Hello faithful readers, I have finally finsihed writing chapter 3. Thanks for waiting and reading.
This chapter is just over 4,300 words, my longest ever.
Please read and review, thanks to Shadow Element 13 for being the second person to create a charcter.
I am still looking for people to be in the crew if you are interested, without more people this story will stop.
Well here you go, A New Pirate Crew Emerges: Chapter 3- Cats and Clowns.
Tairaa, Jiiku, Razar and Cora sat at a table in the local pub. They were not talking until Tairaa broke the silence.
"So, you said you would join my crew, but what is this condition?"
Well, its very simple," said Razar, pointing over at Cora, "Cora gets to come too."
"Her, but she looks so weak!" blurted Jiiku. Before Tairaa had time to hit Jiiku, Razar had grabbed him by the throat and was holding him in the air.
"What was that?" asked Razar resisting the urge to break Jiiku's neck.
Jiiku gasped for breath as he talked, "Noth-cough-nothing, I'm-gasp- sorry." With this Jiiku was dropped onto the floor. He lay on the floor attempting to catch his breath.
"Well, now that that's settled, I would be fine with Cora joining. She looks like a good swordsman, but can you cook or something?" asked Tairaa completely ignoring Jiiku.
"Well," started Cora. "I use to read lots of books on navigating. I have always wanted to explore the world." Cora looked over at Razar and continued. "But I don't want you doing this Razar, it is too dangerous, you could get hurt again."
"It's ok, I'll be fine as long as you're with me." Said Razar, as he looked her right in the eyes.
"Fine, but I won't like it." Said Cora as she turned around pouting.
"Yes!" screamed Tairaa as he jumped into the air. "Now our adventure begins, and since we are all friends, I guess I better show you this." Tairaa proceeded to reach into his pocket and pulled out a rolled up sheet of paper. He unrolled it to show a picture of him. Written below it was something that surprised everyone.
The poster read: "Wild Cat" Tairaa.
Bounty: 15,000,000 Beri
"WHAT! YOU HAVE A BOUNTY ALREADY!" yelled everyone at the table.
"How did you get that?" asked Jiiku, "And why are your eyes all creepy in this picture?"
With this remark, the rest of the crew looked more closely at the picture. Instead of the brown eyes he normally had. Tairra had a pair of very slim yellow eyes with slits for pupils.
"Look, that would involve talking about my past, and I don't think I'm ready to do that yet. Sorry" Tairaa said trying to avoid eye contact. Trying to get off this topic Tairaa started to talk again. "So, when do you think you can finish our ship?" he looked over at Razar.
"Well," Razar started. "Depending on how big of a ship we're talking about and what kind of things you want in this ship."
"Well, I want it to be a ship that can fit at least 10 people. It needs to have a kitchen, and all the necessities." Tairaa stopped talking so he could think. Jiiku quickly smacked his arm. "Oh ya, and some sort of aquarium that can go out into the ocean."
"Why?" asked Razar with a puzzled look on his face.
"Jiiku has a pet shark. I also need a place for my pets." Said Tairaa while petting the two tigers sitting beside him.
"Well if that's all, I can have it done in a couple of days. Now I just need to get the supplies. I'll need lots of wood…" Razar continued to list items as he walked out of the bar.
"I better go with him." Cora said leaving Tairaa and Jiiku sitting in the bar.
"Well, I'm gonna go train, want to come? I've been working on this new attack." Tairaa asked Jiiku.
"No thanks, I'll let it be a surprise." Jiiku responded, "I have to go see Birdie anyway."
"Alright whatever, come on Jeimuzu and Roje." Tairaa motioned to his tigers as he walked out of the bar.
It has been several days since Razar began work on the ship. Tairaa was walking down the street to his usually training ground, when Cora came up to him and started to pull him towards the docks.
"What's the rush?" asked Tairaa still being dragged
"Its finished, Razar finished making your ship, you have to come see." Cora said with excitement in her voice.
Soon they arrived at the dock to see Jiiku and Razar already there. Sitting on the water was a ship covered by a tarp. Razar saw that Tairaa had arrived and he began to talk.
"Well, now that you are finally here, it is time that reveal this thing. Pirates, I give you, Poseidon's Fury!" Razar yelled as he grabbed the tarp and pulled it off the ship.
Under the tarp was a medium sized ship. (Bigger than the Going Merry but not quite as big as 1000 Sunny) It had two masses that extended high into the air. The deck had a sort of carpet over it to make it soft to walk around on. On the front of the boat was a carving of a cat head with claw marks on its face and fangs showing from its mouth.
"Wow, this thing is amazing, I have to see inside." And with that Tairaa disappeared into the interior of the ship.
Once he went through the door leading inside, the staircase branches off into two separate parts. All of the bedrooms that the crew would sleep in were in one part. Including the Captain's Quarters that had a map of the surrounding area posted on the wall. A desk for writing and planning, and a Den Den Mushi that connected to a speaker on the outside of the boat to announce things to the crew. Lastly it had a small room attached to it for Jeimuzu and Roje.
Down the other staircase were all of the places where the crew would be eating and working, the kitchen, the infirmary, the weapons room, the aquarium for Birdie, and an entertainment room.
Everyone was waiting outside when Tairaa came over the speaker system. "This ship is awesome, you are the best Razar."
" I know," responded Razar. "But thanks anyway."
After everyone had explored the ship and all the supplies had been loaded. The crew began the most important discussion of all.
"So guys," Tairaa started, "What shall we call ourselves. We need a name."
"Oh, I got…" Jiiku started to talk but was cut off by Tairaa
"A name that isn't something stupid like the Super Awesome Pirates." He said in an annoyed tone.
"How did you know?" asked Jiiku surprised Tairaa had guessed his suggestion perfectly.
"Well, since your bounty is 'Wild Cat' Tairaa. Why don't we just call ourselves the 'Wild Cat Pirates?'" Razar said looking over at Tairaa.
"I have no problems with that. Any objections?" Tairaa asked quickly scanning everyone. When no one said anything he spoke again. "Than it is decided, from this day on, we will be known as the Wild Cat Pirates!"
Everyone cheered at this great achievement.
"But now, we have to make a flag." Said Cora, "We can't be a pirate crew without a flag."
The crew sat around for a while before finally coming up with a design.
" I got it!" yelled Jiiku, everyone turned surprised he had thought of something first. "We should get a Jolly Roger and in its eyes put the kind of eyes Tairaa has on his bounty poster, and on the end of the crossbones put tiger claws. How about that?" Everyone stared at Jiiku with their mouths hanging open.
"That is brilliant." Said Tairaa than he continued, "Can anyone here actually draw that?"
"Sure, I can." Said Razar, "I have to put designs on ships all the time, drawing a flag shouldn't be that hard, right?"
Razar was right and within a couple of minutes the crew had raised their flag to the top of the mass. They all got on the boat and Tairaa yelled out, "Now let's get going, I can't become Pirate King just sitting here!" and with that the crew set off.
The crew had been out at sea for several days. Tairaa came over the speaker to make an announcement, "Guys, can everyone report to the Captain's Quarters please." Everyone made their way over to the Captain's room and went inside. There stood Tairaa looking at the map on his wall. He called everyone over. "Okay guys, I have found an island due west of our position that we can dock at and re-supply. We will stay for a couple days and hopefully we can get another crewmember because this island is very close to Reverse Mountain. Alright, lets go!"
Just before reaching the island, Jiiku spotted something to the side of the ship. "Tairaa!" he yelled, "there is another ship out there."
"What kind of ship?" asked Tairaa praying it was not the Marines.
"I can't tell, they have their masses and flags down, but it doesn't look like the marines." Responded Jiiku.
"Well that's a relief, let's just leave them." Tairaa and his crew continued for the nearby island. When they arrived at the island the crew tied up the ship and set out for the local store.
The crew was just outside the village in a forest when a voice came from around them and began to talk. "You there, stop!" demanded the voice.
"Damn, we're already being ambushed, we haven't even been pirates for a week!" yelled Jiiku.
" I know who you are, you are 'Wild Cat' Tairaa. I have one thing to say to you." Suddenly the voice vanished Tairaa began to scan the area.
"Everyone get ready, he could come from anywhere." Tairaa continued to look left and right and than he heard a noise from above, he lifted his head and screamed, "everyone move!"
The crew jumped out of the way just as a man slammed into the ground from the sky, leaving a large hole in the ground. The man wore a blue button up shirt, black jeans, black boot, and sunglasses. There was a scar going across what the crew could see of his left eye. He was about 6 feet tall with tanned skin. His hair was light blue and went down just past his shoulders.
"What the hell do you want?" asked Razar still in his fighting pose.
"What I want…is to join you guys!" answered the man.
With this everyone fell to the ground in surprise. Tairaa got up and dusted himself off. "Why do you want to join us, kid?"
" Hey, I'm not a kid, my name is Akira, Akira Kido. I have always been an adventurer, and being a pirate would be the biggest adventure of my life, and you look like you have potential," responded Akira.
"Alright, prove to me that you deserve to be a pirate, if you can hit me once, than I might think about letting you join the crew. But no weapons." Said Tairaa eyeing the pistol that Akira had strapped to his waist.
Tairaa jumped back, and got into his fighting pose ready to dodge any attack. When he looked at Akira, he was looking down at the ground shaking his hands. Before Tairaa could figure out what was going on, a large piece of earth was ripped from the ground in the shape of a fist. But it was not being held by anything, it was just floating.
"Tsu Tsu Fist!" (Earth Earth Fist) screamed Akira as he punched the rock and it went hurtling toward Tairaa. Not expecting this kind of attack Tairaa was surprised but still dodged it by jumping to the side.
"So a Devil's Fruit user, huh?" Tairaa said in a moderate tone. "This should get interesting."
Akira slammed his foot onto the ground and a rock shaped like a foot came out, he quickly spun around kicked it screaming "Tsu Tsu Kick!" as the rock flew towards Tairaa.
Tairaa saw this one coming and did a back flip over the rock. He landed on the floor a bit surprised, "I never realized how hard it is to fight without fusing." He said, "But I don't want to hurt this guy."
Tairaa turned back to see Akira had vanished, he reappeared behind Tairaa and sent another fist towards Tairaa. Tairaa simply stuck his hand out and caught the rock in mid air. It was still traveling and started to push him back. Tairaa screamed and pushed down on the rock and slammed it into the ground, shattering it into pieces.
Just before Akira was about to attack again, Tairaa held up his hand and yelled "Enough!" when Akira had settled down he continued, "I see you have great power, that last attack could have really injured me if I hadn't been careful. So if it is ok with everyone else, I'd like to welcome Akira to the "Wild Cat" Pirates."
"That's great!" yelled Akira as he jumped in the air.
"Hold on a sec buddy. I want to hear more about your abilities." Razar asked from the sideline.
"Sure," responded Akira. "I'd be happy to explain them. See when I was young; I ate the Tsu Tsu no mi. (Earth Earth Fruit), giving me the ability to control earth. I'm also a very skilled marksman, I use this pistol that I got when I was young, it belonged to my father."
"A marksman huh?" said Jiiku, "Well let's see it, I want to see you hit that tree way down there." Jiiku pointed down a clearing in the forest and at the end about 300 yards away was a tree.
"Fine, if you insist." Said Akira as he pulled out his pistol, pointed it straight ahead and fired, easily hitting the tree dead in the center.
"But I have to tell you again, this isn't a game." Said Tairaa in a serious tone. "We are going to the Grand Line, it will be really tough."
"Come on, you fought me and you still don't trust me, how can I prove to you that I'm serious about doing this?" asked Akira getting really annoyed.
"Well you could fight those pirates that just landed on the beach." Said Jiiku pointing out towards the shore. Seeing a band of pirates get off their ship and head towards the crew.
"WAIT WHAT?!" screamed everyone, "why are you just telling us this now!?"
"I thought you guys noticed." Said Jiiku ready to run if the crew got angry and attacked him.
"Well," said Tairaa, "This just got a lot more interesting." He slowly began to walk out of the forest and towards the pirates walking towards him.
The crew followed behind him until the two crews were meters apart. Tairaa scanned the opposing crew; there were plenty of members, but three he recognized above everyone else.
"Well, look who it is. I believe you are called Buggy the Clown." Said Tairaa pointing a pirate with a big red nose and a clown outfit. "And you would be Alvida," beside Buggy stood a large woman carrying a club. "And you… are Captain Kuro?" Tairaa was confused, seeing the famous Captain Kuro, who was suppose to have been executed alive.
"Yes, I am, and I believe you are the one called 'Wild Cat' Tairaa." Said Kuro adjusting his glasses with his palm.
"I sure am, now let's skip the formalities, what are you here for?" asked Tairaa
"Well, we are here to do what pirates do best, plunder and steal." Responded Buggy
"Well, I don't think that will be happening if we can say anything about it!" yelled Jiiku as he jumped at Buggy. A fist that was supposed to hit Buggy in the stomach missed when Buggy's body came apart and started to float around. "My god, what is with you pirates and your Devil Fruits?" The two jumped over to the side and began to fight.
"Hey, look what we got here a turtle, maybe I can cook him up and make soup." Came a voice from the side. It was Alvida, and she began to charge for Razar. Razar easily saw through the woman's pathetic attempt to hit him and punched her in the gut. This sent her flying all the way down to where to ships were, Razar ran down, jumping over Buggy's crew to get to his opponent.
"Well, I guess that leaves you and me." Said Tairaa as he looked at Kuro. Suddenly Kuro pulled out a pair of gloves with long swords on the each finger. "Ah, claws, well you're not the only one who's got some. Time to show everyone my new technique." Tairaa held his hands together and the symbol appeared on his hands, Roje and Jeimuzu knew what was going on and ran to his side. "FUSE!" screamed Tairaa as he placed his hands on the tigers.
Instead of the regular fusion with just tiger legs, Tairaa now had tiger claws. I can't hold this for long, Tairaa thought to himself. Better end this quickly. Suddenly both Kuro and Tairaa vanished in a flash.
The only two left were Cora and Akira, both staring down the remaining members of Buggy's crew. "You take the right, and I'll take the left." Said Cora as she took her sword out of the sheath. She ran forward and began to slice at the crewmembers. Akira tabbed the ground and only a small pebble came out and floated into the air.
"What are you gonna do with that? Give me a boo-boo!" said one of the crewmembers as he began to laugh. Suddenly small pebble was punched by Akira and punctured the shoulder of the pirate who was laughing; he instantly fell to the ground. "Tsu Tsu Bullet, bet that hurt." Akira said as the man was on the ground crying in pain. "Now lets see how this does."
Akira jumped into the air and slammed into the floor, suddenly many small and medium sized rocks came out of the ground. "Tsu Tsu Gatling!" suddenly all the rocks went flying towards the crew, hitting almost all of them and knocking them out. Only two people were left standing. A fat guy and a skinny guy in cat costumes trembling in fear.
"Please, don't hurt us, we want to live, LIVE!" screamed the skinny one. He paused for a moment and waited for Akira to lower his guard just slightly. "Not!' he said as he disappeared and reappeared behind Akira holding the antique pistol Akira usually had strapped to his waste.
Akira started to shake with rage as he saw his family gun being held by the hands of an unworthy pirate. The skinny pirate began to talk again. "Oh, I'm sorry, is this special. Well the truth is I don't care, I'm Sham and that's Buji, and we are gonna kick your…" but before Sham could finish his sentence, a large stone fist was slammed into his face, sending him flying.
Akira grabbed his gun as it was falling to the ground and put it back into its holster. "That's one down." He said, "Now who's next?"
Buji, angry from seeing his brother defeated so easily charged at Akira. Akira had no time to bring up something to block the attack and was sent flying when a fist connected with the side of his head. He stumbled as he got up. The sunglasses he usually wore cracked, and the lens covering his left eye completely shattered. Revealing a red eye, staring in anger at Buji.
"No, there's no way, it can't be… its Akuma, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!" screamed Buji as he attempted to run for the ship.
"There's no way your getting away now, the party has just begun." Akira punched the ground and sent a shockwave toward Buji, when the shockwave reached him; many rocks came out of the ground and trapped him in place. Akira stomped on the ground, lifting a huge bolder out of the ground and jumping on it. He rode it into the air just above Buji.
He than punched the bolder and all of it but the part Akira was standing on shattered. These pieces flew around Akira and attached to him. He jumped off the bolder and fell towards the trapped Buji. "Tsu Tsu Missile!" he screamed as he slammed against Buji, knocking him out.
Elsewhere, Jiiku was fighting against Buggy. Buggy launched a fist at Jiiku, which he caught in mid air. Buggy had several daggers in between his fingers. Jiiku forcefully opened Buggy's palm and took the daggers, "Hope you don't mind, I'm just gonna borrow these. He quickly took the daggers and charged at Buggy, he slashed the daggers towards Buggy's arm, but it separated from his body. Just what Jiiku was expecting. He quickly spun around and punched the separated arm, making Buggy cry out in pain. Jiiku took this opportunity to punch Buggy in the face with all his strength, knocking him out.
"Well that was pathetic, I can't believe you're a captain." Jiiku said as he walked away. Suddenly a flying hand grabbed onto Jiiku's leg, and Buggy spoke. "I'm not that easy to beat." Buggy rose to his feet and charged at Jiiku. Jiiku not anticipating him to get back up had no time to block.
Suddenly Razar came flying from the side and hit Buggy with his shell. Razar got up and rubbed his head. "That woman is really annoying, I can't get a solid hit, but I have an idea." Said Razar not realizing he was sitting on top of an unconscious Buggy. "Jiiku, I need you to kick me."
"Sweet, I have been waiting for this." Said Jiiku in a happy tone. Razar stood up and pulled his arms and legs inside is shell. Suddenly swords came out of all 4 of the spots.
"Okay, when my head goes in and a sword comes out, kick me towards that woman." Razar instructed Jiiku. Seeing that Alvida was slowly approaching, Razar put his head in his shell and a sword popped out. "Five Sword Style: Spinning Shell Blade!" Razar yelled as Jiiku ran up and kicked him towards Alvida. While in mid-air, Razar began to spin and flew towards Alvida.
This attack surprised Alvida, but she still lifted her club into the air in an attempt to block the attack. But with the speed Razar was moving at, the club was cut in half like butter. The swords hit Alvida across the chest, a slash appeared and blood spat out, Alvida than collapsed on the ground.
A large scream was than heard from the direction of Cora's fight. "CORA!" screamed Razar as he ran over to help.
Cora had easily fought through the weak crewmembers, but was surprised when a man on a unicycle and a man with a lion charged at her. She was caught off guard and the man on the unicycle managed to cut her leg, making her unable to move.
"Well, I'm sorry I have to kill such a beautiful face." Said the man on the unicycle holding Cora's chin.
"You get your sticking hands off her." Came Razar's voice.
"Razar, I'm sorry, they caught me by surprise." Said Cora trying not to look scared."
"Its ok, this will be over quickly." Said Razar, as he looked at the lion tamer. A quick punch to the stomach and he was already done.
The man on the unicycle charged at Razar and drew his sword; he stabbed it out at Razar. Razar easily stepped to the side. Before the man had time to pull back his sword, Razar stuck out his beak and bit the sword in half.
"Oh boy," was all the man could say before he was uppercutted into the air. While in mid-air, Jiiku appeared out of nowhere, brought his leg up in the air and dropped in hard on the man's stomach. This sent him plummeting towards the ground. Now that everyone was done fighting, they looked over to watch Tairaa fight Kuro, knowing not to get involved in the fight.
A large cut suddenly appeared across Tairaa's chest. He leaned over to catch his breath. Damn, this guy is strong, and I can't keep up this fusion more much longer, Tairaa thought.Tairaa looked over to see Kuro, also out of breath because of the multiple cuts on his body.
"I think that this will be decided with the next attack." Said Tairaa, seeing as they were both out of breath.
"I believe so too." Said Kuro, and with that he charged at Tairaa not having the energy to move at super speed anymore. Kuro swiped a claw at Tairaa, but instead of dodging it, Tairaa stuck out his arm and the claws cut into his skin. Tairaa took that moment to wrap his arm around Kuro's and immobilize him.
"This ends now!" said Tairaa as he punched Kuro into the air. Tairaa got into his regular dashing position and jumped fast into the air spinning rapidly. He stuck his arms out as he was coming down and slammed into Kuro who was still in mid-air. "Tiger Pounce!" Tairaa screamed as he pushed Kuro towards the ground at high speeds. Everyone covered their face as Kuro hit the ground sending dust and rocks flying everywhere. Everyone ran over to Tairaa and saw him standing in front of a large crater with an unconscious Kuro in it. Roje and Jeimuzu now separated from him.
He looked over at the crew and said, "Look, I won." Before passing out and falling on the ground.
Thanks for reading, please review for comments, not just if you want to be in the story.
Thanks to deathshark and Shadow Element 13 for helping me with ideas and making their characters.
Remember, I still need more crewmembers, you can be a cook, musician, doctor, or almost any other position you can think of.
