A Bird's Journey - A One Piece Fan Fiction About Soul King Brook (Hiatus)

Part 1: Right Back At It

Mysterious Man's Point of View...
He stared at the 2 of them frozen there for some time. He wondered what they'd do with the weapons they're armed with. The girl holds a pair of scimtars scared but a determined look in her eyes. The younger boy had trouble keeping the long sword in his hands balanced looked even more scared but ready to fight if need be. He looked back to the girl. Takes another look at her eyes and sees they had the same purple eyes as him and some of his siblings. He told her if you're going to walk around outside your castle girl hide your eyes they aren't a normal colour.

Sparhawk's Point of View...
The man commented about her eyes. Who was this pirate to judge her when he had the same eye colour? She sneered at him, "Why do you care? You're eyes are exposed and the same colour as mine?" As she lunged at him. He dodged fairly easily with only a stratch on his hand. Brook was prepared to start fighting some of the others since most of the crew were either sleeping or tied up at the moment when the man told them to stand down, before then saying, "Is that how you and your friend treat you're older brothers?"

Me and Brook stopped shocked. "Prove it then," I spat at him. "I won't believe just anything."

"Since the eyes or any of our looks are enough here's something for you here." He tossed me a brooch with a slightly altered crest with markings signifying a first born.

"You are a pirate you could have killed him and taken it from him." I replied.

"Would just any old pirate know that if you have the key and open it just right it has a secret compartment?" He retorted. As he took it back he opened it to reveal a picture of all 12 brothers and their parents happy together.

"That looks like younger versions of my parents. There's 12 boys in the picture with them you look like one of them. The one over near the mast looks like another one. It is possible that the 2 of you are 2 of my older brothers. But then my next question would be where's the other 10 of you? Or having all 12 of you together is just too convenient?" I sassed at him.

"We have our own lives and went our separate ways after we fled from home 5 years ago." He stated. "All of us were together at the start for several months just having fun traveling. But there were places we wanted to visit without all of us agreeing on where to go. We just wanted to experience different things at the same time. So we all just kinda scattered. Why did you need all 12 of us anyway? Also what's you and your friend's name anyway?"

"It is going to take time to fully trust you. My name I prefer to go by is Sparhawk and this is Brook my friend. We came to find you because our mother threatened my life and the people I care about most." She said curtly.

"Well I guess we should tell you more about us and what everyone's specialty is. For the ones not here we can show you their bounty posters. The 3 similar looking ones with brown hair blue eyes are the triplets. They're the 3rd through 5th sons. In order Coot (lost left arm in a fight but excellent cook), Daniel (scars from fighting snow leopards across chest and blacksmith), then Eder (really shy but loud and obnoxious when need be, also the ship's navigator) all have their quirks. Eder is the one you noticed over by the mast earlier. Then there's the twins Fulmar (bright red hair and was one of the ships shipwrights) and Godwall (green hair and the helmsman (both have purple eyes with gold flecks). They're the 6th and 7th sons. Here comes Benjamin or Blue Jay as we sometimes call him. He's 2nd oldest and the ship's doctor. I'm Arrow. The oldest and the Captain. Now Honey (dirty blonde hair, black eyes, scientist), Iceland (light blue hair, black eyes, lookout), Jackdaw (blonde hair, grey eyes, historian), Kestrel, and Lapwing are probably just sleeping somewhere on the ship. We'll help you with mother if you deal with dear old dad he was going to kill us when you were born. The only ones we need to get are Coot, Daniel, Fulmar, Godwall, Honey, Iceland, and Jackdaw. Fulmar and Godwall are on an island not too far from here, but it's pretty dangerous to get to. Outsiders aren't normally welcome there either." Arrow said. "Stay with us a while too so we can get to know each other before going back. We'll teach you some of the stuff we know too."

"You're family is pretty weird and crazy." Brook stated. "But it's kinda nice."

"Yeah, I get that. We'll stay but you have to at least teach us the basics of handling a ship. As well as rounding up the others." I raised an eyebrow at the man calling himself Arrow. "Deal." said Arrow.

So for the next year they learned how to sail a ship, Sparhawk learned some blacksmithing skills (once they picked up Daniel), Brook did what he could to help out, and everyone was enjoying themselves.

Meanwhile...

During the time they were separated Derek was thrown in the dungeon for torturing by the queen who wanted to know the whereabouts of her daughter. She tortured him however she could but gave up because of how often he could turn into that thing. The Captain of the guards and the head chef of the castle kept him company often because they hated see him suffer so.

Back to the siblings...
Brook's Point of View...

Things were going great. Everyone was getting along. I would come up with songs to keep their spirits up but would often felt ignored because Sparhawk spent so much time with her brothers during the year. Soon we would go back to free Derek and reunite the whole family. I wished that I could remember my parents faces but it just wasn't possible. Though I knew that I had to be there for Sparhawk whenever possible. It was hard not to care for her that much.

Sparhawk's Point of View...
They went back to the island and were welcomed back with open arms. I slowed down to keep Brook company because it was hard not to notice that he had been feeling lonely lately. The 2 of us talked all the back to the castle; when I noticed some weird flowers that I thought Brook might like and picked 12. Then suddenly my brothers turned into crows.

I heard a raspy whisper tell me, "Don't speak a word for 7 years and all will be well." Right before everything went black.