Ok, here's the next chapter, sorry it took so long...i have no excuse...lol...ENJOY!


Chapter 4: Under Attack

"Pancakes, pancakes!" Jenny chimed, skipping up the gangplank.

"Ohayo, Mr. marimo!" She greeted innocently as Zoro lifted his weights. He grunted, ignoring her. She didn't take it personally; she merely skipped her way into the kitchen. "Pancakes!" She cheered.

"Morning, Zoro," Adella grunted, secretly giving him the finger behind her back.

"Put it away or I'll cut it off," Zoro growled, not even looking up from his weights.

Adella snorted and pulled her hand back into her pocket. She walked into the kitchen, only to be greeted by a metal pole in her face. Zoro and Alli began laughing their heads off while Adella fell on the ground on her back.

"Where is it?!" Nami yelled, pulling her up by the shirt.

"...Where's...what?" Adella grumbled, minding the bump on her head.

"My 100,000 beli? You STOLE it, now where is it?" Nami growled.

Adella winced as Nami yelled at her, "I dunno."

Nami's eyes bore flames, "Empty your bags, NOW!"

Nami dropped Adella on the ground, making her grunt like a pig.

After taking a gulp of pancakes, Jenny tilted her head, "Delly-chan. Didn't we tell you not to steal. It's not really a fun game anyway." She mused innocently.

Alli giggled, "You are in for it."

Adella muttered a couple 'Shut ups' before pulling her bag off her bag and emptied the contents inside of it. As a pile of wallets and tacky coin purses filled the room all Adella said was, "What? Stealing excites me. It's like grog without the alcohol."

Jenny sighed. "Poor Delly. Probably going to die..." She said apologetically.

"LIKE HELL SHE IS!" Nami screeched.

"Way to go." Alli muttered. "We'll probably get thrown off the ship now."

"Why is everybody yelling?" Chris yawned, coming up from the women's quarters. Her short hair was a disheveled mess and her clothes were wrinkled from sleep. "Doesn't anyone realize that it's still early?"

"Everyone else is up but you," Zoro grunted matter-of-factly.

Chris slowly turned to look at him, "And your point is?"

"Nami, come on," Adella whined, " Why in the world did you hit me?"

"You stole from me!" Nami snarled.

"Well I really don't need it," Adella pulled the cash out of her pocket and handed it to the navigator, "That marine captain was loaded."

Adella was just about to start counting all the money in the wallets when Nami whacked her in the head with her Clima Tact again.

"OW!"

Nami scooped up a pile of the coin purses and wallets and walked contently over to the table to start counting.

"I think I deserve at least half of your profits," Nami smiled, beli signs appearing in her eyes.

"OI!!"

"So... There's a goofy captain, a lazy swordsman and a money-crazed navigator. You have a funny crew. Teehee!" Jenny laughed.

Zoro shot her a glare. "What about YOU? Where's your crew?"

Jenny tapped her chin. "Adella-chan are we a crew?"

"Course we are!" Adella snapped, "We are pirates and we are a crew! You, me, and Alli. It's small and dysfunctional but we are a crew."

Adella chucked another empty wallet out the door after pulling out the money, although the wallet decided to take a dive for Zoro's face. Adella sweat dropped when his dark figure appeared behind her.

"Sanji-kun! May I have those pancakes now!" Adella said uneasily, crawling behind the chef.

"Hai Delly-chyaaan!"

"If you guys are a crew, who's who?" Zoro asked.

"What do ya mean who is who?" Alli replied confused.

"Who's the captain?" Luffy stopped eating for the briefest second to ask them.

"We have a captain?!" Jenny exclaimed, surprised she wasn't told.

"Well...if we had anything, Jenny would probably be the game person, I would be the eat'n'run person and Addy would be the pick pocketer person..." Alli tried to explain at a loss for words, "No captain, no chef, no navigator or doctor or anything like that though..."

"I like that..." Adella grinned, "Pick pocketer person though? Hahaha, how about 'Thief' or 'Ms. Burglar'. Meh we are not much of a crew are we...we should at have a name."

"I guess you could call us a crew...but were just regular pirates if you ask me..." Alli shrugged.

"Wow!" Chris laughed through the food in her mouth. "This is really breakfast and a show!"

"What a beautiful laugh, Chris-chwan!" Sanji yelled, a heart in his eye.

Chris raised an eyebrow at the cook, "Dude, it's too early for that... By the way, great pancakes."

BOOM!

Jenny looked up, "Hn? What was that?" It sounded like a cannon fire. She jumped up and stuck her head out of the galley door, only to pull it back in with a yelp. A cannon whizzed pasted, crashing into the starboard railings of Going Merry. The small ship rocked back and forth, shaking the occupants inside.

"Whoa! I didn't know we were playing battleship!" Jenny exclaimed in amazement. She dashed outside to see where it came from. Inside, the Straw Hats and the girls heard her shout of, "ZOMFGWTFBBQ?!" and ran outside to see what she was yelling at. Five big Marine ships sailed into view, all cannons aimed at them.

Jenny tilted her head. "Time to go?"

"Time to go!" The Mugiwara Kaizokudan yelled, getting into their cast off positions. It was too early in the morning to fight! And with that early attack from that Captain (Which is probably why the other Marines were there), why push your luck?

Chris stepped out of the galley and immediately ducked as a cannonball whizzed by overhead. She frowned in the direction of the Marine ships.

"Dang! If I get caught on this ship it'll put a black mark on my record!"

Luffy ran by, quickly yelling to her, "Don't worry! We never get caught!" Then, he was gone to another part of the ship.

Another cannonball flew, barely missing her head.

"OI!! QUIT SHOOTIN' AT ME!!"

"Ahhh!" Adella screamed, being knocked over by the rock of the ship.

She crawled over to the railing and grabbed a hold. She wasn't very skilled when it came to managing a ship that's under attack by cannons. To be quite frank, she didn't enjoy being on a ship that was under siege by marines at all. Adella cringed when another cannon took a dive right next to the ship, creating a HUGE wave.

BOOM

"Uh oh!" She heard someone scream as the little caravel took in another humongous wave.

Suddenly Adella was under water and her arms were not attached to the railing like they were supposed to be. The wave had sucked her in like a vacuum. She broke surface and looked around for the ship, which was only a couple meters away, and began swimming towards it. Her heart raced as the marines prepared to fire again. She was a sitting duck.

"Man over board!!" someone called.

"Throw me a rope!" Adella screamed as she approached the ship.

BOOM!!

Another cannon dove towards the ship, this time barely missing Adella and Merry. The current and waves carried Adella back a couple more meters, requiring her to swim faster and back.

Once she inched towards the ship a rope ladder, thrown by Sanji, fell down. She grabbed a hold of the ladder and began climbing up. Once she reached the top and Sanji began helping her into the ship she screamed, " I'm going below deck!!"

And with that said she sprinted towards the cabin and went inside, slamming the door behind her.

Chris growled as cannonball after cannonball flew towards the ship. She finally had the last straw when one nearly took her head off.

"THAT'S IT!! I'VE HAD IT!!" Chris screeched at the top of her lungs. She whipped two nunchaku out of her hoodie's pocket. "Everyone cover your ears!"

Everyone replied accordingly, looking quite confused. Chris began spinning her weapons faster and faster. Suddenly, a very high-pitching, squealing noise started emitting from the nunchaku.

Everyone aboard the Merry covered his or her ears tighter. The Marines were apparently also affected, as suggested by the ceased cannon fire.

Jenny blinked. "Wow, did you kill them? Yay! That means we won!!"

"No, I did not kill them," Chris rolled her eyes, still spinning her nunchaku. "Although... they will have annoying ringing sound in their ears for a few days..."

"So will I, no thanks to you," Usopp grumbled.

"Hey! Just be glad that I warned you, otherwise, you'd be deaf right now!" Chris glared at no one in particular.

Usopp eyed her suspiciously, "Then how were you able to stand that noise without going deaf?"

Chris pointed to small, white cotton puffs in her ears.

"Oh..."

"Hm. -Wait then how did you hear long nose-san just now?!" Jenny exclaimed.

"What?... Oh! I can lip-read," Chris shrugged.

Adella walked out on deck, nearly passing out.

"Are you alright?" Luffy asked, jumping down from his post.

Adella grabbed him by the shirt and snarled with a deep glare, "What was that screeching noise! I think I am deaf!!"

"Hmm...We left the island!" Jenny announced stupidly. The others sweatdropped.

"When did you notice?" Usopp muttered.

"HELLO! I just SAID it!" Jenny exclaimed, pointing to the sentence she just said.

FLASHBACK :D

"Hmm...We left the island!" Jenny announced stupidly.

"SEE!" Jenny said with a pout.

Chris glanced around the ship in sudden realization.

"Where'd Alli go?"

"Ahh...that was a nice nap!" Alli yawned as she emerged from the gallery.

Jenny tilted her head. "You fell asleep, Alli-chan??"

"Yah...i got up early this morning, so i was tired," Alli explained as she stretched, "So i figured i could catch another few minutes of sleep, why did you need me for something?"

Everyone sweatdropped. "Yeah, it would have helped when we were under attack." Zoro muttered.

"Under attack!?" Alli screeched and pulled out her sai, "Where?!"

Jenny popped up behind Alli's shoulder. "It's been over, Alli-chan..." She explained with a sweatdrop.

"Oh," Alli laughed, putting her weapons away, "My bad! Heh heh...a pirates life for me..."

Alli looked around and realized by the battered look of the ship, they had in fact been under attack and she slept right through it. Then she noticed Addy squirming around on the floor holding her ears.

"Uhhh..." she began to ask, "Addy? Are you alright?"

"I don't think she can hear you," Nami advised.

"Gosh, you'd think nobody had ever heard something that high-pitched before!" Chris exclaimed, throwing her arms up.

Usopp eyed her weirdly, "Most people don't know somebody with squealing nunchaku."

Chris' eye twitched as she turned to face the marksman, "You have a problem with my nunchaku?" She growled.

Usopp quickly replied, "N-no! What made you think that?"

Chris stopped growling and her face regained its normal calm expression, "Oh, okay. Never mind then!"

"Nunchukus are cool..." Alli commented and watched Chris smile, "...but sai are so much better!!"

"Hm? What's a nunchukus?? It sounds funny! Teehee!" Jenny had closed her eyes while Chris blew her...Instrument of deafness?

"These things," Alli grabbed one out of Chris's hand and tossed it to her friend, "I think they're pretty easy to use."

Alli stuck her tongue out at Chris playfully.

Jenny fiddled with them for a moment. "Teehee! These are fun! But how does it make such a high pitched sound?" She questioned, peering down the center of one end.

Alli took the nunchaku back from Jenny and examined it herself, "I don't know. Chris, how does it work?"

Chris sighed and firmly took back her beloved nunchaku from Alli. She said simply, "You. Spin. It."

Chris sighed at everyone's blank looks.

She pointed to two very small holes at the tips of her nunchaku, "See these holes? When air passes through them fast enough, such as when it is spun at a high speed, it creates a high-pitched whistling noise."

A ripple of understanding pasted through the 'crowd' and everyone 'oh'ed.

"So," Alli shrugged, and spun her sai on her fingers, "If you throw these hard enough they make a whistling sound as they pass through the air...only it doesn't make people deaf."

Jenny tilted her head. "This is boring! Explaining stuff is boring. Let's play a game!"

Everyone hit the floor anime style. "NANI?!"

"Okay!!" Alli volunteered sarcastically, "Lets play: Push Jenny overboard!!"

Jenny's eyes widened. "OH MY GOSH! Thats...Thats..." She paused.

"That's what?" Everyone asked in unison.

"THAT SUPER SPECIAL AWESOME!! I WANNT PLAY!!"

Chris sweatdropped, "Reeeally... Well, you guys have fun with that. I think I'm gonna go practice."

Luffy tilted his head at her in confusion, "Practice what?"

"My instruments," Chris replied. "I have to make sure I'm ready for my next performance."

"You're a musician?!" Luffy yelled, stars in his eyes. "Join my crew!"

Chris quickly scooted away from the Strawhat captain, "Dude! Didn't we just have this conversation a while ago! I already said no!"

Luffy pouted for a second before running over to join in the fun of pushing Jenny overboard.

"Muh Ha Ha!!" Alli laughed a fake evil laugh and ran at Jenny, ready for a pushing and shoving 'battle'.

"Oi oi oi..." Zoro complained as the two girls shoved him out of the way to make room for their game.

"This looks like fun!" Luffy shouted before joining the game of Push-Jenny-Overboard and 'accidentally' shoving both girls over the ship edge. Throwing a fist in the air, Luffy ran to the railing and called down to the two girls, "Yosh! I win!"

Meanwhile, Alli was in the water and sinking...fast. Jenny was at least twenty feet away and she didn't think anyone else on the ship (besides Addy) knew she couldn't swim. She was a hammer because of that stupid devil fruit she accidentally ate, her body had gone limp and her lungs were longing for a fresh breath of air.

This is not good, Alli confirmed.


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