piratejournal | ♥ 001

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[Flowing, almost archaic script starts to inundate the page.]

Dearest Brother,

I do not know if you will ever receive this letter. All I know is that I have been spirited away to this dastardly, horrid, menacing, troubling, and mysterious place known as Isla Empieza. I am very much afraid – who knows what the people here would do to a young maiden such as myself? Oh, oh, my dearest brother, my virtue is at stake – you must come at once! If I die here, I will come back to haunt you and you will never hear the end of it, so I suggest that you come and fetch me at this very moment! One such man asked me my name, and I threw him off the dock. I am truly helpless, waif-like, and defenseless, and I need your aid!

Please, also let my darling fiance Ranma-sama know that I am longing for him. I will simply not entertain thoughts of any other until I find myself in his arms once more. I know how he grieves, but console him, my dearest sibling. How he must pine for me – it is unthinkable.

Brother, I will put this letter in a bottle and hope that it reaches you. I will perhaps ask a turtle to bear it for me. When you receive this, please come and rescue me!

Love,
The Star of Hope of the Gymnast World
The Black Rose
Your Beloved Sister
Kodachi

[voice]

[Some time later . . .]

I can't rip the page out! I've been trying for hours! It just . . . flies back into the journal . . . !!! Magic exists, but only to taunt me! The fates are against me! I'll never be rescued now!

[Cue shrieks, wails, and sobs. When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.]

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Leanne's not gonna kill you. She's really nice. [don't you know that? geeze]

Not her, you dumbass! It's Marco that'll kill me! He thinks I'm some kind of bad--

--Anyway, shut it! I'm not lookin' to swing that way with my crew!

Ehhhh? Really? [huh. Ace you are weird.] You wanna swing that way with my crew? Kai is looking for someone...or maybe Bepo. [that could be fun.]

Nah, she's stuck-up.

[A long pause.]

...Now, I'm just hungry.

Hey! She's not stuck up anywhere! She's just kind of annoying! [sheesh] You can date Keimi. She's fun. Or Leanne! She's fun, too!

Keimi's a mermaid and I just told you about Leanne. Luffy, stop it!

I already yelled at Marco and Selphie about it! I'm not tryin' to do that whole dating thing anymore!

So what if she's a mermaid? [he forgot he'd just been asking about Leanne... But more importantly]

But Ace, dating is fun. [and he's worried about you because you should be able to date, too] Why don't you wanna do it?

...Oi. Luffy, I'm not in the right state of mind for a talk like this.

[That muffled sentence came from Ace's Face in his Hands.com.]

It's okay to be shy. You'll get a date one day. [he's sure about it]

Luffyyyyyy. Don't go sayin' things that're gonna rain down fiery punishment on you!

What did I say?! [oh crap! Looks around instinctively for Nami]

Your big brother isn't shy! He's just smarter than you!

Oh. shishishi Okay. Just have fun, Ace. You can have fun even as a captain.

I'm having plenty of fun! Who says I'm not!?

Hehh really? [dubious] If you say so.

Don't give me your doubtful voice! I know when you're rolling your eyes!

[Okay, one phrase makes her worried.]

Why would Marco kill you?

[Ace was definitely still Ace.]

Ssshhh! Leanne isn't supposed to know!

[SLAMS THE BOOK SHUT.]

Know wh-

[Book is slammed shut and now confused heron is confused. But also worried now about her captain.]