The Butterfly Effect

3.- Whitebeard

I hope you like the chapter and remember that English is not my native language. If you see that something is wrong, do not hesitate to correct me so I can improve.

Upon regaining consciousness, long before she even had a chance to open her eyes, Sakura sensed a hand moving on her leg. Her body reacted instinctively, and she quickly withdrew her leg, her eyes flickering open to find the same blond-haired man she had encountered just before losing consciousness. He appeared taken aback, a tray held in one hand, while the other, previously resting on her leg, was now free.

"You woke up earlier," he said surprised.

He couldn't say anything else, Sakura didn't give him time. The leg that she quickly moved away went to her chest. The boy and the tray fell to the floor. Wasting no time, she got up from the bed, ignoring the shrill pains throughout her body that nearly blinded her as she stood up. She took a few steps until she noticed two nurses who were just as surprised as she was, her mind couldn't process what these two women were doing here.

"Relax, my name is Marco" said the blond carefully after standing on the ground "We were just trying to help, you're in the medical area of the whitebeard pirates."

Pirates! She already had enough of them, she was not going to be sold again. As the boy approached her, Sakura swung her still-cuffed fists over the man's face, the cuffs smacking Marco squarely in the face knocking him back, this time holding his nose which began to spurt of blood.

Taking advantage of the moment, she ran to the exit, breaking down the door until her shoulder collided with the hallway wall. She grunted in pain.

There were a couple of pirates in the corridor who turned towards the source of the noise, finding a girl leaning against the wall and the door smashed on the floor.

'These must be pirates too' she thought to herself frustrated.

She lasted a few seconds against the wall before she caught her breath again and ran to the side of the two pirates.

"Stop her!" yelled the blond who leaned out of the room.

The two men immediately went after her, as both pirates yelled at more people passing by or in their rooms and poked their heads out at the noise. Once they realized they were chasing a girl in bathrobes they followed the others.

Sakura ran through the halls dodging, knocking out, and jumping people with only one thing on her mind: escape from this ship. More and more pirates were after her trying to stop her but luckily despite being badly injured, she was still faster. A man came out of one of the doors with a bar in his hand ready to attack, Sakura didn't stop running, rather she dropped to her knees just to the ground and leaned her torso back just as the pirate swung the bar over her head. As she passed she stole the tube, she rose in one swift movement and struck him.

With her hands constrained by the manacles and her body much weaker than she'd expected, the tube was welcome. She ran down the halls again until she finally saw a set of stairs leading up. She climbed up them and opened the door.

She reached the deck of the biggest ship she has ever seen, if it weren't for the fact that she was being chased, she would have loved to admire the ship, but this is not her case. The sounds of pirates shouting from the stairs told her that they would soon catch up with her, and to finish it off, there were more pirates on the deck. She dodged and struck several along the way until she reached the center of the ship, stopping short when she noticed several pirates seemed to be gathered, including a human five times the height of a normal adult, wearing a headscarf. Covering his head, a large white crescent-shaped mustache and his scarred torso only hung from his shoulders a white captain's jacket and some medical devices that connected to his body. Of the others around her, she only recognized this Ace guy. She very soon found herself surrounded by everyone.