For all of those who want to know-

Honestly, The name 'Bink's Apple Juice' was the first name I came up with... But when I think about it now it sort of describes Baylee in a way. Like a pirate would go straight for sake, right? Even the Red Haired Shanks said that pirates don't drink juice. Baylee isn't what other pirates would consider a 'fellow' pirate; she's skinny, dorky, lacks confidence, gets seasick, and everything else a pirate isn't. Baylee doesn't dream big or does anything special (yet) and compared to Luffy she really is plain and weak; like comparing apple juice to sake. Also, I like the song 'Bink's Sake' and I'm not into alcohol. Apple juice is one of my favorite drinks next to milk but it looks more like alcohol, of sorts...


I don't own One Piece... If I did, we'd be seeing a lot more of Trafalgar Law ;3~


Floating in the middle of the ocean was a barrel that reeked of black olives… and now sea water. Inside that barrel was a snoozing Luffy and a panicking Baylee.

Oh no, oh no, oh no! What are we going to do! How long until we reach land? What about a boat? What if we don't reach land! It was least to say that Baylee was freaking out, and truth be told, she was starting to get sea sick.

Since the barrel was so cramped, Luffy's head was nestled in the crook of Baylee's neck making Baylee crane her neck and head awkwardly away from his. Luffy's body heat and the rocking of the ocean waves were making poor Baylee turn a sickly shade of green. She was, in fact, so nauseous that she didn't even hear the splash near her own head, outside of the barrel.

Baylee was pulled from her planning when she noticed the rocking had subsided. Why did everything stop?

She found out real soon when the bottom of the barrel hit a solid floor. Oh god, we've been abducted by aliens!

Sadly, poor Baylee had too much blood rushing to her head from all the panic to hear anything outside. Being rolled on her side was pretty painful, too; Luffy, her bag, and herself were squished painfully (to her at least) against each other. Her bag was more painful to land on than Luffy, but Baylee, being the lovely, thoughtful person she was, arranged herself so she had her weight distributed to her elbows, each on either side of Luffy's shoulders, her back pressed into the side of the barrel, her whole body was tense to keep from moving too much, and her neck was strained so she didn't head-butt Luffy. Baylee could feel a massive migraine coming on…

At least the barrel had finally stopped rolling. Baylee ended up on top of Luffy, awkwardly straddling him. She stayed tense for another few seconds before collapsing on top of her captain, who continued to doze through all of the recent events … Lucky bastard.

Even through her pounding headache, Baylee could still appreciate how comfortable Luffy's rubbery body was; firm, soft, warm… Whoa. Too far. Time to back up. I'm just delusional from the lack of fresh air. Yeah, that's it. Delusional... Deep breaths. In… Out… In… Out…In-I swear on Gold Rodger's Mustache I'll never so much as look at another olive. The stench was too much.

Baylee continued to keep her breathing coördinated with Luffy's, slowly calming down. Her eyes began to droop and she started to doze off, unconsciously snuggling into Luffy's chest. Baylee was finally at peace when the barrel started rolling, again.

Spitting like an offended cat, She tensed, waiting to be rolled down another flight of stairs... or something equally bad... The barrel was tipped onto its flat side (luckily Baylee wasn't on her head). She heard one quiet voice and other more... rambunctious voices. Baylee started shaking Luffy by the shoulders to wake him up.

Success! Luffy woke up alright. He even smashed open the lid of the barrel and knocked out one of the people outside!

"WHAT A GREAT NAP!"

Baylee hung over the side of the barrel, taking deep breaths of fresh air. There were two, brutish people standing in front of them, one passed out on the floor, and one little kid behind them.

"What's this?" Luffy looked down at the unconscious dude. "Who are you guys?" he then asked, looking at the two in front of them.

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?" They shouted back at Luffy.

"That guy is going to catch a cold if he sleeps on the floor." Luffy stated. Baylee let out a weak laugh as Luffy got out of the barrel.

"THAT WAS YOUR FAULT!" They shouted again.

"You little punk." One of the brutes pointed his sword at Luffy, "You should know better than to screw around with pirates."

"I'm really hungry. Is there any food around?" Luffy had his back to them, asking the little kid with pink hair.

"LISTEN TO WHAT I'M SAYING!" This guy sure doesn't like to be ignored, Baylee thought as she push her one-way glasses back up her nose.

"You little shit!" as they both brought their swords down, Baylee ducked back down into the barrel, "Die!"

Baylee heard a clang and a thump or two before she came back up. Luffy still stood tall while the two other pirates were on their knees with broken swords. 'How the Hell did he do that!'

"What'd you do that for?" Luffy whined. Baylee let out the breath she was holding.

"W-Who are you?"

"Me? I'm Monkey D. Luffy! Nice to meet you!"

"No offence, Luffy, but I don't think you're suppose to exchange pleasantries with people who just tried to kill you..." Baylee deadpanned from the barrel.

The two grunts then ran out of the room, dragging their unconscious friend between them.

"What? What just happened?" The kid was on all fours, now, clearly in shock.

"What's their problem?" Luffy asked, frowning at the spot where the other two just were.

"Quick! You've godda run!", Pinky started," If those guys come back with their buddies they'll kill you both on the spot!"

"I don't care about that; I'm hungry!"

"Thank you for the heads up, though." Baylee politely added on.

"How can you just blow this off like that! There are hundreds of them up on deck and they're waiting for the opportunity to kill anything!" Pinky was now latched on to Luffy's arm try to hold back Baylee's garbage disposal of a captain from what one could assume to be the ship's food pantry.

Baylee was more focussed on getting out of the barrel to care about what was going on around her, She managed to get her leg over the rim when the pink haired kid started shouting about other pirates or lord knows what. But of course, Baylee lost her balance (not that she had much of it to start with...) and fell over, bringing the barrel with her and smashing it to pieces with a crash. Luffy was half way to the other door (with Pinky trying, and failing, to hold him back) when he looked back to see what the commotion was. When he saw Baylee laying face-down on the floor,arms spread open-eagle, in a pile of wood, He started laughing and asked,

"Ha, ha, ha! What are you doing on the floor, Baylee?"

"I was just testing the gravity... Err,Yeah, it still works. Ow." Baylee winced as she got up from the small pile of wood. I think I have splinters... So far, so bad; they had sunk their only boat and were now stowing away on a boat that could belong to just about anybody... Baylee would have pictured her first week of pirating to go a little smoother than this, but something told her that Luffy didn't like the smooth way...


Baylee swung her legs and sat on the upper platform of the ship's cargo unit as the kid checked to see if the cost was clear and Luffy opened a crate of apples.

"These look tasty!" Luffy exclaimed, holding up two apples, "Here Baylee! Catch!" he threw one over to her and she barely caught it with the tips of her fingers. She heaved a heavy sigh then bit into her apple.

"I'm Coby," the pink haired boy introduced. Baylee turned to look at him, still munching her first bite, "And you're Luffy, right? And you-... I never got your name!"

"That's alright. I'm Silvers Baylee . Pleased to meet you, Coby."

"That was amazing back there, How'd you do that" Coby asked Luffy... But Luffy was too busy stuffing his face to hear him.

"These are good!" Luffy turned to look at Coby and then turned back.

"Is this a pirate ship?" Baylee asked from above the other two, still swinging her legs.

"No... This ship isn't" Baylee raised an eyebrow at Coby's answer. This ship? Is there another, then?

"This ship is being attacked by Captain Alvida right now," Coby explained farther; looking up at Baylee as Luffy continued to fill up on apples. Baylee nodded understanding the situation.

"Mm?... It doesn't really matter." Luffy said. Baylee gaped at her captain, bewildered at his lack of common logic. "Are there any boats on this ship?" Uuhh...She was just about to ask that...

"Yeah, I think there are a few..." Coby said.

"Great! 'Cause mine got sucked into some whirlpool."

"You mean: you sailed my boat into some whirlpool." Baylee's tone was dripping with unforgotten irritation and distress. She didn't raise her voice but her tone alone was enough for Luffy sweat and quake with childish fear. At least he has the decency to look guilty.

"That one outside! No way! No one could have survived that..." Baylee found Coby's surprised exclamation rather flattering. A smug smile slithered over her face, her swirl-tinted, trifocal glasses seemed to gleam with delight.

"Yeah, I was surprised, too! Baylee saved us!" Luffy said. Now Baylee was turning red... and it wasn't from embarrassment... or the indirect praise from her captain, either...

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN, 'It surprised me, too'?" Baylee used a really bad impersonation of Luffy," YOU SAILED US INTO IT!" Now she was yelling. Luffy was beginning to realize that Baylee had a little temper; especially when the Black Aura of Death surrounded his first mate.

Luffy surrendered; raising his hands in defeat and laughing sheepishly... And Coby just pissed his pants... So far, things could only get worse...

"So are you one of the passengers or one of the pirates?" Luffy asked Coby, semi-wittily changing the subject at current hands, and avoiding Baylee's Magnified glare.

The transition from 'I-Just-Pissed-My-Only-Pair-Of-Pants' to 'Oh-Woe-Is-Me-I'm-Emo-Now' was less than an accurately calculated micro-second as Coby began his melodramatically depressing, life story,

"It was on that fateful day... That day, I got in a boat on the outskirts of town to go fishing..." You could see the horror in Coby's chubby expression as he relived his dreadful story, "... But it turned out the boat was actually heading for a pirate ship." Ouch, saw that comming... "It's been two years since... In exchange for my life, I've been forced to be a chore boy."

Baylee ajusted her glasses to keep herself from commenting on how pathetic the little boy was being and reminded her self that if she didn't have anything nice to say, she should keep it to her self, but... Luffy appearently didn't know that form of mannerism... And made Baylee question if there was any form of filteration between her captain's brain and mouth.

"Man, you're dumb and stupid!" Baylee just stared at Luffy with an unreadable, deadpanned expression as Coby bowed his head.

"You're brutally honest..." You could say that again...

"If you don't like it, then run away!" Aww, Luffy's simplicity was so cute yet so frustrating.

"It can't be that simple, Luffy." Baylee monotonously said, looking down at her captain and Coby from the upper part of the storage room.

"I-I can't! No way! No way!" Coby shook his head furiously from side to side and drowned out what Baylee had said, " Just the thought of Captain Alvida finding me and makes me weak in the knees-"

The corners of Baylee's lips turned down into a frown. She can't be that scary...

"Oh, so you're a wimp, too?" Luffy asked with a big smile on his face, "Man, I hate you!"

Coby looked of to the side with comical tears running down his face. Baylee drew in a breath and let out an exasperated sigh.

Baylee was beginning to to lose interest in their conversation, Luffy was too simple and Coby was just pathetic. She hoped that there would be at least one person on their crew that she could have a decent conversation with... or at least one that didn't have a thought process that was limited to meat and fighting... She rubbed her uneaten apple on her pants and took a bite out of it.

Huh?... He's right, these are good.


Baylee was stemming through her notes that were in the leather-bound book that was in her bag, still in the upper part of the cargo unit with the other two below her. She was partly watching the other two; Luffy eating anything he could get his hands on and Coby was talking himself through a low-scale mental break down. Baylee notice that there was some sort of commotion above them.

"You're right." Coby said suddenly, louder than his earlier muttering, catching Luffy and Baylee's attention, "You're absolutely right. If only i had the courage to drift across the ocean in a barrel." Baylee sweatdroped. It wasn't courage that made them stuff themselves into a barrel. "There's something I'd like to do." oh? "Excuse me, Luffy-san, Baylee-san, but why are you two so eager to sail the sea?"

Luffy's face brightened up only a fraction but it still seemed to light up the room.

"I'm gonna become the Pirate King!" ... There were no words in Baylee's vocabulary that could accurately describe the look on Coby's face, but she could say that she has never seen a jaw drop so fast...

"The Pirate King!?"

"Yeah."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously."

"Baylee-san, Is he serious?!"

"He's serious." She said chuckling at Coby.

"Then, Luffy-san, Baylee-san, are you two pirates?!"

"Yeah." Luffy simply affirmed.

"I suppose so" Baylee mused.

"Do you have any crew?" Coby was still shocked...

"Just Baylee. I'm about to start recruiting."

Coby's jaw dropped a little farther down at that information and his left eyebrow twitched a little too... Baylee leaned forwards on her perch to see if the kid was still breathing... She didn't think he was... Luffy leaned back and waved his hand in front of Coby's face. Coby abruptly stood up and exclaimed,

"The Pirate King is someone who has everything in the world! That means claiming the treasure which represents wealth, fame, and power-" Luffy and Baylee nodded at the list. Coby threw his arms wide open and continued with the same, if not more, moxy that he had started with, "One Piece, The greatest treasure in the world!"

"Yeah." Oh Luffy...

"Yeah!? All the pirates in the world are trying to claim that treasure!"

"And so am I!"

"It's impossible! Impossible, impossible, impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Coby shook his head frantically from side to side. Baylee frowned. "You want to stand at the top of the Great Age of Pirates!? It can't be done! impossible, impossible!"

She didn't like the way Coby made such a big deal about it. It made her think of the phrase, The people who say it's impossible should move aside for the person doing it. Maybe she read it somewhere... Baylee's inner turmoil was restrained behind the bland façade that melded over her face as Luffy's fist came down on Coby's head.

"Why did you hit me?" Coby was on the ground with his hands covering his head and his knees tucked under his chest as Luffy stood over him.

"Just because." That's a good reason...

"But it doesn't matter. I'm used to it." Coby sat up rubbing his head and chuckled... or was it sobbing.

"It's not about possible or impossible."

Coby and Baylee both looked at Luffy who had his left hand on his hat, pulling it over his eyes.

"I'm doing it because I want to." Luffy pulled off his hat, "I decided to become the Pirate King... and if I die fighting for it, then that's that!"

Baylee's unseen eyes softened and a tiny smile pulled at her mouth when she heard that. That's Luffy for you... Coby was also in awe.

"Okay, now that I'm full, maybe I should go get a boat" Baylee's shoulders shook as she was silently laughing at the frozen Coby below as Luffy made his way to the stairs next to her. "Maybe they'll give me one if I ask nicely. Maybe they're generous people." A snort ripped through Baylee's fit of laughter. Baylee had yet to meet a pirate kind enough to give escaping refugees a getaway boat.

"I guess I never thought of it like that." Coby murmured. Baylee turned to see if he was talking towards their direction. "If I put my mind to it, if I'm prepared to die for it... could I do something like that?"

"Like what?" Luffy asked and Baylee wondered.

"Do you think... Do you think I could ever join the Marines?"

Baylee raised an eyebrow. The Marines?

"The marines?" Luffy voiced his first mate's question.

"YES! Catching bad guys is the only thing I wanted to do! It's been my dream since I was a child! Do you think I could do it?"

Baylee scratched the back of her head, she wasn't sure if she should lie or be honest. "Well-"

"Haha, How should I know that?"

"Then I'm going to do it! I'm not going to be stuck here as a cabin boy! I'm going to break out and turn around and catch Alvida myself!"

*CRASH* ...The ceiling collapsed. The rubble landed right where Coby had been standing. Luckily, Coby got out of the way. Luffy and Baylee couldn't see what was happening through all of the dust and stuff that came with the falling ceiling.

"Whose that you plan on catching, Coby?" Baylee had a hard time distinguishing whether the newcomer's was a man or a woman. "Do you actually think those twigs are going to help you?" Baylee made out the silhouette of a rather large person through the dust. "Well? Answer me!" Oh... That was one big lady.

Baylee had her latest mini-heart attack when two swords came through the door between her and Luffy and the three more on Luffy's left. Baylee turned to the gargantuan woman who had shouldered her club and swallowed thickly.

"My guess is that neither of you are Zoro the Pirate Hunter."

"Who? Nope, never heard of 'em." Baylee shook her head in a 'no' fashion.

"Zoro?" Luffy was as confused as Baylee.

"Coby!" said boy screamed, " Who is the most beautiful of all on these seas?"

"Well-I-uh-uh-gimme a sec-I know this-"

"Hey Coby, Who's the fat lady?" Luffy was pointing and everything.

Baylee smothered her snorts into the palm of her hand. Oh my god, their faces! Baylee was sure she heard an 'Uh-oh, not good'.

"YYYOOOOUU RRRRRUUUUUUNNNT!"

Baylee let out a startled squeak when she saw the lady swing her spiked club at them and scrambled to the corner as Luffy jumped towards Coby. She thought she imagined Luffy saying "Let's go." before she felt Luffy's hand grab onto her wrist and yanking her up with him and Coby. How Luffy could carry them all up to the top deck was beyond Baylee's reasoning but there they were in front of pirates armed with swords. They started attacking and Baylee decided to make like a banana and split. She made a sweep over the boat, looking for the lifeboats and made a break for it when she spotted them on the side nearest to the pirate's ship. and started loosening the ropes, missing Luffy bowl into the mass of pirate grunts behind her. She turned around when it got a little to quiet to find that Luffy, Coby, and Alvida were the only three left.

"OI, Luffy! I found a boat!" She called.

"Sweet!" Luffy called back

"So. You've eaten of the Devil fruit." Alvida stated. Baylee already knew this, but what other people said about it fascinated her.

"Yeah, I ate the Gomu Gomu no mi."

"Uh-huh. I heard rumors they existed, but I've never seen any evidence of them before today. You're more skilled than the average deck swabber, are you a bounty hunter?

"I'm a pirate!" Luffy sounded exasperated, like he's said that too many times.

"A pirate! Ha! All by yourself on these waters?"

"No, I have my First Mate, Baylee, with me now." Alvida looked over to her left at Baylee who mock saluted with only her pointer and middle fingers. "But I'll find the rest of my crew tomorrow, or next week or something. I need like, I dunno, like ten guys, yeah ten."

"Ha! Tell me, If we're both pirates and we're not under the the same flag, then that would make us enemies, am I right?"

Baylee's grin dropped. She wasn't liking where this was going. She watched Luffy and Coby chitter about something and she hoped it involved leaving.

"Go on, tell me." No fair! Alvida can hear them and I can't!

Baylee watched Coby suck in a breath and shouted, "YOU'RE THE MOST UGLIEST THING ON THE SEA! EVEN BAYLEE'S PRETTIER THAN YOU!"

"OI! DON'T DRAG ME IN TO THIS, TWERP!" Least to say, Coby was going to get it later, although, Baylee would be lying if she said she wasn't even a little flattered.

Luffy started laughing right out loud, at what though could be anything; Alvida's face, Baylee's reaction to being called pretty, or the simple fact that Coby grew a pair and said it.

"What'd you say!?" Alvida was covered in tick marks, but seeing that Baylee was a lot scarier and Luffy's laughing egging him on, Coby was able to muster up even more courage.

"I'm leaving and I'm going to join the Marines! Then I'm going to spend the rest of my life beating up dirty pirates like you!"

"Do you have any clue what you are saying to me right now?!"

"Of course I do! And I'm going to do what I want and no one's going to stop me! And when I join the Marines, I'm going to join 'em and I'm going to catch your lousy ass first!"

"Your dead kid!" Alvida swung her club up high above her head.

"Well said!" Luffy pushed Coby back and blocked Alvida's club... with his head.

"Oh, Luffy... When I say 'use your head' I meant that you're suppose to think things through, not use your actual head." Baylee face-palmed. She knew he was fine; after all, she, herself, had thrown an empty barrel at his head once and actually hit her target.

She watched her captain throw off the club with his fist and said fist continued to fly off to gather potential energy for Gum-Gum Pistol attack that sent Alvida more or less flying of over the horizon and far away. Baylee let out a relieved sigh and climbed into the lifeboat and started lowering it. Then, with their unfortunate lack of luck, the Marines showed up and started firing. The loud noises surprised Baylee and she let go of the rope as Luffy jumped into the little boat, sending in crashing into the water below. Everything happened so fast that Baylee could have sworn that there was another lifeboat with them and she also wondered when Coby had gotten into the boat without her noticing... Oh well...


There was no question. They were now stranded...

"We actually managed to get away!" Coby could barely see the ships on the horizon.

"Haah, What fun! haha!" Luffy sat near the front of the little sail boat.

"Thank Rodger, it's over..."Baylee leaned against the little mast in the middle of the boat facing Luffy.

"So, Luffy, Baylee." Coby called their attention." Since you guys are going after the illusive One Piece, that means you're heading for the Grand Line, right?" Baylee nodded and Luffy grunted. "The people I've talked to call that place the 'Pirate Graveyard'."

"That's why we need an extra strong crew. You guys mentioned some 'Pirate Hunter'. So, what's he like, Coby?" Luffy asked. Baylee, curious as well, turned her head to her right to look at Coby.

"Oh, you mean Zoro? Last I heard is that he's being held prisoner at some Marine Base"

"That's too bad." Baylee said quietly and turned back around.

"Oh, a weakling, huh?" Luffy was disappointed as well.

"NO! You're so wrong!" Coby shouted, leaning over the barrel next to Baylee, "He's as violent as a demon and three times as horrifying!" Baylee raised both eyebrows, if the guy was so big and scary then how come she's never heard of him? Coby calmed down and asked," Why are you asking about him anyway?"

The shit eating grin on Luffy's face both Baylee and Coby worried. "I figured if he's good enough I'd ask him to join my crew!"

Baylee face-palmed and Coby said," Chasing him down is just plain reckless!"

"You never know, maybe he'll jump at the chance to join!"

"He's a bad enough guy that the Marines caught him! No way! Not a chance! You'll get us- OW! Why'd you hit me?"

"Cause I felt like it."

Baylee groaned as she pinched the bridge of her nose trying to swallow the thought of tracking down a guy who make a living of hunting pirates and asking him to join a pirate crew... But what were the chances of actually finding the exact Marine base that he was locked up in, anyways. She exhaled through her nose, feeling calmer now already. Luffy won't be able to find him and they'll move on.

Yeah, everything will be fine.


Hehehehe, poor Baylee...

Sorry, peoples, I know I haven't updated in ever but i'm alive now and i'll be trying to put more effort into this story and my maid-sama story as well. I've been pretty distracted with naruto, khr, and too many proto OCs to count... so, yeah...