whoa...can't believe my autumn break flew past me so darn fast O.o
I got like 4 days left and I haven't done ANYTHING except being on the internet^^
haha :D (god I'm so doomed...!)
1st STAGE
Several months later - after the takedown of Sir Crocodile – on the last island stop ahead of the infamous "White Sea", the ocean in the sky.
This place seemed to be almost magically attracting past traveling fishermen and people sailing across the sea. In almost every tavern stories about the ocean in the sky and about the 'God' Enel were told. Every chamber available was reserved and even the worst Pubs were already flowing over with curious onlookers who believed in those rumors.
Some of them already left the island after staying for only one night, because they didn't believe in any of those stories, probably out of gutlessness or maybe even in assurance of never being able to make it through 'up there'. Hence it wasn't really a wonder that pubs became drinking holes at night in which a mass of pirates spent their time.
One of those pirates, who had seemed to nest here just like vermin, was 'Bellamy the Hyena'.
He and his crew were pestering and besetting most of the whole island and you could almost call them the most feared pirate crew on this freckle of land.
But not today on this evening when the Strawhats had thrown their anchor on the shore of Mock Town.
It was Luffy, who just couldn't resist the rumors about the sea in the sky.
As a result, the ones suffering were his crew who just got dragged along whether they wanted or not. Just like always, the Strawhats somehow managed to get into disputes which most of the time ended up as brawls which preferably resulted in worn out teeth and bloody noses.
That's why it wasn't possible for them to not end up in a conflict with the Bellamy-Pirate Crew. But it wasn't for the Strawhats themselves to let it get this far in the first place.
It occurred in a bar in the center of the island. Just like every evening since a few months, the pub was literally overflowing with drunken pirates. They drank, spread rumors- which naturally became more unbelievable the longer the night lasted – and of course, they rabbled and beat each other up.
You could already hear the jolly mood from far away and as the Strawhats finally arrived, they suddenly had to dodge a splintering glass bottle which just came flying from across the bar out of the blue.
Luffy grinned widely and declared full-throated: "Is there anyone who knows something about Sky island?!"
Instant silence, accompanied by dry coughs and suspicious stares aimed at the obvious newcomers.
Sanji and Usopp exchanged questioning looks.
Most of the pirates in the bar were confusedly looking at each other and slowly started to laugh completely stumped.
A loud snorting laugh got out of one of the dark corners of the room.
"What did you say…?" a smelly pirate with greasy hair who sat between a group of sailors snorted with laughter and had risen from his seat.
Luffy was eyeing at him as he continued to speak.
"You believe in those sucked dry myths?! What do you want from that place?!"
The Strawhat cocked his head to the side and announced with adventurous voice:
"I'm gonna become the king of pirates and find 'One Piece'!"
Now every guests jaws dropped according to the words the young pirate brat had just stated loud and clear.
Even the bad smelling pirate couldn't help but stare at the pirate as if his eyebrows were to fall off his face. Finally he got hold of himself again and burst into loud grunting laughter.
"Find One Piece – fuckingOne Piece…?! You?! Don't make me laugh!" he jumped up with his finger stretched out.
"Our captain and us have been here for ages and you little brat are tynna tell me you of all people would have what it takes to find One Piece?! Listen-"he snapped his head up "You're poles apart reaching that goal, you'll need way more than just the bare rumor of SkyIsland! Not even the most foolish ordinary seaman would believe those!"
Unimpressed and while picking his nose, Luffy countered:
"Heeh? Your captain must be lacking nuts then."
Zoro and the other crew members grinned as the pirates' face now warmed up and his head started to swell up to an unsanitary size because of anger.
"You wanna tell me I'm a chicken-hearted dog?!"
He pulled out his gun and pointed at Luffy.
"Let's see if you still wanna shoot your fat mouth in a lil' while!"
Without delay, Zoro covered for his captain and drew out his katana.
The pirate of Bellamys' crew pulled the trigger.
"No weapons!" it sounded from behind the bar and the gun slipped out of the frozen pirates' hand in an instant.
The whole guests in the bar stared at the person in the back of the bar who had just raised its voice.
The girl behind the counter stared bored into an emptied bottle of rum which she held inside her hand.
The pirate was staring at her with unbelieving eyes, grabbed his weapon, stepped up to the bar and was now menacing the girl with his gun pointed at her temple.
The other pirates from his crew had also stood up and loud shocked murmuring sounds from the guests echoed through the bar.
"Oh darling, what did your cutie-pie lips just say? " The pirate now asked the girl.
"Weapons aren't allowed here, just like that sign over there says." She answered with condescending gaze.
"Oh-ho…" he said with perverted grin. „You don't say."
He seized the girl at her shirt and tore at her aperture.
"Oi-!" Sanji spoke up by taking a step forward while frown lines made their way on his forehead. But the affair just cleared itself after a few seconds.
Just as Zoro was about to step in, the waitress grabbed the pirate at his flange and jumped onto the counter in one go and was now standing above that thug.
Out of confusion he had dropped his gun.
- Her View -
I was on rant and rave! Did that guy just grab at my cleavage?
Okay. Time to die, BOY!
I clutched my hands with full force and strangled him until he was unable to breathe.
"That's it?" I inquired sightly unaffected by the fierce situation.
But that idiot still didn't want to answer.
Fine! By now, his face had gotten kind of a bluish color and his eyes started squinting, so I just push him off me.
He crawled off to his so called "Crew" as anxious as an infant.
Wo-hoo, as if I'd let you, BUDDY!
I slid off the counter on which I still was perching on and just kicked that filthy pirate off to the exit.
"Shove off!" I called after him and tapped my hands on the dishcloth that still hung over my shoulder.
Well, let's continue with the drinks, I thought and tramped back to the counter. The remaining Bellamy-Crew did as their idiotic captain and backed off to the departure doors.
But someone grabbed at my shoulders and pressed my back against the wall.
"Well babe? How about us?" a drunk, fat, giant-like pirate asked me with his slimy voice "Something as an apology?" his fat face came closer. Too close!
"If it's another bowl of sake you want, just forget it, your breath already reeks of a long-before died animal! " I spat right at his face.
"We-he-heell…!" he babbled and grinned down to me.
Okay then…
His nose broke with an exceedingly penetrant crunch as my fist just happened to encounter right with his face.
He grappled me at my hip and jerked me around.
In my opinion, this definitely took too much time. What would the other guests and the new guys who had just got in, think of this bad hospitality of mine?
"After all, let's do it the hard way, Shi-chan!" he jellified his speech. I promptly grabbed an empty bottle of rum and creamed it over his head.
I sighed exasperated and walked light-footed over his flabby, unconscious body.
"So" I said and turned towards the new guests.
- Her View / END -
The girl turned around and faced the Strawhats with bugged out glance. With mistrustful eyes, she gazed at the 7 pirates in front of her.
So this were the well-known Strawhat Pirates.
The captain didn't seem to be one of the brightest, but she knew, he didn't have his bounty just for nothing. With patronizing look, she let her eyes take a glance of any single one of them.
But then, she tilted her head to the side and surprise made its way to her face.
"Is that you, Sanji-kun?!" the girl asked the cook who now went a step closer to her.
"Shi-chan!" he called as he finally figured out who the person facing him was.
"I knew It could've only been you!" he now tear-jerked with eyes shaped as hearts and wobbled amorous with his arms.
"NOW you notice?!" the swordsman roared at the cook and punched him straight onto his head where after the situation escalated and they soon after broke out into a fight.
The waitress, who had just wanted to ask the cook something, let her head hang with a sigh and lead the remaining crew to a table and went to get their drinks.
After a short while in which she had given advice about the island to their captain, Luffy asked: "Do you know something about SkyIsland? We're gonna sail to heaven!"
"Not we but you "Nami butted in and gave him a noxious look.
The waitress answered: "I don't know more than what you can get out of those rumors."
"But you're living on this island, aren't you?" the navigator piped up again.
"More or less, but I'm here rather unintentionally, not because of the Sky warriors' treasure which you pirates lust after." She countered.
The navigator jerked her head around.
"Giant treasure, you say?" she now asked with shiny eyes.
The waitress couldn't really recall to have mentioned whether the treasure was 'giant' or not, but she still replied.
"Of course. What do you think you pirates are interested in SkyIsland for in the first place? Bet it's not because of the beautiful view up there." She eyed at the crew with hunched brow.
Zoro, who had been sitting in a little distance away from them just holding a jug of beer, now rose up his voice.
"Do you know how to get there?!
The girl turned her glance over to him and shortly examined him, whereupon he avoided her aggravating gaze.
"No, like I already told you, I know just as much as you do."
With his swords leaned onto his shoulder, the swordsman looked at the girl for a second and then drank the rest of his beer and emptied his jug in one go.
Nami sighed in disappointment and said:"Luffy, we should get going, or how long do you plan to stay here wasting time?"
Luffy looked at her thoughtfully before answering.
"Are you coming with us?" he asked the girl and his whole crew sighed in unison.
"Luffy! Not again!"
But the waitress only shook her head and stood up holding Zoros empty jug and replied.
"No, the sky doesn't concern me; you better go and ask for information in other bars. At least someone should know what you gotta do."
Luffy nodded grinning and the waitress walked around the counter again and put the by now 6th jug of beer in front of the swordsmans face.
Zoro took it without looking at her, emptied it in one go and rose from his seat next to the bar.
"Luffy? We'd better get going."
The captain nodded in agreement and turned to the waitress with a big grin "When we get back, we're gonna take you along with us!" With this, he went in front of the others to the exit of the now completely empty bar.
But shortly before he really left the pub he turned around again and called out to the waitress in a hurry.
"-And thanks!"
Sanji came jumping at the waitress for a last time.
"Bye-bye, Shi-chaaan!"
The girl slapped the palm of her hand right into the cooks face and stopped him abruptly in mid-air.
"You better not show up here again, Sanji!" she told him with a crooked smirk.
The last to leave the bar was Zoro as he followed after his crew.
A high pitched swinging noise sound up and the swordsman jerked his head around to see where the noise came from.
He stared at the sharp edged chipped shard of glass which stuck in the doorframe and had just missed him by a hair.
"Next time, I won't be in the mood to miss." The girl hissed cold as ice as he stared at her with furrowed brows.
"You'd better leave your swords outside, Roronoa…" emphasing the last word.
She stood in front of the counter and gazed at him through her rigid light-green eyes.
With serious glance he fixated the girl and crooked his lips to his typical shark-grin, as he noticed the smashed bottle of rum in her hand.
Even as he had already left the bar, the young girl kept watching after the spinach-green swordsmans head.
Stage 1 – END -
authors note :
jup, that's the second chapter :P
a little bit longer than the first but not that much^^
I had some trouble publishing it because I didn't get the process of updating this at first ...ehehe *sweats*
so umm...I hope I'll be able to upload chapter 2 and 3 as soon as I've transalted them into english. ( hope it doesn't take too long :/)
Well, hope you liked it and see u next time! ;)