Sire

May. 12th, 2010 09:43 pm
[identity profile] featheredtips.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] onepiece_300
Title: Sire
Rating: K
Media: Fanfiction
Pairing/Characters: Silvers Rayleigh
Word Count: 300
Prompt: Myth
Comments: I blame the re-watching of BBC’s Merlin. D:

Summary: Myth and legend are told in stories. They harbour dreams that live in the hearts of children, the strength of men and the bosoms of women. Luffy, of course, doesn’t get any of this shit and doesn’t care. He takes to the seas to be free, and Rayleigh smiles, because that’s how a king should always behave.

Sire

We are such stuff: As dreams are made on.

Dreams are the stuff of myth and legend. A slow unwinding vortex of ‘what if’s and ‘could have been’s only ever so often culminating into reality.

Most myths are hearsays. No one can ever prove them true (or false). They are the words recorded on parchment, etched on stone, sung in song and passed on in stories.

None left can truly claim their origins.

He had heard his share of stories – some real, some fabricated (who can tell?) – and told his fair share of tales. Yet, he had been a non-believer; so stuck was he in the trivialities of life that he didn’t see past the fairytales, couldn’t see past the myths.

But that was all in the past.

It had taken him thirty years and a right good smacking around the face, but he had, at last, been dragged to sea by a man his age in years and many years his junior in heart.

(Only children have dreams like these.)

He’d known many stories, but none applied themselves to a being so completely made by the intangible stuff of dreams.

“I’m going to create both myth and legend, mate. You just wait and see.”

He turned a believer on the day the axe had fallen and bled the seas that now charted the course of the Age of Dreams.

The age of those with the will of D.

The ones who will carry with them the heart of the Once and Future King.

Myth had seen one king fall. Legend had seen another. Reality, three more fell.

And as Silvers Rayleigh, first-mate of the Pirate King, looked at a grin so full of teeth, charisma and life, he smiled into his whiskey.

Dreams would bear the last full sail.

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Date: 2010-05-12 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aoi24.livejournal.com
Ooooo, so pretty and poetic. I rather approve. :D

Date: 2010-05-12 03:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catiprojectc.livejournal.com
This is very beautiful and poetic and I love it.
That last sentence just grabbed me.

Date: 2010-05-14 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catiprojectc.livejournal.com
YEAH but hello, I just love your writing, you can't blame me for saying it over and over again.
I do feel as if there's a slight change but that can be just my brain playing ticks on me.

*looks at your icon* Well let's just say when it comes to life, XD I'm not feeling as up to it as stitch is! *grins* I'm okay don't worry about me ^^ How are you ?

Date: 2010-05-14 05:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catiprojectc.livejournal.com
Ah, *pats her mind and brain for actually noticing something while it most of the time seems to be to daft to do so* Sorry to hear that it seems to be in a rut a bit and that your not getting inspiration. I'm slightly having mixed feelings about current OP chapters cause well, for obvious reasons I think but yeah I can see what you mean *hugs* let's just hope that the others are fairing well and that you get to see DOFLA and CROC soon.

Date: 2010-05-13 07:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] printfogey.livejournal.com
Great lead-up and wonderful, wonderful finish. ♥ Thank you.

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