Chapter 4.

When they were walking up the hill they were confronted by several voices. After those few voices finished saying there jumbled mess of words a shaky voice said," B-b-behold Captain Ussop c-captain of one-thousand m-m-m-men!" Then a bronze-skinned and long-nosed male walked out flanked by cardboard cut outs armed with toy bows & arrows. Donlu looked at Zoro and got a nod, stepping forward Donlu brought out a sword, one of four that was given to him by the villagers, and swung it slicing the air in front him sending out a blade of wind to the cut outs destroying them. Scared, Ussop brought out his super-sized slingshot and loaded a pachinko ball onto it. He pointed it behind Donlu in the middle of the others and let it fly.

Once it struck the ground it exploded into smoke letting Ussop and his three fake disciples escape. Luffy brought out a suction void to suck the smoke in so they would stop coughing because the smoke was also tear gas mixed with knock-out gas with some unknown component. When the last of it was sucked in it was clear as glass that Ussop and his little friends left. Everyone knew that Luffy wanted Ussop in his crew because he appeared to be a good sharpshooter even though he was a coward.

All of the straw hats calmly walked up the slope that led towards the village. As they were walking towards the village Ussop was busy shouted that pirates were coming. The only bad thing about that was Ussop has a chronic problem called Liarmatic which made him spout at least fifty lies a day so… the villagers didn't believe him. In fact they tried to attack him once he hit the tenth time he shouted the warning.

He ran, of course, away towards a mansion by the outskirts of town. When he got there he wasn't even out of breath (from him having to run daily from enrage villagers) and quickly climbed up a tree towards a window. Rapping on it lightly, he waited for minute before it opened. The person who opened the window was a lady, her name was Kaiya and she was sick. Ussop goes over to her house at least twice a day to cheer her up with lies. In fact that was what gave him Liarmatic he told her so many made up stories he couldn't stop lying.

He gave her five tall-tales before he told her about the Straw Hats. She didn't believe him, thinking it was one of his tall-tales before the said pirates showed up. "Hey," shouted Luffy," How would you like to join my crew!" His comrades sighed at the lack of tact. Ussop hurriedly shook his head no. From the force of him shaking his head so fast it shook his body causing him to fall off the tree branch he was sitting on.

Luckily for him he was able to twist his body in a way that he landed crouched. The movement just reinforced Luffy's want for Ussop on his crew. Just as he was about to yell again a butler called Klauhadore appeared asking why there was riffraff messing with Kaiya before he started spouting insults like a fire hydrant. Ussop glowered at a particularly rude insult to his dad before having his own insults spew out of his mouth like a geyser before he stalked off, fuming.

Later that day the same, still mad, Ussop overheard Klauhadore talking about making a will in where he inherited the fortune of Kaiya then kill said person and blaming it on her disease then some other plans for the future. Ussop always knew something was wrong with Klauhadore but this? He decided to tell Kaiya about his treachery but when he told she stared at him in anger stating that Klauhadore has served her faithfully for years and that he would never do that.

Ussop growled and he said," Fine then choose… do you prefer Klauhadore, who I might add you know nothing about, or me the boy who gave willingly gave up his easy life in the village and brought their ire out just with lies to be able to provide good stories and tales so she would be happy." Kaiya looked sad but in the end she chose saying," Klauhadore." Ussop's lips thinned to the point hair was envious and left briskly.

He met up with the Straw Hats giving them the run-down and his willingness to join should they help him. The answer was almost immediate… yes. He told them the point where he heard they were going to leave. They got all manners of traps set up within the next hour.

The time for the pirates to show up but they weren't there yet. Nami asked Ussop if there was another dock and he gave an affirmative before a look of realization appeared on his face and he told them that the other dock was on the whole other side of the island. Everyone blinked before Luffy opened a vortex to the other side and let the others jump in before he did. They got their just in time to see Klauhadore introduce himself as the man of 1000 plans. He was walking and his senses told him to move and he did jumping to see the side avoiding a pachinko ball that exploded.

He turned around quickly and saw a furious Ussop and bored Straw Hats. Of course he just smirked believing them of no threat and ordering his crew of 'black cats' to attack. Barely a minute later they were on the ground moaning. Kuro , Klauhadore, growled before he ordered Jango, his right hand man, to hypnotize them into becoming beast on the battlefields.

The black cats rose quickly growling like wolves with rabies. Ussop was still mad and sent out his pachinko balls with such force that even when they hit someone they kept going. Luffy had thought of an excellent plan and opened vortexes in the paths of the pachinko balls and sent them right back around creating an onslaught of deadly metal balls at the hypnotized pirates. The pirates were still standing but a quick lashing from Nami, Zoro, Donlu, Chin, and Moku fixed that problem.

If anything Kuro was even angrier and started thinking of all the possible ways for him to get out of his situation. After thinking up plans back-up plans and back-back-up plans he decided to attack, not thinking of the variable that was Ussop. Kuro thought that Ussop's helping was only temporary only added him in his 'not possible' plans, so when he saw Ussop edging away he thought he was going to run. Of course that didn't happen instead the male brought out a sickly-green colored pachinko ball and shot over to Kuro, watching as it exploded into a green sap that nobody could move in.

He was then brought to Kaiya who already knew about his betrayal from her bodyguard, who was stabbed by him, who had informed her. She told Ussop she was sorry and said she had a gift for them. Kaiya told her about a ship she had bought for the Straw Hats called " The Going Merrey" and a fruit that has been with her family for generations but has never been tasted before. Then she brought out a fruit that when turned, changed a different color. With that she also brought out a fox kit that was green.

They couldn't help but stare dumbly because with their luck they might just have a crew full of devil fruit users and animal partners that also ate devil fruits. While he was smiling his eyes were not, but he still took the gifts. Biting into the fruit he wanted to spit it out but swallowed it down, spitting out an oval –like seed. Then the kit yawned and a small wind picked up.

So with that she also presented them with books on many things, including meditation. Ussop gave a small smile, though his eyes still didn't lighten up. He walked forward giving Kaiya a hug and the strangest thing happened, it appeared as though they were in a meadow full of things of the light nature. A second later they were back in the room of Kaiya's mansion.

Ussop blinked already thinking of what happened before deciding it was an illusion, but made by whom. He didn't have time to think on it before he was pulled away to the docks because they needed to leave because some of the villagers contacted the marines. His life of running letting him catch up easily. It wasn't long before they knew what Ussop's and the kit's, named Fuu, power was and they're coming ease with the training regiment which also incorporated meditation wondering who their next crew-mate was going to be.