Battle with Marines: Right against Wrong
Jurabi: Thank you all for your support and here's the next chapter.When she got to the front entrance, Colleen heard voices. Curious to know what they were talking about, she decided to stay in the hall and eavesdrop.
"I said it once, I'll say it thousands of more times if I have to!" Satako yelled. "I won't leave this island! Now let the hostages go!"
"Too bad," said a man in black. "And here I thought that you'll join if I take them with me. But I guess you don't care if I do that, do you?"
"Of course I care about them! That's why I'm demanding you to let them go!"
"Or what? This island lacks fighters. And even if there are some fighters like you on this island, they'll be no match against the Marines. You yourself are one of us, Satako, so you should come back."
"If you are truelly a Marine, why would you force me to join you?! I told you many times why I won't return to my duties! My family is known to be the best doctors for generation here on this island. If I leave here, who will treat these people?!"
"I see. So you're saying, that if there is no one living on this island, then you and you're family will come with us. Is that it?" the man in black asked.
"Wait. Haxel, you wouldn't dare!" Satako yelled, knowing what the guy in black, now known as Haxel, was thinking.
"Oh, but I do. Men, kill every last villagers on this island! Starting with this hospital!"
Colleen anger began to rise as she heard the bull coming from the Marine in black. "Oh...I want to kick his ass so bad...!" She thought in rage.
"LIKE HELL WE WILL!" a marine soldier shouted, snapping Colleen out of her rage. "I don't know about everyone else, but I will never harm any innocents, even if it's an order!"
"That's right!" another agreed. "What has these people done that's wrong?! If Satako doesn't want to come back with us, then we shouldn't force him to!"
Having enough of the backtalk, Haxel, unhesitantly, killed the two that spoke against his order. Glaring at the rest of his soldiers, he said, "If you don't want to end up like these two, I suggest you kill everyone that resides in this dump."
Still hesitant, the Marines did as told and charged in. When they did, however, Satako took out his sword. "I won't let you go through with this! I may not be in your group but I know from being a marine that we do what it right; not to do horrible inhumane things out of fear!"
"Oh? And the doctor is also both a fighter and a motivational speaker himself, I see. I wonder where you get that from," Haxel sarcastically wondered. "Not like that matters to me. Although, having a doctor that can fight can be a great asset in my unit."
"CUT THE CRAP! I already told you that I won't leave those that needs to be treated on this island! Now leave and release the hostages!"
"Someone hold him down or I'll kill all of you," Haxel ordered and threatened. With fear, all of his underlings did as told and held him down. "I DID NOT SAY ALL I SAID SOME! Ah well, anyway Satako, I'll give you one last chance. Join us, or watch all your patients and everyone else die."
"If you want to kill everyone here, you have to go over my dead body," Satako replied.
"Suit yourself," Haxel said. "Guys, do it." At that order, about half of the Marines got off and hesitantly charged in.
"Stop..." Satako pleaded. "Don't kill them! DON'T KILL THEM! YOU'RE ALL BETTER THAN THIS!" The moment he thought that, few of the Marines were knocked out. The person that knocked them out, was none other than Colleen.
"You want to kill the other patients, you have to go through me!" she said.
"You! We searched this entire ocean perimeter for you after last night!" Haxel shouted.
"Oh, its you. Haxorus..." Colleen said.
"HAXEL YOU IDIOT!" Haxel said.
Satako was confused, "You know him...?"
"We caught that girl trying to steal our food from our storage. We went through hell trying to get that meat you ate up!" Haxel shouted.
"Well I was hungry..." Colleen said, "I bet you are too...for an asskicking sandwich."
"Colleen! What are you doing?! You're in no condition to fight right now!" Satako yelled.
Colleen started cracking her knuckles, "Hehe, I'd rather fight than to just lie down and rest! I owe you my life, Satako. And for that, I'll repay my debt here and now!" Colleen argued.
Hearing that she'll fight against an army, Haxel laughed. "Hahahahahaha! You...fight against an army...of Marines?! I'd like to see you try. Get her or I'll get you!" At that command, half of the Marines got off of Satako and charged at Colleen.
Surprisingly, Colleen managed to hold them off by performing fast close combat strikes, dodges, and counterattacks. As more Marines charged at her, she easily blocked their attacks and counterattacked. Despite how hard she's battling, she's also trying not to kill any of those men, for they were only forced to attack her and the other citizens. After she knocked them all out, Colleen pointed at the commanding Marine.
"I appreciate the warm up, but I want you! Not the men you're throwing at me!" she asked.
"I admit, you prove yourself to be a fighter," Haxel simply complimented. "However, you're no match against me or my powers." When he said that his body was slowly covered in black fur. He was getting a little taller, a tail came out and his eyes were like a panther's. In fact, he's exactly like a panther. "I ate the Cat Cat Fruit, Model Panther. It's thanks to this power that I easily earned the position of captain in my unit. I hope you're ready, girl. No one has ever seen my powers and lives to tell it, unless if they're Marines, of course."
"...That's cute, furball." Colleen simply not the slightest bit concerned.
That last word made Haxel twitch and drop his jaws. Not just him, everyone in the room also dropped their jaws at the insult.
"Th... that foolish girl!" Satako thought. "Calling Haxel that is the last thing she should do!"
"You dare call me that?" the said Marine muttered. "You will definitely PAY FOR THAT!" The instant he shouted that, he charged at Colleen, attempting to kill her.
When Colleen saw this, she quickly blocked him. Once she blocked him, she then saw his claws closing in on her. Before the claws could hit her, Colleen backflipped out of the way. When her back touched the wall, she tried to look for some kind of opening so she won't get hit by Haxel's next attack.
"This place is too cramped for a fight like this," she thought. "Especially if there's a lot of people here." The moment she thought that, she had an idea. She then scanned the area for the front door and found it right next to her. "Why am I standing here then?!" she asked herself.
"DIE GIRL!" Haxel yelled, charging at Colleen, with his claws ready to kill her. At the last second, Colleen dodge-rolled out of the way and ran out through the front.
"You missed, hairball!" she provoked, running off into the village.
Hearing that insult made Haxel even more angry. "YOU ARE SO DEAD!" he yelled, chasing after her. He then turned to his men and ordered them to not kill the patients yet, for their first target is Colleen.
In the village, Colleen kept running away. While running, she scanned the area to see if there's a large area that has very little to no people nearby. The only place she saw that is low-populated, is the docks. When she arrived at the said place, she skidded to a stop and faced Haxel, who also stopped in his tracks.
"So, you decided to die here," he assumed. "Well, it will be a bother to bury you when you die. I don't see any reason why I won't let you go to the bottom of the ocean when you die. Now that I think about it, maybe I should do the same for everyone else. If I bury them, I'll get my hands all dirty in blood. I'd rather just let them sink than to bury them."
Hearing the fact that he wouldn't spare any of the villagers, whether they are children or women or not, made Colleen really angry. Once she growled at him, she quickly scanned her surrounding, see if there are anything that explodes or something. That was when she laid her eyes onto the ocean.
"What's wrong, kitty-cat?" she asked, provoking him. "Is that all the black kitty got? I expected more from you, judging from how highly you speak about yourself. Now I'm starting to think that it was nothing but all talk. I think you really are a pussycat."
Hearing those insults made Haxel lose it, big time. "I'LL DEFINITELY KILL YOU NOW!" he shouted, charging in at her.
A seond before he charged in, Colleen was already closed her eyes and concentrated. Fire then started to form in her mouth. Catching a glimpse at how close the Marine captain currently was, she decided to wait a little bit longer. When he was close enough, Colleen aimed her mouth and yelled, "Ember!" She shot a fireball into the beast's mouth, forcing him to accidentally swallow it and got the inside of his mouth on fire.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH! FIRE! FIRE! SOMEONE GET ME WATER!" he screamed. When his eyes caught the sight of the ocean water, without a second thought, he jumped in.
"He actually fell for it..." Colleen shook her head. "That was the stupidest mistake he's ever made, especially since he's a devil fruit user. As a devil fruit user, once he gains a power from a devil fruit, he loses the ability to swim. Therefore, he's drowning."
At the last bubble, she heard some footsteps coming her way. Facing the source, she saw a few Marines coming towards her. Assuming that they'll fight her to avenge their leader's defeat, she went back into her battle position, only to have them run pass her. That was when she heard an applause. Turning to the source, she saw the other Marines, many villagers, Satako and Karina clapping and sheering for her. Some of the marines were even dancing in joy at her win.
"What's going on?" she asked. "Why are you all cheering for me? Especially the Marines. Aren't you enraged that I defeated your captain."
"Everyone hated that pantherman," A marine soldier explained. "He's been controling us using our own fear of dying."
"Colleen, thank you so much. How can I ever repay you?" Satako asked. Everyone else heard that question and wondered the same thing.
"He has a point there." "That girl saved our lives." "We should do something for her."
Hearing those words, Colleen just smiled in relief, since no one really had to die. Her happiness was ruined when she heard a cat coughing.
"Why...you..." Haxel breathed, coughing out water. "I nearly drowned."
"You should've realized that by yourself," Colleen backtalked, walking towards him. "If you really wanted to get rid of fire in your mouth, you should drink water or put something cold in your mouth. You don't jump into the ocean and gulp down the sea water. You'd drown." Before the Marine captain could say anything to him, she quickly shut him up and knocked him unconscious. As he collapsed on the floor, she then said, "That should shut you up for a while."
Seeing that the guy was completely unconscious, Some of the Marines took the pantherman into their ship and in a cell. As they walked away, Colleen started to collapse herself, only out of exhaustion. Many people noticed this and went over to help the girl. When they crowded around her, she passed out.
Colleen started to wake up after hearing voices. By the sounds of it, the owners were very worried about the girl. The voices stopped when they heard her groan.
"Hey, Satako! She's awake!" Karina exclaimed.
"It's about time she did. I was starting to doubt my skills," Satako said.
Slowly sitting up, Colleen rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. Once she was done rubbing them, she saw Satako and Karina sitting next to her bed. "What happened?" she asked, yawning.
"While we were cheering for your victory against that Haxel guy, you just passed out on us," Karina explained. "You were breathing heavily, too. Daddy did everything he could to try to have you to live again."
"Oh. I must have still been tired, after all…I haven't eaten anything." Colleen said rubbing her stomach, "Then that would mean that I have yet another debt to repay."
"Now, now Colleen. You really don't need to repay me," Satako told the raven-haired girl. "I'm only doing what a doctor was suppose to do. It's my job, after all."
"I suppose that's true," Colleen agreed. "But now I'm afraid I have to go."
"What? Where are you going?" Karina asked.
"To gather a crew of course, then I'll sail to the Grandline and find the One Piece. Just like my dad did. Then, I'll be the first Queen of the Pirates." Colleen smiled with pride.
Satako and Karina stared at Colleen with gaping mouths…then at each other and then back at her.
"The Grandline…if you're planning on going there, it'll take a lot more than just you and a few people you gather." Satako said.
"I want 10 people on my crew and no more." Colleen said.
"That's still not enough. The Grandline is more dangerous than you think. The weather…the creatures you find, plus the pirates also searching for the One Piece. It's next to impossible to survive there let alone find the One Piece." Karina said.
"That's what they said to my father, but that didn't stop him or his friends. I'm going anyways whether you agree or not."
"You are determined…" Satako stood there in thought, "Alright then, since you've help us out a bunch, I'll give you a small ship. But keep in mind that you'll need a much bigger ship in hopes of even entering the Grandline."
"Exactly. I'll also need a navigator, a cook, and a shipwright." Colleen said.
"I'll get your ship ready, just meet me at the docks when you're ready." Satako said leaving the room.
Satako provided Colleen the small boat she needed plus supplies of food and water for the journey.
"Now don't go eating all of this up in one sitting now." Satako advised.
"I'll try…though I won't be able to resist…" Colleen giggled.
The girl turned to the villagers to give one final good-bye before she left. It was hard, especially to Satako and Karina. "I'll be leaving now. I don't know when I'll be back, but I promise that I will."
"We know you would, Colleen," Satako told her.
"Just promise us that you'll be safe," Karina pleaded.
"I will," she replied. Turning to Satako and extending her hand, "Thank you for helping me when I needed it."
"Don't mention it. Be careful out there, the Grandline is no joke." Satako said.
"I'll be ready. Goodbye to all of you." Colleen then sailed away waving goodbye until Garusk Island was no longer in sight. Colleen then stared at her strawhat, "Father…my adventure begins now."
To Be Continued...
Jurabi: I hope that you enjoyed the second chapter. Please review and See ya!
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