Ooooo... Skie-Chan just wrote a new (AND FRIEKIEN ADORABLE) chapter for Psycho on the Going Merry. So... for her, I'm actually writing this story! Merry Christmas, Skie!
Chapter Four
"You have to dress UP for this, Luffy." Ia yelled at Luffy, who was wearing his normal attire.
"But we're just eating?"
"No... it's called a Rehearsal Dinner!" She shouted, getting frustrated.
"We practice eating?" he asked.
BAM!
Skie peaked her head into the door of the guys' room where Luffy's head was a pancake and Ia was fuming in her new dress just for this occasion. It was a sleeveless deep red dress that closely fitted her torso and then fell like silk to the floor. Her hair was up in a bun, done by Nami, and she had on a diamond necklace with the seven diamonds going down in a curve and no earrings. Nothing matched the necklace she was wearing. Her red hair and dress matched in colour.
Skie was wearing, by choice (amazingly!), a gold coloured dress with embroidered beads in fancy designs all over the dress. Her dress only went to her knees and she was wearing burgundy flipflops. Her hair was down. No jewelry except the earrings she never took out. Yet she was still very pretty in the dress.
"Something wrong?" Ia asked, looking as if Luffy wasn't there.
"No... no." Skie said, uncertain if it was true or not.
"You sure?" Ia asked, by habit, going through Skie's thoughts.
"Yes," she said firmly, just to get Ia out of her head. She knew she was in there, somewhere. "Whatever your looking for isn't there, you know." Skie said.
"Oh, I figured that out a while ago. Your head is so interesting!" Ia said and Skie covered her ears.
They both sat down on the couch.
"He loves you, you know." Ia said slowly. They were both staring straight forward.
"Ian?"
"No!? Zoro."
Skie was about to say something, but realized that she had nothing to say.
"Didn't know that, didjya?"
Skie shook her head.
"What are you going to do?"
"Marry Ian." Skie said.
Ia stared strangly at Skie. "Really?" she asked.
"Yes. I love him-"
"But what about Zoro?" Ia interjected quickly.
"What about him? He loves me. But I don't love him back." she said simply.
Ia stood up quickly, angrily. "Are you kidding me right now? You have no feelings like that for him? You were always talking about how much it sucked not being with him anymore. You know it's your fault for the bad relationship, you do know that, don't you!" Ia shouted. Skie didn't say anything. She just sat there, which made Ia extremely angry.
"SAY SOMETHING!"
"There's nothing to say, but why are you telling me this now?"
"It had to be done. Just be happy I'm not telling you right before your wedding. Or right after... or during, for that matter." Ia said.
Skie said nothing as Ia left the room, and come back quickly and took Luffy from the room by the scruff of his neck.
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The next morning, Skie woke very early. She laid in bed for the next hour, thinking, until Ia threw a water bottle at her, screaming about waking up sometime soon.
It took the combined efforts of Nami and Ia to get Skie into her new dress.
Skie stared at herself in the mirror as Nami did her hair.
"Skie. Wear this." Ia said, handing Skie her diamond necklace with the seven diamonds.
"Really? But it's yours?"
"Take it. For today. I will get it back tonight." Ia said sternly and Skie could tell she was still a little mad about the whole she doesn't share feelings for Zoro thing.
Over in the guys' room...
Sanji and Ian were already in their tuxes and admiring themselves in the mirror. Luffy was in an actual suit, looking nice, and Usopp and Zoro were in nice clothes, too.
Zoro was acting like his normal self today. Ia had told him everything that had happened last night with her and Skie and he looked fine, but on the inside, he was almost there. He still felt like a semi ran over his heart, though.
There was a knock at the door and Nami's voice was heard yelling, "Are you guys ready yet?"
"Almost, Nami-Swan!" Sanji called back and they could hear her walking off.
Up on deck was a little archway of ice that Ia was in the mids of creating. It was smooth and had little intricate designs that she had Usopp doing with an ice pick, seeing as he was a good artist.
"How are you coming along?" she asked as she froze the last bit of the arch.
"Fine. Almost done..." he said as he finished a fancy looking heart.
"Alright, finish that up, I gotta go see the bride and groom." Ia said, stepping off her little stool and rolling out the white carpet and making sure that everything was perfect with her mind, she left the upper deck and went down below to find Skie and Ian.
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Ia found Ian first, he was sitting on his hammock.
"You ok?" Ia asked as she walked into the empty room except for Ian.
"Yeah. I'm fine. Just mulling over my old life." he said.
"How's your dad gonna take this?" Ia asked.
"Dunno!" Ian said and laughed a little.
"Don't worry! You'll be fine! Now get up on deck, I'll get Skie!"
Ian left and Ia sighed and went down to Nami's room where Skie was twirling around in her wedding gown.
"Excited!" Ia said as she walked in.
"Very!" she said and ran over but stopped and asked, "Who's giving me away?"
"I've got that covered! Don't worry!" Ia said and she and Skie went up to the deck.
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Ia had taught Nami how to play the wedding march on Ia's flute, so when the time was right, Nami started playing.
Sanji and Ia walked down the white carpet towards the rest of the crew. They looked so cute together, with Ia in her purple dress and Sanji in his tux. They separated when they got to the arch and down the carpet was Skie and Zoro. Ia had Zoro give Skie away.
Ian was smiling as Skie walked down the aisle, as if everybody else wern't there. Skie smiled back in the same way but was thinking about Zoro.
They stopped when they reached the arch of ice that Ia and Usopp so painstakingly worked on that morning (it hadn't begun to melt just yet) and they stared into each other's eyes.
Then Skie reached up and kissed Zoro lightly on the cheek that Ian couldn't see and whispered into his ear, "Roses."
She then turned to Ian and walked up to him and where Luffy was standing.
Zoro felt as if he'd been slapped but then sat down quickly, almost forgetting he was at Skie's wedding.
Luffy recited what Ia was saying to him in her mind, for the fact that Luffy forgot, again.
"Do you, Ian, take Skie as your lawfully wedded wife. To have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for richer for poor, for as long as you both shall live?"
"I do." Ian said, smiling so much now.
"And do you, Skie, take Ian as your lawfully wedded husband. To have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for richer for poor, for as long as you both shall live?"
"I do!" Skie said, smiling just as much as Ian.
"By the power invested in my by Ia's mind, I now pronounce you Man and Wife, you may now kiss the bride!" Luffy said and looked at Ia who was nodding her head in approval.
He smiled as Ian and Skie kisses for the first time as Man and Wife.
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The meal was delicious, of course, and after that, they partied out on deck till it was midnight.
Around 11:30 that night, Ia stopped dancing and walked over to where Zoro was leaning up against the wall, drinking.
"What did she say to you?" Ia asked, moving slightly to the music.
"What?" Zoro growled.
"Everybody standing behind you saw that she said something to you (they were all thinking about it) and you were trying to figure it out all during the ceremony."
"How would you know? You were telling Luffy what to say?"
"Yeah... about that... I realized I stopped when he was looking at me for approval. You were trying to figure out what she ment by 'Roses.'" Ia said.
Zoro didn't say anything, but grunted.
"Idiot." Ia said and stalked off. They were now, again, at the stage of where they were before all of this happened. Crew Members who Hated Each Other.
"Freak." he said to himself as she left but she stopped suddenly and Zoro felt himself flying through the air towards the mast.
He hit it, head first, and slid down to the deck. Right at Ian and Skie's feet.
"Zoro, are you ok?" Skie asked, almost in a mocking tone.
He didn't say anything but ran after Ia, who was sitting on the railing infront of the kitchen door. Sipping on her drink and smiling smugly.
"Are you still going to be mean to Zoro?" Ian asked as he held Skie close.
"Sure! Why not?" Skie laughed.
Ian looked at her.
"What? It's just how I am, Ian. Is that ok?"
He sighed. "Try not to be too mean, kay?"
"Ok!" she said and they kissed.
Oh... my God? It's done? Don't be to upset, you who are crying! I'm not gone forever! Damn, you who are crying...
REVIEW! THIS IS FOR SKIE, FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!
I don't Wanna be In Love- Good Charlot
Life in the Fast Lane- The Eagles
The Wedding Song- from Corps Bride
Pirates Who Don't Do Anything- Reliant K
12-26-07