That Same Night

A/N: I do not own Super Sentai. Even if I did, Marvey-chan and Ahim would be together forever!

Night fell on the earth as the GokaiGalleon was anchored on a nearby street, soaring high and complimenting the bright stars and the moon's glow. Its crew members were fast asleep. Well, not everybody.

Only the ship's princess and its Captain were up.

Ahim had repeatedly gone up to the crows nest 3 nights before and she soon decided that it ould be her regular spot for nighttime reading under the company of the moon and the stars. She had been there for quite some time now, and she found it very comfortable. She climbed up the rope ladder and sat down inside the nest, and took out her book. As she read, she began to think about someone.

Him. He sailed into her life.

Ahim didn't know how someone like Captain Marvelous would come into her life, but she was sure glad he did. She had liked him for a short time, and she wondered-yes, wondered-if he liked her back. Even though she was very new at this, he was there for her. He worried her sometimes, but it never stopped her from thinking about him. The dreaming about him came later on, but that was another story. She didn't get why falling in love with a pirate back in Famille was so uncivilized, but all she wanted to know was if he loved her the same way she like him. And from that, she fell asleep in the crows nest.

~ That Same Night ~

Marvelous, however, was intently looking for the little princess. She wasn't in her cabin, she wasn't in the living room, and she wasn't on deck. Where could she be? He looked up and found the sleeping princess in the crows nest. He smirked to himself.

"There you are," the brazen Captain muttered. As the leader of the Gokaigers, Marvelous was no ordinary Captain. He was more than that. He was trusted by AkaRed to wield the Ranger Keys and protect the earth. More so, he was entrusted by the rest of his crew their lives. The life he cherished more than his own was Ahim's. He cared about the princess. What he knew for her was to be there for her. She didn't have a criminal record. She didn't have a scary background that involved losing someone important to her.

Okay, maybe she did have a past like that, but she never knew what it was like to have a burden as big as his to carry on his shoulders. He wanted the princess to be his. She made him feel something that he had never felt before. She made him feel a dangerous feeling some pirates were lucky to even feel.

She made him feel love. Marvelous didn't know how Ahim did it, but her innocence made him feel that way for her. No one knew that. Not even Ahim. He was the only one to feel that way around her. At first, he thought that it was just a game and that she wouldn't feel the same way he did, but the more time he spent with her, the more he began to realize that it wasn't a game. He really wanted them to be more than friends. He quickly climbed the crows nest and scooped Ahim up in his arms, letting the book in her hands fall to the crow's nest floor. It was still open, and Marvelous read the words that were at the bottom: Happily Ever After.

What did those words mean, exactly? He stared at them for a moment, and when he felt the princess stir a bit, he jumped down from the crows nest and carried her to her room. He tucked her into her bed, softly moving a stray curl from her face. He looked down at her face. They were features unbefitting of a pirate, but he didn't mind that. He loved her for who she was, and that was what mattered. He felt his heart race a bit faster everytime he looked at her.

Is this normal? He thought, questioning himself. Is this the way I should feel for Ahim?

Marvelous turned around and twisted the door handle, letting himself out and let the words 'Happily Ever After' play repetitively in his mind. Whatever those words were, he was going to find what it meant. What he didn't know was that the little princess, whose eyes were open just a teensy bit, watched him leave and smiled in her sleep.

I hope you guys like this! This is my very first Marvelous/Ahim, let alone this being my actual story homework, so enjoy!