And I take a break from Set 1 and fix something for the Mini Challenge
Title: Just a Piece of History
Theme: # 1 Paper - Mini challenge # 3
Character: Usopp
Words: 453
Rating: G
Warnings: Future fic
Disclaimers: I own nothing.
Side note: Could a mod fix a tag, please? Thaaanks~
It was just a simple piece of paper. A blank, empty piece of white paper.
It looked so innocent to the eye now that it was uncompleted, but he knew that this piece of paper had the potential to ruin whole families, or even countries if you put the right signs on them. He could write a letter to the World government, destroying peoples life with the right information. With this piece of paper he had the chance to create something eternal, something that could change the world.
At the same time, he knew that if he put his pen to the surface and drew a cut, fuzzy ink cat, then no countries would perish and no one would die. Maybe, somewhere a child would giggle and call it cute. But soon it would be forgotten, even by the little child, and the his little cat would do no good. Ink cats never stood a good chance against eternity.
Chewing on the end of his pen, Usopp didn't know what he was supposed to put down on his paper. Destroying any happy fates was out ruled, but at the same time, putting his prints on history was a part of his life long dream. He had sailed the oceans up and down, backwards and forwards, and he had entertained his crew with stories, so outrageous that all of them had laughed and called him a liar. Still year after year, they experienced the most wonderful adventures, often making Usopp's stories come to life.
Still, nothing lasted for that precious eternity; no countries, not that little ink cat nor his crew. They were old now, almost too old, and soon they would become nothing more than the cat; remembered somewhere in someone's heart, but forgotten to the world. He had seen what the world did to people, and how a man could simply disappear.
Looking down on the simple paper, the blank, empty piece of paper, Usopp smiled. His hand shook slightly from his old age, yet he managed to dip his feather pen into the ink and slowly he started writing. Carefully, word for word, he scribbled that precious piece of paper full of the words of his life, and of the legend that his crew was. This way they wouldn't be forgotten, no matter what the World Government did. With his tongue sticking out his mouth, Usopp concentrated hard on this, his final task of transforming the simple piece of paper into something that would last an eternity.
Thas simple piece of paper was no longer a blank, empty piece of paper. It was now a piece of history. Or, as Usopp the Great Captain and Storyteller rather called it; an undying legend.