HAPPY SINGLE AWARENESS DAY!!! OOPS.. I MEAN.. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!! ❤

A/N: OKAAAY SOO THIS IS A 'GUIDE' FOR THOSE WHO WILL BE REREADING. IMAGINE THAT I'M SOMEWHAT LIKE YOUR LITTLE HELPING WIZARD (MINUS THE ROBES AND ALL JUST THE REGULAR CLOTHES :P) ON WITH THE GUIDE!!

MAIN CHANGES:
∆ THERE'S A NEW CHARACTER HERE
∆ ADDED SOME DETAILS ABOUT SHANE'S STAY INSIDE THE SHIP

HERE'S LE CHAP!!（＾＿－）≡★

"You know where to go." The cloaked man said as he headed towards the largest ship at the center of two mid sized ones.

Raze and Kana nodded at each other before they bolted for each of their sea floating vessels.

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"Raise the sails!! The Marines are in pursuit!!" Raze shouted as he leaped into the air and landed with a hard thud on one of the ships that were docked through the island's eastern region.

"Hai Raze-sama!!" The crew answered in accordance as they went about their tasks.

There were thousands of men on the ship. Some were skinny as if they were raised to be scarecrows. Others looked like they were stuffed with Sea Kings' blubbers. Still others were the regular pirates we all know too well.

Rotten teeth, patch covered eyes, the stenched breath, you name them. But it's true that looks can be deceiving. No matter how tall or short they are, no matter how many teeth they may still have, and no matter if they possess two eyes, one or none at all, each of them were shaped and carved for battle. They all believed that they were destined to sail the seas.

"Open the prisoner cell!" Raze commanded two of the men as he walked towards a thick wooden door by the side of the deck.

As the towering ingress opened, he spoke in a low tone that was barely audible but clearly caught the attention of the small girl slumped on his shoulders. "We'll be fetching a high price for this one."

With that, Shane tried to wriggle out of the tattoed man's hold as he gripped hard on her hair.

"Let me go!!" She cried out as she felt every strand being pulled away from their roots.

"Raze-sama! The Marines lost pursuit on our ship!!" A man on top of the ship's mast announced as he gave a one toothed smile.

"Excellent work men!!" Raze laughed, together with the chorus of mirthful laughter from his crewmates, as he continued to dangle Shane by her hair within his iron grip.

"I'm sorry..." Raze said sarcastically as he raised Shane within his eye level. "..what were you saying little girl?"

"My name.." She began as a fierce expression fathomed upon her face. "..is Dracule Shane!" the girl declared as she managed to land a single punch across her captor's jaw.

"And I said. Let. Me. Go." She spat out every word as she ignored the throbbing sensation on her hand while she kept it positioned in a fist on her side.

Everyone was dead silent as they stared at the girl that dared to fight against their second in command. No one else in this ship would even dare to touch this beast. All who did ended up getting thrown over board or met with the blade of this merciless man.

"Ouch." Raze said mockingly breaking the silence as he tossed Shane inside the cobble stone covered cell.

"You're lucky the Captain made specific instructions for you.." Raze said as he eyed the girl lying on the floor.

"Though.. I would commend you for you courage.. it still wouldn't be enough to save you from this hell." He said with a malignant laugh as he turned around and slammed the door shut letting the deafening sound of consecutive locks click through the other side as the man's heavy footsteps grew farther away.

~

It was dark and damp inside the four sided room. There were shackles and chains that were hanging through the walls by rusty loose screws.

Almost everything was blocked out by the door that was twice the size of an average one, except for the white rays of moonlight that came from the small steel bars above Shane's reach.

Traces of dried blood were evident through the stone flooring as Shane stumbled on one corner of the room and tried her best not to shed a tear as the sight of that thick red goo reminded her of that certain traumatic experience.

That blood..

'Obey me.'

... was as crimson as the eyes of that cloaked man.

The steel..

'Kill them all..'

...smelled like the very metal she held.

And her hands...

'Shane... Why..?!'

... trembled as the memory of her brother's questioning eyes filled with hurt and betrayal rose from the debts of her mind.

Everything she had vanished right before her eyes not because of some pirate.. but because of her very own hands.

She killed them.. and it's true that anyone can say that she's a monster.. that her brother will see her as a monster. It looked that way..

Words will spread out and she'll be known as a ruthless killer in their village. The cold blooded murderer who ended her very own bloodline.

She'll be known as the girl who gave death to the persons who gave her life. And nothing could change that. Except...

"If they knew the truth behind it all." Shane spoke out in a cracked voice as she closed her tear filled eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Hoping that somehow the pain will subside even if it's just for a moment.. because she knew that she'll have to carry on this burden for as long as she lives. She just needs to learn to accept that fact.

~

*click*

'Nani?' Shane asked as she held up her hand to cover her eyes from the radiant rays of the morning sun coming from a box shaped hole below the door.

'A hatch?' Shane thought to herself as she went closer towards the door. 'Why haven't I seen this before?'

Shane noticed two small hands quickly slip in a metal cup and a small tray of food. She couldn't see who it was since the figure was too small to be seen from above but too big to be seen from below.

As she stood up to approach the door, fast thundering footsteps echoed through the deck which seemed to scare the figure behind the door.

"Wait! Why-- Who are you?!" Shane called out from the small opening and tried to sneak a peek of the little running risk taker but ended up getting the diminutive wooden door closed shut right through her face.

"Tch... again?!" Raze's low profound voice spoke out as his physique overshadowed her once more through the tight metal bar aperture. "Eat up. I wouldn't want another rotting body on this ship."

With that Raze decided to take his leave.

~

"Oi!! Stop!! Raze-sama will kill me!!" A scrappy voiced man shouted from afar as a sandwich wrapped inside a small tied up sack was thrown inside Shane's cell together with some water inside a knotted plastic bag.

"Arigatou!!" Shane exclaimed as she opened the sack and found a small note at the bottom that had the word 'Ronan' written on it.

'Ronan? Is that his name?' Shane thought to herself as she ate some of the rationed bread and drank a bit of water that was supposed to be her meal for the whole day. 'I like it.'

It's been this way for the pass five consecutive days. Her food would either be slingshotted from above. A quick throw in. Or, if lucky, slipped in through the hatch below.

Her prison chamber 'had' been guarded by different crew members each hour. They took turns.. but they eventually stopped. Maybe it's because they grew tired of the whole routine of guarding a girl from a mysterious food deliverer.

|NEXT DAY|

It was a cold afternoon in the ship and still no food came. Shane felt her stomach grumbling as if it was trying to digest her own insides but she can deal with it. The only thing that kept bothering her was..

'Did they catch him?' Shane anticipated worriedly as she thought of the possible things they could have done to the young lad.

1, Lock him up? This is a large ship after all. There should be more than one cell for prisoners. ¯\_ (•︿•) _/¯

2. Throw him off board? They're in the open sea.. that's definitely a possibility. \(°ロ°)ゞ

3. Roast him to death? Where would they get fire from? Slash that.

4, Skin him alive? Raze might actually do that.. o (≧σ≦)o

There were a lot of things going through Shane's mind until panicked shouts were heard throughout the ship over and over again.

"MARINES!! MARINES!!!"

"What's the commotion all about?!!" Raze asked irritably as he went up to the ship's deck.

"Sir the Marines-" A crew member tried to explain but then he saw Raze's eyes widen as he spotted three Marine ships that were heading towards them.

"Everyone go to your battle stations!! We should protect the Captain's ship at all costs!!" Raze commanded as he headed for the ship's wheel.

Broad colossal cannons were then aimed and loaded as their stolen ornamented swords hanged through their waistbands while they held their guns in an arm's length.

Sweat trickled down their foreheads as they waited for Raze's signal as he turned the ship sideways so that they'll serve as a barrier while their Captain's ship sails forth.

After all.. they were just pawns in his game.

"FIRE!!" Raze adjured as the ship was positioned to a stop.

The boisterous roaring sounds of erupting cannons kept on echoing through the entire ship's proximity as they fired at one of the Marine's ships.

"Bull's eye!! Not so bad eh mate?" A brown haired man cheered as his manuvered cannon ball went through one of their enemy ships that started to get swallowed up by the majestic deep blue sea.

"Yea- aaahh!! Take cover!!!" His side by side confederate shouted as he stumbled upon the deck and hid behind the crates as the other Marine ships countered their attack and proceeded to open fire.

Crashing sounds of fiberglass windows, sake filled barrels and thick wooden crates kept on ringing inside their ears as their ship was being pummeled flat by those heavy metal ball projectiles.

Several cold motionless bodies were scattered through the ship's deck as the others struggled to go about their orders.

During the Marine's continuous onslaught, fire went ablaze as one of the ship's mast broke down in half which greatly damaged the ship's very structure.

~

"Aaah!!" The shaking impact of each explosion sent shivers down Shane's spine as she scurried at the edge of the room to steady herself by the now heated walls.

"Let me out of here!!!" She cried out as suffocating puffs of smoke began entering her cell through the open bars.

Shane hurriedly stumbled towards the door as the ship rocked back and forth. Her fists ached as she slammed them over and over against the huge rigid door hoping that someone will acknowledge her plea.

~

"Sir!! The Captain's ship is currently out of range!!" A bald man announced as he calculated the distance of their Captain's ship from their location. "Our ship needs to be repaired!! Fire-"

"No.. The Marine's are still in pursuit. We couldn't risk the Cap-" Raze countered but was cut off by a series of blaring cannon fire from the ship that went pass them and proceeded to cover their ship entirely up front.

"Got the little blaze under control?" Kana asked rather ironically as she stood on top of her ship's bow with one katana on hand and a gun on the other.

"Ha ha ha. Very funny." Raze replied sarcastically as he glanced over his blazing ship.

Clearly not caring on how many casualties they've encountered, he proceeded to turn their ship to face the upcoming Marines.

"Sir!! This ship couldn't take any more damages.. if we do, we might sink to our deaths!!!" Another panicking crew member informed Raze as if their almighty-ship-of-blazing-fire was not yet a clear reason for that.

"You should listen to him you know. Your ship's pretty wrecked up. There's an island nearby north of here. Dock there. We'll catch up." Kana announced as her ship sailed forth and proceeded to fight off the remaining Marine ships.

"Fine.." Raze muttered to himself with knitted eyebrows as he turned the ship and headed for the nearby island.

~

"Fire at them all you've got!! We shall not lose this fight!!!" Kana proclaimed as cannon balls clashed and clamored upon their pursuing adversaries.

Ceaseless gunfires emanated from both fleets. Either machine operated or mainly the manual hand held combat. They seemed equally trained. Equally fit for combat. It was as if they were fighting with themselves.

"SMOKE BOMB!!!" A man hollered as the silver metal explosive crash landed on their ship and brought out the blinding white essence throughout their massive sea floating vessel.

"Tch." Kana spat out as she squinted her eyes in the hopes of seeing better through the thick nebula of blinding exhaust.

With no progress whatsoever she decided to ask the watcher assigned in the crows nest. "Anything from up there?!"

"Um.. There's blue liquid everywhere, white farts scattered around the area and.. a rubber ducky on the move!!!" A crazy looking man with a huge build called out from above as he clapped his hands in excitement.

It was actually quite ironic to see someone like him, which is all beefy and muscely, to act all childish in a life and death situation such as this but hey.. anything can happen in the open sea.

"WHO THE HELL PLACED 'HIM' THERE?!" Kana demanded as she walked pass her frightened confederates and decided to go up the mast to see for herself what her 'acting lookout' was referring to.

As the blonde female reached the top mast, she understood what her subordinate was trying to hint at. It was not just some 'blue liquid', it was the vast sea. Not 'white fart' , as he said, but the smoke bomb and the 'rubber ducky' that was moving was actually..

"Raze!" Kana gasped as she slid down the mast hurriedly. "We need to take out that enemy ship and set sail for the northern island!! Now!!!"

"But Kana-sama!! We couldn't see a thing in this fog!!" Someone skeptically reasoned out.

"Yes.. We can't see anything right now.. but Raze and his men might not see the world forever!! This fog will eventually be blown out!! The wind is in our favor and we have tons of firepower in store!! So what odds are there against us?!"

~

"The island is about 500 meters from this very point Raze-sama. The ship's not that intact but it'll reach the shore." Their trusted navigator reported as he stood beside Raze.

The others, however, passed on pails, jars, barrels and other containers of all shapes and sizes filled with sea water to lessen the possibility of the ship to suddenly combust in flames but somehow things just keep on getting worse by the second.

"Get down!!!" Raze roared hysterically as soon as he saw the armed conducted artillery from the Marine ship that was growing hot on their tails.

~

Strong ghastly tremors beleaguered along the ship's premises as bursting fire bombs rained through their drastically abysmal ship.

The once small minor singes magnified into large howling flames that mercilessly seized the ship entirely. Burning hues of red flickered all throughout the ship as the crew slowly broke apart.

Some jumped into the sea while others climbed over the mast. There were those who were running and those who were smoldering in fire.

As they reached the shore, Raze remained still for a moment as he watched his once glorious ship crumble right before his eyes. He kept on hearing wails and ear splitting screams coming from the inside. And so before all hope was lost.. he rammed himself through the door and raced through the sizzling fire.

~

"Is anyone there?! Please!! Open the door!!!" Shane cried out as she coughed and struggled to breathe in for air.

Her vision was somewhat becoming altered as her screaming lungs flared by the growing heat that surrounded her enclosed stone dungeon.

'No.. air..' The girl slammed her foot in frustration through the small hatch which generated a small crack over the side. 'That's it!'

Shane pounded her foot repeatedly over the miniature hatch door until it went loose. She eventually tried to squeeze herself out of the tight narrow passage but ended up getting stuck by her hips.

Then a resonant noise came from inside the room. And judging from the intense torrid feeling she could sense beneath her feet, it seems like the ceiling collapsed and brought a few flammables into the party.

With the newly found discovery, Shane squirmed and used her hands to pull herself up from her 'situation' but still there wasn't any progress. She was feeling weaker every second as smoke completely entered her system. She felt as if the very fire was burning within her.

As if things couldn't get any worst, her hazel brown eyes widened as she saw the ship's second mast start falling towards her small helpless figure.

"Please.. help...me.." Shane breathed out as she saw a distorted figure land right in front of her and slice the tremendous mast through the middle which landed on each side of the young girl's trapped body.

Shane couldn't make out the face of her savior but she did hear a faint voice.

"You're safe now." It said as Shane lost consciousness.

A/N: I'M SO SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG!! MY LIFE'S BEEN BUSY BECAUSE OF SCHOOL.. －(>口＜-)

AND AS YOU CAN SEE THE CHAPTERS ARE GETTING LONGER NOW. CHAPTER 1 WAS FREAKING 31 PAGES!!! (THROUGH MY PHONE) AND THIS ONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LONGER. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? ⊙０⊙

BUT SINCE I REACHED ABOUT 3000+ WORDS I DECIDED TO CUT IT OFF AND JUST PLACE THE OTHER DETAILS ON THE NEXT CHAPTER TO NOT MAKE IT TOO LONG.. YEP.. FINALLY FORCED FINISH IT TODAY SO...

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P.S. IF THERE WERE ANY GRAMMATICAL ERRORS AND STUFF.. I'LL JUST CHECK ON THEM SOME OTHER TIME (MAYBE TOMORROW) CUZ I'M SLEEPEH..