𝓐𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵 𝓸𝓯 𝓓𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱 💀 (𝓞𝓷𝓮 𝓟𝓲𝓮𝓬𝓮 𝓧 𝓞𝓒) 𝓞𝓝𝓖𝓞𝓘𝓝𝓖

Chapter 1: How it Began

"Push!"

The screams of labour echoed the dimly lit room as Lily D. Mae continued to push. She was a beautiful young woman with long sand brown hair with her bangs slightly covering her neon blue eyes. Her outfit consisted of a long white dress that reached to her knees and was barefoot. Tears streamed down her pale cheeks from the pain, she couldn't push anymore.

"I can't," Mae cried in pain, "Where's Lucian?"

"Mae, just one last push," Fletch assured, "the baby's almost here."

Fletch was a tall man with light orange hair and yellow eyes looking towards Mae while looking down to see the baby. His outfit was a red button down top, black pants and shoes.

Mae wiped her tears away nodding then gave one last push. Mae felt herself getting exhausted as the sound of a baby crying was fading in and out.

"Mae...Mae...," a faint voice reverberated, "Mae, please wake up!"

The voice grew louder as Mae slowly gained consciousness. She heard the sound of a baby crying then her eyes bolted open. Mae looked to Fletch who was holding the newborn in his arms snugged in a warm pink blanket.

"Congratulations Mae," Fletch smiled warmly, "it's a beautiful baby girl."

Mae's eyes widen from the news. Fletch handed her the newborn; once in the arms of her mother, the baby stopped crying. Mae looked down at her newborn daughter, crying tears of joy. She couldn't believe it. This was her daughter. The baby had beautiful milky brown skin but her eyes remained closed as she peacefully slept.

"Kira," Mae whispered.

Fletch looked up at Mae with a confused look on his face, "Kira?"

"Yes," Mae nodded, "it's the name that Lucian and I agreed upon if our baby was born a girl. Tigress D. Kira."

"What if she was born a boy," Fletch chuckled.

Mae looked to Fletch with annoyance in her eyes but with a soft smile, "Loick."

"Huh," Fletch chuckled to himself, "well, Lucian should be back by now along with the others, can't be here for too long."

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Someone from outside was banging on the door trying to bust it down.

"Dammit," Fletch growled, "they know we're here."

After a few more bangs, the door broke down and in the doorway, stood Akainu, who was a Vice Admiral at the time. He looked to Fletch who had his dagger on him, then over at the exhausted Mae who was cradling Kira protecting her. Fletch lunged his dagger at Akainu, but he was too quick as he was now face-to-face with Mae. Kira began to cry as Mae shielded her from the Vice Admiral.

"What do you want," Mae quaked, her voice weak from childbirth.

"I finally found you," Akainu growled in a intimidating tone.

Akainu grabbed Mae by the throat and hoisted her, with the newborn still clutched in her arms, from the ground then...

SNAP!

Mae's body became a ragdoll as it limped. She was dead, still clutching Kira in her dead arms. Akainu looked to the crying newborn and reached for her.

"STOP," a voice yelled.

Akainu stopped then focused his attention on who was behind him from the doorway. His eyes widen from whom he saw, it was Tigress D. Lucian. Lucian had unkempt jet black hair that slightly covered his intense black eyes with a look of anger on his face. His outfit consisted of a black cloak on top of his gray button down shirt, pants and black shoes.

"If it isn't my old friend," Akainu sneered, "Lucian."

"Drop my daughter now," Lucian growled.

Akainu turned his attention to Mae's lifeless body whom he still has a firm grip by the neck.

"Try telling that to your whore," he snarled.

Lucian turned his attention to Mae, whom was still held by the neck but was now limp. Her light sand brown hair covered her once beautiful neon blue eyes while holding Kira in her arms. Something inside Lucian began to stir as anger took over. He looked to Akainu and a sudden blast of energy erupted in the room. Lucian had an intimidating look in his eyes which paralyzed Akainu in fear. It wasn't much to hold him down but at least it was enough to give Lucian time. Lucian swooped in and grabbed Kira and Mae before Akainu had a chance to move then lept back over to where Fletch was standing.

"Move out," Lucian ordered, "we need to report back before he could attack us."

Fletch nodded as he dropped a bomb in the room then quickly fled leaving Akainu behind.

BOOM!

The abandoned house exploded from behind as Lucian and Fletch fled with the newborn Kira and the now deceased Mae. As the duo ran out of the abandoned village, they managed to catch up with Ivankov who was with Dragon. Fletch and Lucian were both out of breath as they looked up at them.

Ivankov, who was disguised as a woman, glanced at Lucian who was holding his deceased wife in his left arm and his newborn daughter in his right arm. Silent weeps could be heard from Lucian as he wept over the death of Mae.

"Who is that," Ivankov questioned.

"Akainu...found and killed my wife...," Lucian cried, "she's gone."

Ivankov had a look of shock on his face when he noticed Kira on his right who began to cry. Ivankov came up to Lucian and gently grabbed Mae's lifeless corpse in his arms then looked at Kira.

"Is that," he asked.

Lucian nodded, tears still streaming down his cheeks, "It's our daughter, Kira."

Kira stopped crying, opened her eyes, and looked up at her father who was crying. She had the same neon blue eyes as her mother Mae. Lucian looked down at Kira who cooed at him. He smiled softly cradling her in his arms.

"She has her mother's eyes," Lucian sniffled.

Fletch placed his hand on Lucian's shoulder trying to comfort him.

"I'm so sorry for your loss," Fletch apologized.

Dragon came over to Lucian who was still in deep mourning over the loss of his wife.

"My condolences for your loss," Dragon assured, "She will be greatly missed. We need to regroup with the others."

"Yes sir," Lucian replied.

A few days had gone by and the Revolutionary Army prepared a proper funeral for Mae honouring her for her contributions and were ready to bury her. Mae was dressed in a white dress that she once wore on her wedding day with a white bracelet on her left wrist that was given to her by Lucian. The coffin was beautifully crafted and was lined with white roses which were Mae's favourite flower. Sobs and soft crying could be heard in the crowd as one by one the members placed white roses on Mae's coffin. After the funeral, Fletch came up to Lucian who was sitting kneeling at his wife's tombstone with Kira in his arms.

"We should get going," Fletch advised.

Lucian had his hair combed down where it touched past his shoulders and had a black suit on.

"Mae," Lucian assured, "I promise that I will protect our daughter with every fiber of my being. Whatever she may become one day, she will make you proud."

Lucian got up then looked to Fletch with a look of determination.

"Let's head out."

*Sorry this chapter was short, but I wanted to give a bit of a backstory about Kira before going into the actual story. Hope you enjoy it and there will be periods I will edit my writings even after publishing. Until then.

~Morella Voltaire