The Siren System Pirate

The blonde-haired girl sits up in bed. Looks at herself to see she's wearing a white button up shirt with only the bottom half of the buttons closing the shirt. She looks over and next to her, sleeping, is a woman, whom the blonde-haired girl assumed was maybe in her early 30's, and she had silky smooth blue-ish purple hair.

"I must have had a little too much to drink last night," she thought to herself. "If I was sober, I would have never slept with a someone who had a hint of blue in their hair."

She quietly creeped out of the bed and put on her underwear, pants, and changed into her original shirt she was wearing when she arrived the night before. She grabbed her socks and shoes and excused herself out.

She crept onto the street outside the front door of the apartment she was in. Breathed in the air and took in the sunlight on her skin for a moment. She looked down at her feet. Low cut shoes, low-cut no-show socks now on and gray capri style trousers. She specifically looked at the intricate white mark she's had on her leg since birth. It slightly lit up and she sped off like a blur in the wind.

She ran circles around people she considered "suckers" as she dashed through the city and buildings. Once she saw someone, she would run around and study them and once she had located their money pouches, took it and moved on. She was way too fast for anyone to see her, and she took the pouches so swiftly that she would be long gone by the time they would have noticed.

She arrived at an apartment all the way across town and when she walked in, was greeted by a younger blonde-haired girl. "Thia! I missed you last night! I went grocery shopping, but you didn't come home for me to make you anything."

The girls name was Thia, and this was her younger sister Rio. Thia was 24 years old and had been caring for her younger sister since she was 16 and her sister was 9. Now, Rio is 17 and approaching adulthood. Despite caring for her sister, since Thia turned 18 and gained these speed abilities, she has no idea of what to do with them except to travel to places quickly and steal people's money. She didn't see any real future in her life other than that and making sure her little sister doesn't go a day hungry or thirsty. The time they were in poverty from when they were on their own until she gained these powers, she never wants to go back to that time again.

For her past and where she was now, three quarters of the money she stole would go to her and Rio, and the other quarter would go to Thia specifically and her drinking just to take the pain away from how depressed about her situation really was. In her state, she would shrug off most men who approached her but wouldn't ponder for a second the company of another woman, unless they had blue hair that is.

The orphanage and nobles of the area of Sharsen they lived in turned them down when they had nowhere to go. They had blue hair and since then she sees people with blue hair as just evil creatures and no right to be called human. What angered her most is that she would sometimes wait for them to leave their homes, but no matter how much she'd run circles around them, she could never find evidence of money on them to take.

Thia slouched onto the couch of their very small living room, turned on the large very pricey looking TV she had stolen from spending the night at a fancy man's home one night. He performed so poorly that she took the TV when he was sleeping as an unspoken apology for wasting her time. She began flipping through the channels aimlessly as Rio sat next to her and asked, "So how was your night?"

 Thia granted her a side eye glance and then back at the TV. She sighed and said, "It was alright, I guess."

 "Oh, that's nice," Rio said.

 Thia looked back at Rio noticing the uneasiness in her voice and saw her twiddling her thumbs. "What is it?"

"Oh... Uhh... Well, you know, my birthday is coming up and, on my way home last night I passed that tailor shop. That really expensive one, and I just saw the most beautiful white and yellow sundress in the window and was wondering-"

"You're asking for that pretty dress for your birthday and wondering if an order like that would be too expensive for us?" Thia cut her off now sitting up and leaning over to her.

Rio looked down and was blushing. "I mean, I understand if it's too much."

With Rio looking down, Thia could see her similar mark that Thia had on her leg on Rio's upper back from the looseness around the collar of the white shirt she was wearing. Thia's was white, Rio's was yellow. It's what drove her to love the color yellow and adore the color white as well for her sister. Thia adored her sister for that.

Smiling, Thia put her hand out and lifted her sisters head to look at her. She stared at her sister in her baby blue eyes and said, "No love. It's not too much. You are my darling sister, and you deserve the world! I know your birthday is a week away but how about I go out and get it for you now?"

"REALLY?" Rio exclaimed. "Are you sure?"

"Of course!" Thia said as she stood up. "Make a delicious lunch for me to come home to, okay?"

"You got it!" Rio yelled running to the kitchen.

Thia smiled until she walked out the door. "Shit. Why did I do that? I love that kid way too much to ever say no." She sighed and thought to herself again, "Wherever you are, mom and dad, we miss you, but thank you for blessing me with the best little sister a girl could ask for." Thia smiled again and pulled out her own coin pouch and counted what she had and thought, "Shit. Looks like I won't be drinking for a while. But maybe I can grab a little more coin quickly?"

At that moment she saw a red-haired man in all black walk to the apartments bulletin board and take off a few of the wanted posters hanging and new ones in their place. "That's odd," she whispered aloud.

Once he moved away, Thia was there in an instant. "Wanted: Crystaline Pirates" She read. With her powers she could see which were power users but was stopped on one particular wanted poster. "Evelyn Black. Siren." Thia thought for a second and said, "What the hell's a Siren?" She looked at her red hair in the photo but a face only a mother could love. "Well, she's a pirate so she's nothing special."

Thia rounded the corner in the way the man went and looked at him and thought, "He sure is handsome. He looks nothing like the usual guy who comes by posting on bulletins." She smiled and thought, "I mean I haven't slept with a man in a while and no blue hair is a green light for me." She smiled.

Just before he approached another bulletin, Thia blindsided him, "Hello!"

He stood his ground despite being surprised that her appearance technically popped into his view in thin air. "Hi," he replied with an awkward tone in his voice. "Can I help you?"

"Oh, I think you can. I think you really can," Thia said with a seductive tone in her voice.

The man sighed and said, "I see. Well, I'm sorry but I'm already spoken for."

Thia looked him over and said, "I don't mind a challenge. Got a name?"

"Huh," the man smiled. "Jackson," he said. "And against the woman who has my heart, there's no challenge. She only wins."

"Bold," She thought at his reply. She noticed he was eyeing the bulletin she was blocking him from and was staring directly at the one that said 'Evelyn Black'. "Seriously?" she thought. "Is that woman his-"

She immediately lost her train of thought seeing the picture. It was not that of the one she just saw earlier. This 'Evelyn Black' was not hideous. As a matter of fact, she was gorgeous.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" She said looking at it.

"Pretend you didn't see that," Jackson quickly said as her ripped it down and replaced it with the wanted poster she saw him post on the other bulletin earlier. He looked over his shoulder and said, "I suggest you keep your distance. See you around town!"

He rounded another corner, and she just kept her glance down in the direction he disappeared from. "Oh, there is just no fucking way." She then leaped at full speed. "If's he's replacing posters then there has to be some he hasn't been to yet." Thia checked around 40 bulletins around the city until she found one, he hadn't been to yet. She grabs Evelyn's wanted poster and then takes a breather atop a building to look at the picture.

She looks at her and softly says, "What is it… I don't even know you so why I am so drawn to you?" She looks at her so intensely that the image of her picture is ingrained into her brain. "Unlike other women, my feelings being drawn to you are not of arousal. But... I need you."

She finally peels her glance away from the photo and says, "Crap. Am I about to fight this guy for her instead?" She looked back down at the photo and said, "What am I saying? She's a pirate… A very pretty pirate." Thia smacked herself in the face and spoke. "Get it together Thia! You're on a mission! Money for booze and dress for Rio! Money for booze! Dress for Rio!"

With Rio's dress in a backpack Thia had stolen, she found herself on top of building near the ship docking and merchant trading district as Jackson's dingy was being lifted out of the water and onto a massive ship that recently docked. A little odd to see a ship back into the port instead of pulling in. A lot of people were gathering to the ship now and actually cheering.

"These people seem to be acting a little out of their minds," she laughed. "What's so-" Thia's jawed dropped when the back of the ship opened and six people wheeled out a giant sea beast carcass and large crates of what Thia assumed were parts of the beast that were missing pieces of its body from what was visibly able to be seen.

"Come one and all!" The largest dark-skinned man addressed the crowd. "We bring you a new sea beast of the serpent class! You know how the serpent class tastes! And in these crates, we have scales, fur, and teeth. All to be auctioned separately!"

"What about it's bones?" One of the merchants yelled out.

"If this beast had a drinking problem, it would be milk!" One of the men said handling the beast with what looked like a sword at his hip.

"Regular or chocolate?" A merchant yelled that everyone started to laugh at.

"These people are animals," Thia thought. "I need to bring Rio here. This is more entertaining than anything we've found on that TV."

Thia was so entertained she almost missed seeing three people leave from the side of the ship. She noticed Jackson from his striking good looks. She saw another girl too who was short with pretty dark purple hair. And then her jaw dropped once she saw the girl who, from staring at her picture for the last hour was no doubt, Evelyn. "She so hot," Thia smiled.

She watched as they talked for a moment and then split up.

"Split up?" Thia cried out in her mind. "They split up?"

Thia quickly jumped down and from the weight of feeling the backpack bounce she leaned back and moaned, "Ugh. Thia you idiot! Dress for Rio! Money for booze! Dress for Rio! Money for booze!" She looked in the direction Evelyn went, winced at herself and took off in a different direction.

 She was looking for people with coin pouches but was sadly having to luck. She dashed left, she dashed right. Thia was slowly feeling like Neptune was telling her to stop drinking. Or the universe was playing with her.

 She turned a corner and saw a pretty hefty red sack among someone's belt. Drooling at the mouth she sprinted at her top speed. The second she touched the sack, she felt nothing but pain, tripped and fell to the ground and cried out. "Holy hell! That burns!" She was looking at her hands that were slightly red and in pain. "What the hell was in that thing? Damn lava rocks?"

"Not quite but it sure as hell feels like it doesn't it?" Thia turned her head at the shadow hovering over her and her eyes lit up as she's face to face with the person she had been obsessing over for the past hour. With a bright smile on the girl's face, the girl said, "Nice to meet you! I'm Evelyn!"