Chapter 2

/edited also/

During the after-lunch snackage of meat that was going on in the kitchen, everyone but Zoro, who was taking a nap in the crow's nest, kept asking random questions about Skie and the world she came from.

"Was there meat in your world?"

"Oh yeah, tons."

"Are there any oceans?"

"Seven."

"Wow."

"Any pretty girls?"

"Not really the right person to ask."

"What's your favorite color?"

"Blue."

"Are there pirates in your world?"

"Yep. But they're not very famous anymore. The age of pirates was a looong time ago."

"Well that sucks."

"How many pretty girls?"

"Ummmm…"

"Shut up Sanji."

"Of course Nami-Swan!"

"No pirates eh?" Luffy sat back in his chair, tearing a chunk of meat off a piece of bone. "So what do you guys do for fun there?"

"Um…well, there's a lot. We have video games, movies, TV, books, stick fighting, ice cream, candy…the list goes on. But I doubt you'll know what most of those are." Skie grinned at her new shipmate's confused faces.

"What are video games?" asked Usopp.

"Uh, there sort of like…uh…" Skie tried to think of a way to explain the awesome technological genius of video games. "They're sort of like a mini portable game, that you can play by yourself…yeah."

"Movies?" asked Luffy.

"Sort of like a storybook without a cover, and the people move. It's like a play, but the people aren't really there."

"Stick fighting sounds pretty interesting." Said Nami, slapping Luffy's hand away after he tried to steal some of her food. "Is it just fighting with a stick?"

"Oh it is, and yeah pretty much. It's my favorite sport evah. That's all me and my pals used to play back at home. But my parents banned it because they thought it was too violent." She stabbed a fork through her food, annoyed just thinking about it.

"Why would you want to fight against your friends though? I mean, it was too violent, then why would you do it on purpose?"

"'Cuz me and my friends are weird like that. And, the team my team fights against aren't really my friends…they used to be though." She grinned, "And they call themselves pirates. They aren't pirates. Pirates rock, and they don't." she said matter-of-factly.

"We take that as a compliment." Said Sanji, "After all we are pirates."

She already knew that of course, but she tried to act surprised. "Wow, really? Cool." She went to take another bite of her food, but raised an eyebrow to see that half of it was missing. She raised her eyes to Luffy, who was trying to look innocent. "Yeah…that was mine." She quickly leaned over the table, stabbed her fork into the biggest leftover chunk of meat on his plate (which wasn't very big) and put it in her mouth before he could get it back.

"Gnyaa!" Luffy whined, "My meeeeeeeeat."

"You took mine first."

Usopp laughed, Skie joining in.

She stopped, something clicking in her mind. "Hey wait…you're pirates…and I'm one of the crew now…" a wide grin slowly spread across her face. "That means I'm a pirate too!" she jumped out of her seat, whooping and cheering. A bit slow, wasn't she?

She calmed down, "This is sooooo cool! I'm a pirate!" she said happily.

"Yeah, but being a pirate isn't easy, you're gonna have to learn how to defend yourself a little bit at least." said Nami.

"Nami-San's right. We're always getting ourselves into all kinds of fights, can you do anything?"

"I can hit people over the head with a stick pretty well." Skie said proudly.

"Yeah, you might be a good distraction." Usopp rolled his eyes a bit.

Skie stuck her tongue out at him, who stuck his tongue out back.

"Hey Skie?" Nami said.

"Yep?"

"I'm pretty good with a staff-" she was cut off by Sanji.

"Nami-swan, you are not just good, you are perfect! A goddess!"

Skie snickered, slapping a hand over her mouth to keep herself from laughing as hard as she wanted to. No need to laugh like a hyena, like she usually did when something was super funny, and weird them out even more.

"Anyways, Skie, maybe I could teach you a little more about using a staff, then you could defend yourself if we get attacked anytime soon." She said, smiling.

"That would be awesome!" Skie said happily. She glared at Luffy, "DON'T TOUCH MY FOOD!" she roared, pointing at Luffy, who had been slowly reaching across the table.

"Awww, but mine's all gooone." He whined, slumping back in his chair.

"I would have given you some if you just asked." said Skie, taking her plate off the table to eat it standing up.

"Can I pleeease have some of your food?"

"No." she said, her mouth full.

"Luffy! Never ask a lady something like that!" growled Sanji.

Luffy just huffed and put his head on the table.

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After they were all done eating, everyone but Sanji, who was doing the dishes, walked out on the deck.

"So, how do you guys fight?" she asked. She wanted to see Luffy's stretchy power for real. She also wanted to see Sanji and Zoro fight, but that could wait.

"I can stretch." Said Luffy.

"What do you mean?" she tried to sound confused.

"Show her the pistol!" said Usopp.

"On what?"

Skie looked around, seeing Zoro leaning over the edge of crow's nest, fast asleep. "Try knocking him back into the crows nest." She said, pointing up at the unsuspecting Zoro.

"He's gonna get mad." Said Luffy, hesitating.

"Don't hit him full on, just brush him close enough so that he flies forward!" said Usopp, grinning and looking up at the swordsman.

"Okay!" Luffy wound up his arm, "Gomu Gomu no PISTOL!" he yelled, and his rubber arm shot forward. It hit Zoro just right, catching him in the shoulder, and he flew back with a crash to the bottom of the crow's nest.

"OW! WHAT THE HELL!" came his voice, "Whoever did that is going to DIE!" he roared.

"Hey Nami, when do you think we can start those staff lessons?" asked Skie, backing up away from the nest while laughing.

"How about right now?" she said, hustling off to her room, a wide grin on her face.

"Good idea!" Skie followed her, leaving Usopp and Luffy to fend for themselves with the infuriated Zoro.

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