Post by Mr. Moon on Oct 12, 2021 3:10:50 GMT -5
Bella #1
Loguetown, the city of beginning and at the same time, the city of the end. Place, where the King of Pirates was born and when he was executed by the navy decades later. For many people, it was a symbol of freedom and hope, for Bella just another dead-end.
It has already been several weeks since she helped Ryu, the tiger-man pirate, to escape prison, only for him to disappear on the next island. She didn't blame him for that, not anymore. It was a good lesson for her that taught her not to believe everyone just because they were nice to her once. Valuable lesson, that someone like her, who spent most of her life isolated from the society at large obviously needed.
And so she was alone, again. Lost in a world that was too big for her, looking for a man she saw for the last time when she was just a small kid. She had no idea where she could find him and so was moving from island to island in a desperate attempt to find some clues. Attempt, that didn't work that well for her so far. She wasn't giving up, of course, but thought appeared in her mind, that perhaps Eric wasn't in the East Blue anymore. That was why she traveled to this crossroad between East Blue and the Grand Line because if anywhere she could find any information about him, it was there.
And so, there she was. Fifteen years old girl, armed with a long and slender sword, walking through the city with a photograph of a wild and dangerous-looking young man in her hands, walking from inn to inn and asking about the possible whereabouts of her brother, Eric Irongate, without any success. Only once she got a feeling that she picked someone's interest, but when she asked directly, that person, a large guy with a face of career boxer and short brown hair claimed he never saw Eric in his whole life and promptly disappeared right afterward, which was odd, but not really helpful as far as she was concerned.