Thieves' Contract

Yeah so I originally intended for this to go up on Sunday because it was my birthday, but my parents got it in their heads that I needed to work on Saturday so I didn't get any time to type this up then, anyway Sunday was my 18th birthday so happy late birthday to me! I'm now officially an adult, creepy... also I got a beta Kage Kitsune 14, thanks by the way, please read her stories (particularly Strings Attached) there really good. In the words of Squidward Tentacles 'Well...Here you go.'

"Pikachu speech"

'thoughts'

"speaking"

My eyes slowly blinked open. As my eyes began to focus I noticed two things, one I was on a soft surface two I could see a wood paneled ceiling. I gave a yawn and sat up. I immediately felt the protests of my sore limbs. I looked around the room as I tried rubbed my aching appendages as best I could with my newly shaped legs. The room was a merger between a living room, kitchen and dining room. I was sitting on a green three seat couch, in front of the couch was a small coffee table that had a vase of fresh flowers. With my newly improved nose I could smell them from my seat.

Halfway across the room, it shifted from a living room to a kitchen setting with the usual appliances lining the wall and a large six person table in the center taking up most of the kitchen's floor space. There were three doors, and two windows. Both windows were in the kitchen, one next to the door leading outside and one over the sink. The door to the left was slightly cracked open and dark inside, it looked like it could have been a bedroom. The third door was closed with the sound of running water coming from inside.

'Oh, someone is here. I wonder who picked me up?' I silently thought. The water turned off and out stepped the orange haired girl who looked very familiar. Her name was on the tip of my tongue, I just couldn't place it. Her tangerine colored hair barely brushed her shoulders framing her chocolate brown eyes, a fairly large bust with a nice curvature, some definite muscle mass on her and smooth hairless legs that completed her over all beauty. She was dressed in a white and blue striped shirt with a yellow mini skirt and small brown boots.

Her head turned to look at me sitting on the coffee table, her eyes brightened a bit when she saw me. "Oh, I see your awake," she said as she moved over to the couch across from me. She reached out with her hand and scratched behind my ears, I was a little ashamed to admit it, but I was enjoying the feeling a little too much and was disappointed when she pulled her hand back.

"I was really impressed with how you defeated those pirates," she said.

'Pirates?' I wondered. She looked at me like a child does a new toy. Suddenly I felt really nervous.

"So I was thinking about taking you with me and you could defend me against the pirates while (when or after would fit better here, at least in my opinion) I steal their treasure. Of course you going to need a name," she quietly said the last part, but my new ears heard it perfectly. She sat there thinking for awhile before turning to me, "What are you anyway?" she wondered off handedly.

"Fishcakes," I said knowing that no matter what I say it will just sound like I said "Pikachu."

She looked at me, "Pikachu? That's what you are?" I just nodded grimly, 'No use denying it,' I thought depressed.

"Huh, I never heard of a Pikachu before, so you're a Pikachu and you control lightning... your fur is soft...I know" she said snapping up, "I'll call you Cotton." she said in a 'matter of fact' way.

I face palmed and sweat dropped at the exact same time, 'what does that have anything to do with electricity?' I wonder before shaking my head vigorously causing her to frown a little, "You don't like the name?" lowly and dangerously. 'No way am I putting up with this,' I thought, I immediately started looking around the room for some ting to communicate to her with, but my vantage point wasn't very good, I quickly looked for a new spot and my eyes landed on the table.

I sprigged off the coffee table surprising the girl making her shriek a little the ask "Oi, where are you going," I ignored her and made my way to one of the chairs and hopped up on it then on to the table. Luck must have been with me because on the table was some paper and a pencil. I quickly pulled out a blank piece of paper and picked up the pencil. By this time the girl had made her way over to the table and watched me, "What are you doing?" she asked as I was trying to figure out how to hold the pencil comfortably. I choose a position and began a few experimental words.

The girl just watched curiously as I tried to write a little. When I finally felt comfortable and my penmanship was good enough, I began writing the question that was on my mind for the last 20 minutes.

"Hi, " I wrote, "My name is Josh Hopent, Who are you?" The girl looked stunned before numbly answering, "Nami," she said quietly. "My name is Nami," she said more loudly.

'Nami, 18th century houses, pirates... could it be?' I thought before quickly writing "Where am I?" she looked at me amazement written all over her face, "Where at Giovanni Village on Hamaguri Island," she said. 'Island,' I thought.

"What Sea are we in?" I wrote so fast that my penmanship was hardly readable. Nami raised an eyebrow questioning me, "East Blue," she said hesitantly.

'That confirms it,' I thought depressed. It must have shown on my face because Nami looked concerned before asking me, "Hey, are you alright?"

'No, I'm not alright, I'm stuck as a small electric rodent in a world full of stupidly strong pirates and Marines with no hope of returning home,' I fumed silently in my head. I gave a sad sigh, 'Well, not much I can do about it. maybe Nami could help m if I told her everything and I could help her with Arlong as payment,' I thought hopefully.

"Let me re-introduce myself. My name is Hopent Josh. I was once a human from another world," I stopped writing to judge her reaction, she had her hands folded and resting her chin on her thumbs blocking her mouth, she looked interested as far as I could tell so I continued.

"I was on my way home when this wall of sky blue energy appeared and hit me, I passed out not long after I was inside the wall and when I woke up I was a Pikachu. In my world Pikachu are sort of mythological creatures, that's how I know what I am, also, I know your story Nami, in my world you are famous." At that I stopped writing and looked at her. Her entire face radiated surprise with a hint of disbelief in her eyes.

"What do you mean I'm famous?" she asked suspiciously.

"I mean, millions of people know who you are and your whole back story, myself included." She leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms looking very cautious of me, "Prove it," she commanded.

I had already predicted her response, so I was already writing my proof, "Your name is Nami, You have an adopted older sister named Nojiko and a former Marine named Bellemere as an adopted mother. You live in Cocoyashi Village on Conomi Island, eight years ago you told your mother about your dream to draw a map of the entire world. Then a pirate named Arlong came and captured the island in his iron grip as well as kill your mother right in front of you and took you hostage because of your skills in Cartography. You made a deal with Arlong to buy your village from him for 100,000,000 Beli and have spent the last eight years building up roughly 85,000,000 Beli and are almost there and I want to help you finish,"

I dropped the pencil and let my tired forearms rest 'Man writing like this is a pain,' I thought as I looked at Nami. She looked pale and had a stunned look, "H-How do you know that?" she stuttered.

I picked up the pencil again, "I don't know how, but in my world there is a 'book' on your life and some people you come in contact with." I the flipped the page over and continued. "The book is worldwide famous, so I know I can help you in more ways than one, I can fight off any pirates that catch us and I can warn you about any bad events in the future." I wrote. Nami was looking better and starting to compose herself and was back to her negotiation mode. "So I assume you won't do this for free," she said. "what do you want in return," she said in her low threatening voice. No doubt thinking I wanted a cut of her loot, being surrounded by greedy people all her life it was understandable. "I just want to travel with you, I want food in my stomach, find a way to at least return to my human form and maybe get back to my world, and finally a friend in this cold hard world." I wrote.

I looked up at her, she was once again shocked, "R-Really that all you want?" I nodded and smiled a genuine smile.

"I don't want you to think you're alone anymore," I quickly wrote. When I looked back at her she was holding back what looked like long overdue tears. I began to panic a little I hadn't had much experience with girls.

"Ah, don't cry!" I quickly said as I ran over to her worried I had said something wrong. She began to laugh a little through her tears, she picked me up and hugged me squashing me into her massive bust, "Thank you," she said quietly. "You're the first friend I've had except my sister and Gen-san, I'd be happy to take you with me." she finished as I blushed (thank goodness for my red cheeks). My ears perked at that as she put me down on the table "Yahoo," I screamed, "I'm going to be a straw hat," I shouted in Pikachu and jumped up and down while Nami just smiled.

Rumble, came a roar from my stomach. I stopped and blushed again while Nami started laughing whole heartedly, I started to feel very self conscious after a few seconds. She sat there for a minute clutching her sides before stuttering out a thank you, "Hah...hah, Thank you Josh that's the first time in eight years that I have laughed like that," she said with the first smile I had seen her wear since I met her. "Well, It sounds like you're hungry, but all I have is fruit right now... so is that ok?" she asked me. I quickly hopped over to the pencil and wrote, "Well, from what I've read about Pikachu's is that Apples are like candy to them... So I'll try that if you have any."I wrote. Nami walked over and place a large red apple in front of me on the table before attending to her plate of tangerines.

Instinctively my mouth started to water, I quickly devoured the apple all the way to the core and lying down on my back and gave a content sigh. Shortly after I had finished d Nami had eaten her tangerines, she then leaned over to me, "So how do you feel about cruises?" 'Cruises huh,' I thought before smirking. 'Oh, boy we get to meet the dwarf planet of the sea.' I walked over to the paper, "I love 'em."

Well not quite as long as I had hoped but it was still decently long, just a filler for today. I promise the next chapter will have some action in it. Please review and tell me what you think about this story and my writing style, I actually got a writing mentor now who is a published writer (not very famous, mind you) so I hope that I can clean my stories up a little. Anyway, until next time, stay thirsty my friends. ;)