wheel.
Ain looked far to the west and she thought, What are we supposed to do now? What would you want us to do Z-sensei? Ain's deep, life-deciding thoughts were derailed as she spotted something out the left corner of her left eye. She heard a gasp behind her and Binz dropped his arms from the wheel in absolute shock. Ain turned as did every member of her crew and they looked towards the islands on their left side. The giant squid-shaped island and the small one on the east side of it were gone. There was only one thing in the ocean to their port side, and that was a green haired woman standing on top of some small rocks in the middle of the sea.
Brandish looked down at the tiny rocks just barely sticking out of the water. She stared at the minuscule broken castle on a small rock behind her, and then at a tiny village on one of the inlets extending off of the main part she was standing on. "Sorry," she said, in an unapologetic voice. She lifted her head and looked around, muttering under her breath yet loud enough that every terrified person on the shrunken island below her feet could hear the giantess's words. "Hopefully a big wave doesn't come around this area," she said with a shrug, then leapt up in the air fifty feet.
Ain and Binz spun around and looked towards the middle of their bow where this woman landed. She scared them out of their wits and neither Marine could say a word. Brandish walked over to the railing on the starboard side and she leaned back against it. She turned her head to Binz who was the closest one to the wheel, and in a bored tone she said, "Take me back to the coast. Preferably one of the Emperor's port cities." She pulled out a nail file and started doing her nails right there on the starboard side of the ship. Brandish completely ignored the other people on the ship after telling them where she needed to go, but they needed no further directions or incentive to listen. They did what she said without asking a single question, and turned their ship around.
A/N Forever Kingdom goes down for good! Brandish is from Fairy Tail (more recently in the manga, sorry if y'all have only watched it). The pirates from Pirates in the Caribbean appear and what a surprise Sora knows them too. We find out when Sora and Riku got sent to Nexus on their own timeline as I don't know if I've ever explained that before. Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter! Leave me a review telling me what you think. Thank you for all the reviews last chapter, and I have class in ten minutes that I have to rush to or I would do the responses below. I'll answer any questions in them in the next chapter! Well, 'till next time!