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

Part 10: Save Them

I didn't know what to think. I was ready to cry and I was sore from the hugging. Thinking out loud I mentioned "I need some air here guys." They gave me some breathing space and then it suddenly hit me that we left others behind.

"We need to go back," I said. "There's a chance we could save the others from dying too."

Kureha scoffed, "We have to escape at all costs. I really only fight if absolutely needed to. Plus you're my patient now and I won't allow you to leave until you can move freely with little to no pain.

I was frustrated. Those people trusted me and I abandoned them. One of my brothers died because of me. Brook took my hand which I hadn't realized was clenched. I took a deep breath and looked around the room to see pretty much everyone else in the room disastified with leaving the others behind. So I put my head in my hands and sighed. It seemed like the decision was up to me. My choice wasn't an easy one. The sun began to set. Must not have been too long after the wedding. "Fine. We'll go to safety with everyone that got out on the ship. I need to take it easy right now though." I said with a sigh. Everyone left the room to leave me in peace.

Brook's Point of View...
I knew her too well to know she wouldn't give up so easily. She was planning something. Derek became a dragon and flew off when we left the room. I waited until nightfall at last busying myself before I went back to the room and saw Sparhawk climbing out the window onto Derek's back heavily armed.

"You're not stopping us." She said. "We're not too far off and there still could be survivors from the fighting if it's over already."

I shake my head. "You think after all this time and all you've done for me I'd let you do something so reckless on your own? Even if you have Derek with you? I'm just as upset about this as you and as long as Derek doesn't fly too crazy I'll be fine." I retorted.

So we snuck back to the island to see if we could bring anyone back. It was not a pretty sight. Most people had been driven from their homes, some houses burnt down, among other things. It made me sad to see anyone treated so poorly but Derek and Sparhawk pushed on. Sparhawk whispered, "We don't want to leave you behind if we're going to save them."

We eventually made it to the castle. Most of the people patrolling wore Germa uniforms. Lucky for us though we had the home field advantage of knowing the castle better, and without worrying about too many people at the moment.

We manage to sneak to the servants quarters and see some familiar faces. The cook, Bertha, that stubbornly fed Derek when he was in the dungeon. There was also Gerome, the Captain of the guards that helped raised and train Sparhawk and Derek when they were very young. They along with a couple others were surprised to see us back so soon. Bertha hugged then hit Derek in the face going on that he was a fool to bring us back.

Sparhawk stepped in after Bertha ranted a bit more and said,"I apologize but it was my idea not Derek's. The 3 of us are here to get whoever we could out and making sure that Germa didn't get a hold of the secrets of the island. Also we would need all of your help getting past the Germa soldiers. Either as a distraction, only if you are up for it of course, or getting us disguises to pose as servants, passing the message on to the others."

There was some debate but it was quickly resolved. They agreed that they'd get us servants clothing while Sparhawk changed our skeletal structures so we'd appear a bit different. We also needed to change our hair styles. Sparhawk wore a long dark brown wig and sunglasses to hide her eye colour. Derek used some old coffee to dye his bright red and green hair very dark, then tied it up. While though it took some effort we got my hair tied into a braid. Took a lot of hair pins, hair ties, and hairspray to keep it together. It wasn't that fun.

We soon got the first part of the plan into motion. The servants that were assisting us helped us to eavesdrop on the queen and King Tullius. They were discussing what to do next since Sparhawk had gotten away with some of her allies and how their deal would continue.

They started talking about the information about the Ancient Kingdom along with the ancient weapon Uranus. This shocked me and I almost spilt the tea I was serving them. Sparhawk quickly helped and we apologized deeply saying this was our first day working here and that it would never happen again.

Soon they weren't paying much mind to us anymore and continued on about day to day like the weather until we left the room. As we were walking down the hall I started whispering to Sparhawk that some of the secrets of the island had to at least do with the Ancient weapon Uranus.

"It does." She whispered. "I'm also the key to using it. There's an old legend that Uranus can only be used by a unique Princess who can speak with animals. In most cases it's a dragon that she's close to. Dragons have been basically hunted to extinction despite being hard to kill and long lived. So when my mother heard there was a dragon on the island while she was in the last days of her pregnancy with me she had her and the man protecting her killed. Those were Derek's parents. He was hidden well in a bush in his dragon egg so he was spared. Then the day I was born I opened my eyes and they were purple. That's probably why they wanted me. Also since my father said if I was born a girl he'd kill my brothers. So my mother sent me with Gerome to be killed but he couldn't do it. He brought me to a polar bear that had lost her cubs recently. There Derek had been newly hatched that same day. He helped me be accepted by Icy the polar bear and she raised us with Gerome til her death when we were 2 and a half. You're the first person I've told that to. Mostly because I didn't want you involved in something like this."

"Luckily enough my older brothers made a certain set of tasks that you need 3 different people minimum to get through to the information and the weapon. Certain parts of it are DNA specific. So not just anyone can access it. I'll tell you more when there's time for it. For now we have to try to get the others out of here and regroup." She said.

We then make our way down to the dungeons to give the guards their dinner so we can snag their keys then knock them out. Then we set all the people who helped us free and start sneaking out the secret passageways in 2 groups. Eventually we meet back up at the docks to see in the distance the ship they we were on not that long ago in flames. Behind us was Germa soldiers ready to fight and there was no way Derek could carry us all on his back.