Chapter-2 Racism

“So, I’m leaving for the HQ now, take care of yourself.” Grandpa was biding his farewells to me before he went to navy HQ, navy HQ is a place which is situated at group of island in Pacific Ocean, even with a high speed navy battle ship it takes around 5 days to reach HQ from Skies Island.

“Yeah, don’t worry about me, and just get going already.” –Me

“I know that, but don’t do anything funny, like kicking asses of some idiots.” –Grandpa.

“Yeah, you don’t need to worry about that, I’m going to Aunt Jenny place.” –Me

“Aunt Jenny, oh so you are going to Tiffany place.”-Grandpa.

“Yeah, so what?” -Me

“You, don’t need to be shy or hide anything, if you want to go out with that girl then do so, I would love to see my Great Grandchildren as soon as possible, ahh huh aahh.” –Grandpa.

“What are you saying you idiotic old geezer.” I again yelled at him, this old man really get on my nerves, he search for every possible reason to goof around and test my patience.

“What was that you brat, what is wrong with an old man like to wish for some grandchildren.” –Grandpa.

"I don’t know, but don’t say things like this in public.” –Me

“Ok, ok I won’t say it again, now let me go for my job.”-Grandpa.

I hugged my grandpa and like this we both took, our leave.

The Skies Island is a really small place with nice ocean currents throughout, which makes the climate here pleasant; it is situated in Pacific Ocean, I was brought here after my parents death, my grandfather took me here, since I was not born on this land so my features are a lot discrete from the others who live here, live my black hair and brown eyes, everyone on this Island have light brown hair or golden hair, though some have same color of eyes as me but majority here have blue eyes, so these features of mine make me unique, but uniqueness is not always good, not only that this hair color of mine is considered as a bad omen here, but black color the color of pirates, evil and crimes, and when you are son of an infamous pirate you are been seen as someone unwanted, all people sees me as I’m some kind of monster, an entity who shouldn’t exist, someone who very presence can brought calamity to this place.

The kids playing on the narrow streets of the town, women buying the groceries from those old stalls, old men taking a walk around the temple grounds, all of them ignore me, but still in this cruel land there are some people who don’t look to me like that, and that would be aunt Jenny and her daughter Tiffany, aunt jenny was childhood friend of my mother so she treats me like her own son, she runs a Inn on the island, named Crystal Inn, which is the only inn on the island, so they quite often runs into the weird guys, government official and pirates or bandits.

I entered the Inn which Aunt jenny runs with her husband Uncle Joseph and went to counter, in hope to meet aunt jenny, but it looks like my luck is with me instead of aunt jenny I ran into Tiffany, Tiffany is my childhood friend we both have been together since we were kids and now we both are 19 year old, tiffany is a beautiful girl with long silky golden hair, her beautiful green eyes looks like a diamond sparkling, she is undoubtedly the most beautiful girl on this island, a guy with all normal features like me should consider myself lucky that Tiffany even talks to me.

“Hey, tiffany.” I went to the counter and started flirting with her.

“Ohh Arran, can you help at bar, we are short of staff.”- Tiffany, who was already worried ask me to help her out with bar, right off the bat.

“Hey, is this the way you should treat a guest.” I started teasing her like I always do, her reactions, her expression are cute whenever I did that.

She beat me on my arm gently and said “Hey, don’t joke it’s serious we are out of staff today, there are a lots of drunk perverts there who knows what they do with a young, beautiful, fragile girl like me.”

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“Ok, enough with the blackmail, I will do it.” I agreed to her without making any argument at all, sometimes I fell that I get easily played by her, I easily say yes to anything she says, I’m not at all immune to her.

Without any questions, I simply went to the bar and started attending the customers on the counter.

The bar which Tiffany family runs is like any normal bar, everything here from mugs to tables, from flooring to celling all are made up of wood.

This old bar which tiffany father runs, her father is middle aged man, he is one of few people who talks to me normally, for some reason he is not present in the bar, was passed down through their lineage from generations, my only wish is that, I could inherit this bar of her family.

It always smelled of the mixed beers and other alcohol drinks which I simply hated, the smell of alcohol is something which I couldn’t get used to even after working here for three years I am still a teetotaler, same goes for Tiffany she never enters the bar because of this ridiculous smell, there was an incident a year ago when there were suddenly too many of the customers Tiffany came to help but after vomiting three times she fell unconscious and then never entered the bar again.

While I was helping out in the bar, a strange men came to the counter, the man had fair complexion and blonde hair, he was muscular and well dressed, the strange thing about him was, that I have never seen him before, at top of that that luxurious suit which he was wearing is something which no one on this island can afford to wear, the beautiful red coat which was rounded around his chest, the gold pendent which he was wearing, and even the beautiful platinum ring with  a precious yellow stone, all seemed to flashy and expensive at the same time.

“Sir, how can I help you?” I asked the man.

“Do you people have Mc flarco.” he asked me.

“Yes sir, we have Mc flarco.” I replied.

“Great, then bring me one and kid give the whole bottle to me, I like to drink it straight.” The man asked me, his way of speaking was also not like that of people here, plus Mc flarco is an expensive vine which people hardly order here.

I brought him the bottle and handed over to him, the same time a different customer arrived at the counter and I started attending him, that very instant I saw something coming straight towards me, I tried to block it with my hands, I brought my right hand in front of my face, which received an impact from a bottle of wine, the bottle was hit so hard that, it shattered into the pieces as soon as it came to contact with my hand, I felt some pieces of glasses stuck to face while a steam of alcohol ejaculated on me.

“You got nice reaction time boy.” The man called me, the man who ordered the bottle of Mc flarco was standing near me. He was holding a smashed bottle of alcohol in his right hand; he also held a pistol in his left hand which was pointing towards me.

“What, is meaning of this?” I asked him, I kept my voice low, even though I was pissed at him.

“I’m Captain Roger from Imperial Navy I’m here to arrest you.” The man replied to me.

What the he is in Imperial Navy, so why is he arresting me, I haven’t done anything wrong, so why?

“Can I know what crime I have committed sir.” I inquired him.

“Crime, being son of an infamous pirate, isn’t that enough to get you arrested” –Captain Roger.

The fuck he is saying, being son of a pirate is a crime, I spoke in my mind.

‘Don’t dare to act smart, if you do something funny, I won’t hesitate to shoot you scum, if you wish for your betterment, don’t resist at all and come with me.” – Captain Roger

I who was being stuck in a hopeless situation decided to submit myself, it made much more sense for me to submit myself, I haven’ done anything, I would be easily released later on when grandpa returns.

The man, who gave his name as captain roger, handcuffed me and took me to the jail.