Chapter 2: The Crazy Teen Pt.1
Darrius sat up in the crow's nest looking over his self-drawn map of the East Blue. He skimmed over an area of the map with his finger and it lingered a bit around a specific island. He judged the distance from the previous island 'Dreab' to this one, then their position between the two. He saw they were not excessively far from the island and jumped down to inform Faith.
"Oy, Captain." He moseyed his way over to Faith who was reading a book on the upper deck.
She glanced at him, then took off her sliver framed reading glasses and closed the book to give him her attention. "What is it, Darrius?"
"we should be coming up on an island in about... less than a day."
Faith drummed on her book lightly with her fingers. "Great. We can explore it and have some fun. What's the island called?"
He smiled lazily. "How you'd you like to go to the birthplace of the second pirate king? The Goa kingdom."
Faith stopped tapping on the book. She took a sharp breath and her lips quivered as she tried to hold back a big smile. "That would be absolutely amazing!"
"I knew you would." He turned on one leg with his hands behind his back and his foot in the air. "I'm going to tell the others and gather some things."
He jokingly marched in to the bunking halls letting the door swing in behind him. Faith laid her book on her stomach and gazed up into the sky. Her mind was livid. 'A month free and already this journey has been wonderful! I already get to visit the birthplace of our current pirate. Dad would be happy to hear that good fortune is smiling down on us and I hope it lasts.'
She shook her head. 'No, that's stupid. Things always go bad… for me at least. This is just the gracing period before the problems that are bound to come any time some. That's why I need to be ready. For any unfortunate soul that ends up in my mess and myself.'
She put her glasses back on and lifted one of the many bookmarkers that stuck out from all sides of the book. It flipped the pages to a section of the large book title "Surrounded by soldiers in an open area: Strategy #16". Taking a pencil, she began rapidly drawing sketches and writing plans.
"We are approaching an island to the north, Captain!" Shouted Darrius.
"Alright!" Faith, who was at the helm, replied back. She tuned the wheel slightly right and the ship gradually turned the direction. Gazing down to the lower deck where Jason and Jessica were lounging cleaning their swords. "Jessie, how are we on supplies. "
Without looking up at her sister, she thumbs up. "The food and water we found on the ship should last us for about three weeks." She continued to pat her swords with a cotton swab.
Faith was satisfied with the answer. She felt relieved that her luck was pleasantly canny. Through her joy, however, she couldn't help but to also feel that her luck was about to go bad.
They arrived and the port of the Goa kingdom. Setting the anchor Jessica, Darrius and Jason departed from the ship.
Darrius seemed a little more than eager to get into the kingdom. . As soon as he stepped foot off the ship he was quick to head for the town. A bundle of notebooks and maps hung off his shoulder, a pair of steam punk styled googles and a stuffed animal in his hand.
"Where are you going, Darrius?" Jessica called after him.
"I have something I have to do!" He yelled to her.
"Make sure you're back tonight!" Jessica yelled back before he was out of earshot.
Jessica put her hands on her hips. "Well, he's gone. We should head out, too."
Jason nodded and walked on. "Yeah. But, where is Faith?"
Jessica began walking with him. "She said she wanted to go over something's in her book. She'll be around soon."
The town of Goa was a beautiful place. The buildings were crafted perfectly and were painted vibrant colors. The people held their heads high putting on air. The best adorned well-made suits, beautiful dresses, and colorful and flashy hats. Here and there, a person gave Jason and Jessica a disgusted look due to their clothing not being of the kingdoms standers. Nether the boy or the woman paid the looks any mind while they walked through the bustling crowds.
The two chatted idly, mostly about swords, and entered any shop that caught their eye. Most of the shops were full of life and business and before the two knew it, they were buying food. Jessica had six boxes of different candy and Jason had a dozen dumplings.
However, through the hustle and bustle of the shopping district one shop stood out because of the lack of business. It caught Jason's eye as they passed by and he stopped and looked into the window.
"Hey Jessica, look at this." He says.
Jessica stopped mid-step almost dropping her candy. "What is it?" She looks in the window and her face instantly brightened. She rushed up to the glass almost pressing up against it. Her eyes shown and her lips parted in awe. "Those guns are SO amazing!" She scanned the contents of the store, her eyes widened in childish delight upon seeing each of her favorite weapons. In front of the swords that are mounted on the wall, she saw Jason unsheathing a katana.
"Hey..!" She huffed and ran in.
A young girl sat at a table under an umbrella in a plaza. Her legs swung under the chair as she hummed merrily sticking her tongue out in concentration. With a screwdriver, she tightened some screws on a metal cylinder at a rapid speed. Her pastel blonde bangs with pastel blue ends were in her face so she combed them back with her fingers making her hair short messy. Placing down the screwdriver, she reached inside the cylinder taking two wires that were attached to a power source with her bare fingers and attached them to each other.
They heated up fast and burned her fingers, though it didn't hurt her she still jolted at the heat laughed. "Ow." She said halfheartedly and her hair dell back into her face. She fiddled around inside the contraption some more not noticing the figure come up to her.
"Hello, Candy" Came a man.
She looked up swiping her hair to one side of her face. Her face lit up at the sight of the man. She shot out of her seat, her project forgotten. "Navi. Darrius!" She hugged him and he hugged her back.
The brown haired man looked down on the 5'3" girl. "Long time no see, it's been a while."
Candy let go of him and bounced back to her seat. "Yeah it has. Took you four years to get your booty cheeks back here."
Darrius scratched his head. "Sorry 'bout that. I got side tracked for a while then stuck in a few varying places for a long time. But believe me; I tried to make it back here sooner."
Candy gave him an incredulous smirk. "Uh-huh, I bet you were side tracked by some big breastesses." That made Darrius look away with a big smile on his face. "Well, you didn't really change. You still look like the dumb man-child that left." She said
"And you are still a dirty little maniac." He looked Candy over. She had on an orange button up shirt and a brown ruffled skirt that reached above her knees. One of her sleeves was ripped and some of her skirt was blotched with black oil and brown grease stains and her white Mary Jane's were scuffed up and dirty. On her hands were black fingerless gloves that showed dark scars on her skin and on some of her legs and arms were bandages. Her face was slightly covered by strands of light yellow and blue hair but on her cheeks under her light green eyes, were either scratches or a streak of dried oil. Just like the nine-year-old he remembered
Candy had had enough of him staring at her, "Look, Navi. Man. I know I look sexy and all scrum-diddly-umptious but you need to stop gawking at me before I start to think you're a pedophile.
Darrius scrunched his nose at her and stuck out his tongue. "As if I'd me attracted to a runt like you!" He took the goggles from his hand and put them around her head awkwardly over her eyes. As she tried to fix onto her forehead he shoved a cute stuffed panda in her face. "Happy late 14th birthday."
She took the cute plush figure in her hands. "Shut up, you immature ass, before I blow you up in to the sky! I'm not 14 yet, my birthday isn't for a few more months!"
"Fine I'll just take my presents then" He reached down to take them but she scooted the chair away.
"Nooo!" Candy cried. "I wanna keep 'em!"
Darrius smirked and chuckled. "Ok then," He sat down in the opposite chair of Candy.
So this chapter isn't the complete thing, I'm splitting it into two parts because I hadn't updated in a few days. I just felt like I needed to get something up.
Game Time: The winner is LazyFoxLove! Her guessed was the Tactic-Tactic fruit as Faith's Devil Fruit!
Still accepting a Shipwright and a Musician.
