A New Revolutionary ch14

  "Yeah!" Sabo greeted as he walked away, Sara beside him. "Don't forget!"

  Shanks looked confused. "About what?" he said puzzled.

  Benn facepalmed. "I'll remember," he told Sabo assuringly.

  Sabo laughed. "Okay, see ya around!"

  He and Sara walked back to Shakky's bar in silence, until in Grove 18 or so, Sara punched Sabo in the arm, in a friendly manner but none too softly.

  "Hey! What was that for?!" he asked indignantly.

  "You never told me you had brothers," Sara grinned. She had silently sat through the conversation on the matter with the purpose of learning more.

  "Uhh, I didn't?"

  "No. You told me about Goa and Gray Terminal, but you never mentioned any siblings."

  "Heh, I guess I let that slip past..."

  "So?"

  "Uh, what?"

  "Tell me about them."

  "Well..." Sabo then told her everything about Ace and Luffy, from their ages and looks to their personalities and even eating habits. He even got a little into Garp's visits and their time at Dadan's place.

  "Dragon called," she told them. "He said someone will come to get you in a few hours."

  Sabo sighed. "So soon..." he said.

  "Yeah, I think I'm gonna miss this place," Sara said longingly.

  Rayleigh came down from the rooms to the bar. "What, you're leaving?" he said disbelievingly, as he heard the last bit of the conversation when he came down the stairs.

  "In a few hours, yeah," Sabo said.

  But Rayleigh grinned. "A few hours, eh?" he said thoughtfully, then he clapped his hands once. "Then I guess we have time for one final training session!"

  Sabo and Sara perked up at this and beamed. "Yeah!" they exclaimed.

  "Mind if i come with you?" Shakky asked. "I haven't been to any of your training sessions, after all."

  "You never asked," Rayleigh said to his defense. "But yeah, you can come."

  Sabo and Sara started running out the door, but Shakky grabbed their arms.

  "Not in your new clothes!" she scolded and dragged them back inside. They went upstairs and came back in more training-appropriate clothes. Then they grabbed their weapons and they all headed for the training grounds.

  *****

  Four hours later, Sabo and Sara came back covered in sweat and grime, but still grinning. Rayleigh and Shakky were walking a few yards behind them. Sabo reached the bar and opened the door, but he froze. Sara tried to walk past him, but he put an arm in front of her protectively.

  "Hey, what's wrong?" she murmured.

  "The door was open," Sabo whispered back.

  "So?"

  "Shakky locked it before we left."

  Sara gave him a meaningful look and he nodded. "Act normal," he said.

  They both entered the building in a casual manner, but they had their hands on their weapons. They looked around the bar area, but no one was there.

  "My, have you grown up," a female voice said from the kitchen.

  Startled, Sabo took a fighting stance with his staff and Sara pulled an arrow seemingly out of nowhere and notched it, but they quickly lowered their weapons when they saw who the person was - a woman who looked exactly like Shakky but with elbow-length wavy hair.

  "Shinju!" Sabo and Sara exclaimed happily.

  "Hey guys! How've you been doing?" the weaponsmaster replied cheerfully, ignoring their previous battle stance.

  Rayleigh and Shakky entered the bar. Upon seeing Shinju, Shakky's eyes widened. "Shinju," she said simply.

  Shinju seemed as suprised as the other. "Shakky," she said disbelievingly.

  For a moment, there was an awkward atmosphere, until the sisters laughed heartily and hugged.

  "I didn't know you were here!" Shinju said, breaking the hug. "I thought only Rayleigh-san lived here until I saw the name of the place! You live toghether?" She asked suspiciously.

  "Well, yeah, actually..." Shakky whispered something in her sister's ear, and she giggled girlishly. Sabo and Sara thought it weird, because Shinju could be many things, but definitely not girly.

  "I always knew you liked older guys," she replied.

  "Oi, oi," Rayleigh interrupted. "If you wanna talk about me, do it behind my back," he said jokingly.

  They laughed, and Shinju addressed Rayleigh. "Nice to meet ya," she offered her hand and Rayleigh shook it. Then she went to Sara. "Hey, you've been training all this time, right?"

  "Yeah, every day," she replied.

  "But I don't see any quiver with you! Where did you get the arrows from?"

  "Oh, that!" Sara took out a paper from her pocket and unfolded it to reveal its great size. It was about three square feet, and both sides of it were covered in a pattern of identical, three-inch, drawn-to-scale arrows. She peeled out one of them and enlarged it with her devil fruit power.

  "Wow, ain't that useful," Shinju said admiringly. "So when you use them, you just swat them with the paper and they get back in it?"

  "Yep," Sara said. "When I go to the new world, I'll get it done in a Vivre Card."

  "That's a pretty good idea," the weaponsmaster said.

  Shinju stayed at the bar for a while talking to Rayleigh and Shakky. In about thirty minutes, during which Sabo and Sara cleaned up and changed back to their new clothes, she stood up and said, "Well, we've got to get going."

  "Of course," Shakky said smiling. "Gotta get back to your dear Dragon."

  "What are you talking about?" Shinju said in the most neutral tone she could achieve. "Dragon-taisa is my leader and friend - our relationship is purely platonic." This convinced Sabo and Sara, but Shakky wouldn't be fooled, for a minuscule blush crept to the weaponsmaster's face, unnoticed by anyone but her sister.

  "Well then, I wish you good luck," Shakky gave her a hug. "Let's meet again."

  "Of course!" she replied. She walked outside the door, followed by Sabo and Sara.

  "And you guys! Make sure to come back!" Rayleigh called after them.

  "Every time possible!" Sabo yelled back. "Bye!"

  "Thanks for everything!" Sara also yelled.

  Then the bar disappeared from view.

  *****

  "No way!" Sara said disbelievingly as she neared the coast.

  "Is that...?" Sabo said.

  "Yep, that's our ship!" Shinju said happily. The younger revolutionaries ran towards the ship docked in Grove 24.

  "It's the Dragon Boat!" Sara exclaimed as she jumped on board.

  "Well, that's not its name, but I guess you could call it that."

  "Damn, this ship brings so many memories," Sabo said longingly.

  Indeed it was meaningful to both of them. It was the ship where Sabo had been rescued, and where he got his Bo staff. It was where his first battle took place. It was with that ship that they had found Sara and invited her to be a revolutionary. And they hadn't seen it for at least two years.

  "You brought it here by yourself?" Sara asked.

  "Yep," Shinju said. "I was hoping you'd help me navigate it." She grinned at them.

  "Of course!" Sabo said happily. "Let's set sail!"

  Soon enough, they raised the anchor and lowered the sails, heading for the headquarters. But then two Marine warships intercepted them.

  Shinju was the one steering, so she asked, "Should I take care of them?"

  "No, leave them to us," Sabo said mischievously. He and Sara got ready to jump on the ships when they passed by them.

  "Might I suggest that Sara stays here and shoots down the ones at the cannons?" Shinju said.

  "Oh, that's better than what I had in mind," Sara said.

  "Hey Sara, now might be a good time to give you this." Shinju tossed a small object to Sara. She grabbed it and found out that it was some sort of glove, reinforced at the thumb and index finger, specially made for archers.

  "Jeez, thatnks Shinju!" she said happily and put it on her left hand.

  One of the warships stopped several yards in front of them, and the other came to drift beside them. Sabo jumped on the one beside them and Sara took her place at the dragon figurehead of the boat. She pulled the arrows out of her pocket and started sniping down the marines on the boat in front of them, starting with the ones in charge of the cannons. Her Haki reinforced her shots, making her arrows so powerful that they went straight through the marines' body parts.

  Sabo also had some powerful Haki, being able to knock out several marines with the same hit and foreseeing and dodging every attack they sent him. Then he slightly adjusted the ship's course.

  When Sara was done with the cannons, she shot one arrow to the wheel of the warship purposefully without Haki so that the wheel turned and the ship veered out of their course, into the other ship. Sabo jumped back to their own boat.

  "So, to Baltigo?" he said casually.

  Shinju laughed. "Yeah, let's go."