Chapter 1: Dave Green, the pirate! The begin of a great journey!
"Come on, Jim. Don't be such a slacker", the captain chuckled to his deckhand. The young man groaned, while leaning on his mop. The sun was relentlessly burning on the deck of the cargo ship.
"I'll get to it soon. Just give me a minute", he responded tiredly. The captain nodded satisfied and went back to steering the ship through the North Blue. It was on course towards the shipyard on Harvest Island for some much needed repairs. It was so damaged, that it had begun losing cargo. The rest of the crew was busy handling emergency repairs to keep the ship floating.
The captain sighed: "I hope we can reach the next harbor in one piece."
Dave sighed morosely, as he spun his favorite teacup on his pinky. It has been one week since they set out from their home island to travel the seas. Unfortunately Dave had forgotten to bring any supplies. The few supplies his brother Matt brought with him were soon used up, so they had to rely on rainwater. Even the Wool King, a giant aquatic sheep, which they were riding, was getting tired. Suddenly the animal stopped, which flung both men forward. Dave's teacup almost dropped into the ocean.
"Why did you stop, Bubbles?", Matt asked the sheep, scratching it behind the ear. The animal was munching on something.
"Oi, i almost dropped my favorite cup", huffed Dave while climbing up to the horns. "This better be worth it!"
The eyes of both men went wide, as they saw, what the sheep was munching on.
"An entire crate of tealeaves!", the younger brother shouted excitedly, while trying to pull the crate on Bubbles' head.
"We're the luckiest men on the sea! Where do you think it came from?", Dave asked his older brother. Matt pointed to the horizon, where a brownish trail with leaves was floating.
Dave climbed near the sheeps ear and whispered: "Alright, Bubbles, listen. If you follow the trail in the water to it's origin you can have as many tealeaves as you want." The young man climbed to the horns and held onto them, while Matt did the same.
"This is gonna suck, isn't it?", Matt asked his brother frowning, already beeing aware of the answer.
Dave Green just smiled as wide as he could, as he said: "You know me and Bubbles too well." The sheep suddenly accelerated to high speeds with Dave laughing like a maniac, as his limbs dangled in the wind and Matt freezing up.
"Captain!", yelled the lookout."There is something approaching from the north!"
The captain and the deckhand turned to north and paled. A huge seaking was approaching with incredibly high speed and glinting eyes. The captain turned to the deckhand, only to see him passed out, foaming out of his mouth.
As the beast was closing in, the captain heard a young voice yelling out stop. Surprisingly the beast stopped two meters from hitting the ship, creating a huge wave and dousing the entire crew with seawater. Only now the dripping captain got a good look at the monster. It was a huge, black Wool King, an aquatic sheep, which was almost the same size as the cargo ship. But even more surprising were the two young men holding on to its horns.
The younger looking one of the two was thin, green haired, with an oversized plank of wood strapped to his back and had a goofy looking grin on his face. The other man had short, brown hair, was slightly taller and looked kinda sick. Then the green haired man noticed the captain and waved.
He yelled: "Oi, old man! Can we have some tea?" The captain's eyebrows twitched violently, as he passed out.
The captain felt a pain in his cheek, as he came to his senses. Somebody was pulling his cheek. He opened his eyes and saw the brown haired man from before above him. The captain sat upon the bed in the captains quarters.
"Old man, are you alright? You really scared us there", the young man said smiling, pointing behind himself. The entire crew of the freighter was breaking down in tears.
"C-Captain, you're alright. Thank goodness", the deckhand muttered happily.
The lookout cried: "You're so close to retirement, we didn't know, if your heart could handle this shock."
The captain blinked multiple times, then he got up and yelled: "And me passing out gives you an excuse to slack off?!"
"Calm down, captain, we got you covered.", told him the brown haired stranger, motioning him to follow him outside. As the captain saw, what was in front of his freighter, his knees started to wobble. The gigantic aquatic sheep, that was attacking not even a minute ago was calmly pulling the vessel while munching on a sack of tea leaves.
"I got you, captain", said the deckhand, slipping under the captains arm to support him.
"Dave and his brother Matt made a deal with us", the deckhand explained.
"A pretty good one, i'd say", said Dave, carrying a steaming teaset from the galley.
The green haired man took a sip out of a expensive looking teacup the captain didn't recognize and explained: "We, that's Matt", Dave nodded to his brother "Bubbles, our Wool King", he nodded towards the fluffy beast, which bleated satisfied into his tea leaves "and me, Dave Green, agreed to tow your ship to Harvest Island in exchange for all of your tea." Matt walked up to Dave, nudged him in the side.
"Fine, we only take one crate and the sack our sheep has", Dave pouted, crossing his arms. The captain was speechless and just nodded tiredly. Matt picked up two cups of tea and handed one to the captain.
"Well, let's get to that island, old man", the brown haired man said. The captain sighed as he dropped down into his seat.
"This is going to be a loooong cruise.", he muttered to himself.
A/N: Phew, finally i'm starting to upload this. I started writing this, when i began rewatching One Piece (It was one of my favorite shows during my youth) and started to read the One Piece fanfiction 'This Bites!' That work kinda inspired me to take a shot at it. I've been writing on this fanfiction for a few months now and have saved up a bunch of chapters. My friends have been bugging me to upload it so... I'll be blunt, English isn't my first language, so please feel free to correct me. Updates will happen monthly or shorter intervals, not sure for now. At some point we will enter the Grand Line, but for now, we're keeping it in the North Blue. This is going to stay relatively shipping free. Also can't be sure about stumbling upon canon characters.
Anyways, thank you for reading and have a great day :)