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Chinese Treasures Ch. 4

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NOT YET BETAED! English is not my first language! Grammar nazi's will hate me~ <3

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Chapter 4

Yao brought his fingers to his lips and touched them. A blush crept over his face as he thought back to the kiss and shocked himself with the thought. He pulled his hand back, ran it through his hair and closed his eyes for a moment. The feeling that filled his body was neither disgust nor satisfaction. It was more like the annoying itching feeling of doubt and confusion and he really had no idea what he should do with it.

He blamed himself. He was a respectful emperor, honest to his people, but he was slowly losing the rights to be the Chinese emperor. He had honestly enjoyed a kiss with his kidnapper, he was working on the ship of a pirate who wanted to steal China's treasure -His treasure. The treasure of his people.- He even started to doubt if he had struggled enough when Arthur kidnapped him. Back in the palace it had seemed to be the best option to save Jin and sacrifice himself, but was it really the best solution for his empire or did he act in behave of his feelings; his fear of losing his brother.

He slowly walked towards the bed and sat down. Maybe it had been a better idea if Arthur had allowed him to fight. Then he could have set his mind off.

He took a deep breath and concentrated on the sounds outside the cabin. He could hear Arthur's voice, rough by the salty air, loudly above the other pirates, though the words were muffled by the wooden door. Several objects moved and scrapped over the deck and then Arthur called out a loud 'fire!'.

The force of a dozen cannon's firing their cannonballs towards the other ship, made Arthur's ship recoil.

Yao was thrown back and tried to restore the balance he had lost. However a cannonball fired from the other ship didn't make his effort any easier.

The cannonball crashed into Arthur's ship and brought a loud cracking noise forth.

Yao took a deep breath and slowly blew the air passed his lips. He lay down on the bed and stared at the cabin's ceiling, listening to the cannon firing, the ship's cracking wood and the voices of the pirates.

Maybe it wasn't too bad to be locked up the small room. At least he wasn't ordered around by Arthur, like in the last three days.

Suddenly he realised that he was only three days on the ship, even though it felt like weeks. His body was already worn out and sore. No doubt that it was because in the palace his servants expected that he sat quietly on a throne and ruled his lands. Not that he followed these rules. Often he helped out his servants, especially in the kitchen. Yet he never had to work as hard as he had to on the ship.

Another cannonball hit Arthur's ship and this time just below Arthur's cabin.

Yao sat up, slightly pale from the shock. Maybe it wasn't as safe in the cabin as Arthur had expected.

He pushed himself on his feet and started walking through the room to give himself a false sense of security. His senses told him that if he would keep walking he would decrease the chance that he would be hit by a cannonball, though he knew it didn't make any difference.

The cannon fires continued for a while longer and then suddenly stopped. The sounds on deck changed. The pirate's barbaric and amused voices quickly turned into war noises, the cannon fires were replaced by gun fires and the metallic sound of crossing swords sounded.

Yao took a deep breath and sat down on one of the chair in the room, At least he didn't have to be scared to get hit by a cannonball.

He looked through the room to see if there was anything that he could use to amuse himself, since sitting there was slightly boring on his own. Not that he wanted to work or argue with the pirate captain, but at least then he would have been kept busy.

In the room's corner a glistering drew his attention. The emperor stood up and walked to the object. It was covered by a cloth; what caused Yao to be ever more curious. He pulled the cloth away and revealed a long sword. The handle was decorated with red stones and its blade was in perfect shape.

Yao grabbed the handle and tilted the sword from the ground. By the looks of it, it was a sword fitting for a king. Arthur probably stole it somewhere, Yao decided.

When he took a closer look the emperor could see the blade was used, though the damage seemed to be as minimal as possible. Most likely it was made of a perfect quality iron, not that he had a lot of knowledge about blacksmithing it was what he could see as a sword wielder.

He swung the sword through the air. It was definitely different from any Asian swords he had used before. However the sword's perfect balance indicated that it was of good quality.

With nothing better to do, Yao started practising with the sword, trying out what he could do with the foreign weapon. He placed his foot in front of him and moved the sword slowly over his head and back down in front of him. He pulled it back, step with his other foot forward and stabbed the sword forward.

Suddenly someone tried to open the door. Yao shock, stepped back, held one hand in front of him and held the foreign sword next to his face, pointing it to the door.

A screeching voice, one that Yao reminded of a crow, came from the other side of the door. The man was laughing in an extraordinary way and seemed to be very amused. "It's locked." He said with his rough screeching voice and an accent that Yao recognised as German. "I bet we find something behind this door!"

Yao had no idea if the male was talking to himself or to someone else, because the male didn't seem to get any response.

The doorknob moved violently in the door and the frame was creaking; ready to break. All of a sudden a sword was forced its way between the frame and the door and broke the lock. The door swung open and two pirates stepped into the doorway.

One of the males had short white hair and bright red eyes. A dangerous smirked reached from ear to ear as the young male seemed to be very amused about the situation.

The second male was far more charming than the white haired and looked nothing like a pirate at all. He had half long blond hair tied in a pony tail and bright blue eyes. He was the first to notice Yao standing in the middle of the room and smiled almost friendly towards him.

Yao was confused by the smile and almost let down his guard, though the white haired male caused that he did not.

Two red eyes turned into Yao's direction and narrowed. "What is a woman doing here?" The German said shocked. "A woman on board means bad luck! We have to leave!" He said and turned around to the door.

Yao was offended by the male's comment. It was already the second time that he was called a girl since Arthur kidnapped him, even though nobody every told him he was feminine in China. Or was that because no one dared too?

The blond pirate did not turn around like the German had done and kept smiling at Yao. "I do not think he's a girl, Gilbert." He said with a clear French accent, his voice gentle and melodic.

Yao blinked. The voice and accent fitted perfectly with the looks of the male, yet he hadn't expected it since the other male had a German accent.

"Do you call that a man?" Gilbert asked incredulous. He turned back to face Yao and narrowed his eyes a second time, searching for what the French pirate had noticed to identify the person in front of them as a male.

Yao kept quiet and let the two pirates discussed whether he was a male or not. The longer they would talk about it, the more time he had to figure out if he was in trouble or not and if he was if he could find a way out.

Yao scanned the room carefully, trying not to let the pirates notice that he was. The door was blocked by the two males; escaping wouldn't be easy. If only he could lure them further into the room he could slip, agile as he was, past them and escape to the deck. Not that he would be any saver there, but at least he wouldn't be cornered in Arthur's cabin.

"What does it care!" Gilbert suddenly called out ending the discussion if Yao was a male or not. "Arthur locked him in his cabin. He must be worth a lot! Let's take him!" The male smirked and pointed his sword into Yao direction.

Yao steadied his defensive position and held the sword tighter. Nobody was going to kidnap him a second time; once was far more than enough. And even though he wanted to leave Arthur's ship, he was sure getting onto another pirate ship wouldn't be any better.

The Frenchman turned to Yao. "You're coming, mon cher?" He asked friendly and held out a hand towards the emperor.

Yao stared confused at the Frenchman. The male was far too friendly to be a pirate and he couldn't see if it was only and act or if the male was genuine friendly towards him.

"What are you doing, Francis?" Gilbert screeched at the Frenchman. "Just grab him!"

Francis chuckled. "Hurting such a pretty face would be a terrible crime." He said to his fellow pirate.

Gilbert sighed clearly annoyed. "You should have remain in your galley!" He commented irritated.

Francis ignored the comment of the German pirate and turned to Yao a second time. "What do you say, cher?"

Yao tilted his head slightly to the side and took a few steps away from the two pirates in front of him.

The pirates noticed it and followed him to the back of Arthur's cabin, away from the doorway.

Yao carefully searched for the possible escape routes and immediately found one under the table. If he managed to escape through that opening the way to the door would be free. He quickly looked back to the pirates and finally gave the Frenchman his answer. "I have no intention in joining you."

"Awesome." The red eyes pirate said satisfied. "Then we'll take you by force."

The emperor merely had the time to steady himself before the red eyed pirate stormed towards him with a wide smirk on his face.

Their blades crossed. Yao pushed gilberts sword to the side with the sword his was holding, slipped past the male and didn't even need to duck under the table to get past the French pirate.

Though what the emperor hadn't seen was that the French pirate had been patiently waiting for Yao to ran away.

Francis hooked the arm, in which he was holding his sword, around Yao's throat and grabbed with his free hand Yao's sword holding hand. The French pirate pulled the arm behind the emperor's back and twisted it far enough to make the Chinese male loosen the sword.

Yao closed his eyes painfully when his wrist was twisted, but didn't bring out a single sound.

As soon as the sword fell out of his hand Francis stopped twisting Yao's wrist. He forced the emperor against the wall and chuckled. "Don't make me want to hurt you, mon cher." He purred into Yao's ear.

Yao stared at the wall thinking about what he could do. The Frenchman was holding his arm pretty tightly and pressed him quite hard against the wall. However the emperor still had one free arm, while the Frenchman had none.

Behind them the German pirate came closer and grabbed the sword from the ground. "What in the name of-" Gilbert didn't finish his sentence and suddenly start laughing enthusiastically. "Coldblood! Captain will be very pleased to see this!" He called out very amused.

The French pirate's eyes widened. He turned towards the German pirate and apparently didn't noticed he was loosening the grip on the Chinese emperor.

Yao, who had absolutely no idea what the two pirates were talking about, noticed Francis wasn't paying attention and took his chance. He pushed Francis backwards as hard as he could, pulled his arm free and ran towards the still opened door.

"Oi! Francis!" Gilbert called out. "What are you doing? We need him!"

Outside of the cabin Yao quickly glanced around, only to see both Arthur's ship and the other ship filled with fighting pirates. He turned back to the cabin's door, bending slightly through his knees, one hand in front of his chest and the other stretched towards the French and German pirate. He was in a disadvantage without a sword, never the less he would try to defend himself bare handed.

Gilbert swung his sword into Yao direction not even trying to be careful.

Yao stepped to the side and grabbed Gilbert's wrist. He brought his other arm to the back of the German's neck and pushed him face forward to the ground.

As soon as he did that, he had to duck away from the Frenchman's sword. He tried to throw Francis to the ground the same way as he had thrown Gilbert, but before he could the German stood back on his feet behind him and held his sword against his throat. "Got ya!" He said clearly amused. "Now be a nice little Asian and come with us."

With the blade against his throat Yao decided not to resist and neither to react on the comment about his height.

Francis walked closer and tried to tie Yao's hands, but the emperor resisted and pulled his hands away.

The Chinese male did want to leave Arthur's ship, but he wasn't planning to leave it only to end up on another ship with different pirates. He kind of knew what Arthur was up to by now, but he had no clue what the other pirates were like. The French pirate seemed to be very friendly -as long as he would obey-, though the German pirate was violent and probably loved the sight of blood and fear. Besides he hadn't even met the captain yet, who knows, maybe he was even worse than Arthur.

Francis managed to grab Yao's arms and tied the emperor's hands behind the male's back. "We have to bring him to the ship unnoticed." He informed Gilbert.

Yao pulled on the ropes that held his arms together and tried to pull his arms out of the restriction. Even though the French pirate had been gentle with him, he hadn't done so with the roped. The material was biting into his skin and it was impossible to free himself out of them.

"Let's put him into one of those!" Gilbert suddenly said and nodded into the direction of what he was looking at.

Yao looked up curious to see what the German pirate had meant by 'one of those'.

When Francis walked to a few barrels, opened the lid and emptied it on the floor, Yao's eyes widened in shock. Were they planning on putting him into a barrel to transport him?

The emperor's question was answered when Gilbert pushed Yao towards the emptied barrel.

"You are going to carry me in a barrel?" Yao asked shocked.

The German pirate smirked. "Who said we will carry you? Rolling it so much easier!" He laughed hatefully and pushed Yao against the barrel.

Yao felt the colour leaving his face. It's wasn't going the way he wanted it at all.

Francis grabbed Yao's legs lifted him and tried to lead them into the barrel, though Yao refused to cooperate. He widened his legs to make it impossible for the pirates to put him in the barrel.

"Bind his legs together." Gilbert said annoyed. "We have to get him to the ship as quickly as possible!"

"Oi! Don't order me around!" Francis said annoyed. He grabbed a second rope that he found near them on the ground and tied the Chinese male's legs together with it.

"Untie me immediately!" Yao commanded with as much authority as he possibly could at that moment. He tried to pull his legs out of the ties, but just like with his arms, the ties were to tight to loosen.

"Untie you, or what?" Gilbert asked hatefully. He laughed hard and amused. Then he forced the emperor into the barrel with a bit of help from Francis.

"Find me something to seal the lid with." Gilbert ordered Francis, ignoring the Frenchman's order from earlier. When said he placed the lid on top of the barrel to keep Yao inside.

Yao, who wasn't planning to quietly sit there waiting, tried to push the barrel open with his shoulder, though the German pirate was too strong for Yao to open the lid. He thrust a few times hard against the lid, but it was difficult to keep his balance while squatting and with his feet tied together.

It didn't take long before they ticked with an iron object against the barrel's wood. A sharp pain in Yao's shoulder, caused by a nail that was hammered into the lid, made Yao quickly pull away from the lid. He could feel his warm sticky blood slowly dripping out of the wound which the nail had made.

More nails were forced through the wood , fastening the lid to the barrel.

Yao cursed under his breath. He was captured once again and again it was by European pirates. He slowly lowered himself to the bottom of the barrel. Only then he noticed that the barrel was still partly filled with the liquor it was filled with before. His clothes slowly became soaked and it made him sigh. It wasn't his lucky day, or better said, it wasn't the luckiest part of his life, the remaining part that he had left, because it wouldn't take long anymore for it to end.

Suddenly the barrel was turned on its side. Yao shock. With his hand and legs tied he wasn't able to break the fall that he made in the barrel. He landed on the shoulder with the wound and groaned to himself.

"I'll let the captain know what we found." The French pirate said. His voice was muffled by the wooden barrier of the barrel, but Yao could still hear him clearly. "Get him on board unseen." He told the German pirate strict, probably taking him back for ordering him around before.

"Leave it to me!" The German answered enthusiastic. "Mister Asian and I will take a nice little walk. Or in his case a nice spinning!" He laughed hard about his own joke and make Yao roll his eyes.

Even though Yao expected it, he still shock when Gilbert start rolling the barrel.

The inside of the barrel was rough and caused that Yao couldn't slide to the bottom. Instead he had to roll along and fell down to the bottom every single time as the barrel was turned two quarters. He groaned and closed his eyes, trying to think about a way to break his fall. Yet it seemed impossible.

Suddenly they stopped.

"Help me caring this to the ship!" The German said.

Yao could hear pirates gathering around the barrel and suddenly he was lifted. It was more than a scary idea to be in mid air and not being able to see a thing of what was going on around him.

"Don't you dare letting it slip!" Gilbert called out. "It's worth more than any of your miserable lives!"

Yao couldn't help but notice that the German pirate was acting as if he was the captain instead of one of the crew members. Though he was pretty sure he was not. Arthur had called the pirate captain Antonio, besides the Frenchman didn't seemed to be very pleased that the German pirate ordered him around.

When the Barrel hit the ground again, Yao quickly pulled up his knees. He pressed against the side of the barrel with his back and knees and tried to hold himself on the same spot. If it would go according to what he hoped, he would be spinning along with the barrel. Hopefully it would be less horrible than falling with every turn it made.

The barrel was rolled further again. Yao spun along with the barrel and it made him dizzier than expected. He quickly closed his eyes and tried to block out the rotations that he made.

All of a sudden they stopped again.

"Let's give you some flying lessons!" The German suddenly called out.

Yao quickly opened his eyes to the darkness in the barrel. What was the German planning?

The barrel received a push and the emperor could feel how the barrel rolled down from something that probably were stairs. He closed his eyes again and tried to pinch himself between the walls of the barrel even tighter, hoping that he could hold it long enough until he arrived downstairs. Though he was rotating harder than before and it was a bumpy trip down, what made it a lot more difficult to do so.

In the last bump Yao's head bounced back against the barrel. His couldn't hold himself pinched on one spot any longer and hit his head a few times more while the barrel rolled, until it stopped.

With the feeling as of the whole world was spinning all around him, he lost the control over his conscious and blacked out.

~To be continued
You don't even know half how much I hate the way this chapter turned out D8 God.. D8 It was just that it was already 5 months ago since I last updated.. and I just really badly wanted to upload the next chapter >: Hopefully the next chapter will be a lot better!

Chapter 1:: [link]
Chapter 2:: [link]
Chapter 3:: [link]
Chapter 4:: You're here 8D
Chapter 5:: [link]
Chapter 6:: Coming Soon~ <3

Next chapter:: Yao will hate me forever if he knew what I'm going to do with him~ Let's see how long it will take before he hopes and prays for Arthur to save him~ <3

BY THE WAY! :iconmathilly: and I made a filmposter thingy for fun :'D here is the link:: [link]
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kafka000's avatar
Nooooooooooo !!! The time Yao spent with Arthur is too short! They just had their first kiss and nooooooooo!!! When will Yao spend with Bad trio? I doubt he will be able to return to Arthur in the next four chapters ;_;

Keep on with the good work!