Hello! Chapter 4 has is the first appearance of the first submitted OC! Thanks to Mr. Scary face!
There are still some openings for OCs.
navigator:
lookout:
marines
I don't own One Piece. I only own the few OCs I thought of myself.
Chapter 4
"Akira, are you paying attention?"
Akira opened an eye. "What's wrong?" he asked.
Tora, who was sitting on the other side of the boat, rolled her eyes. "I was saying, we need to figure out who we need on the crew, in order of importance." she said. She rummaged through her cloak, and pulled out a spiral-bound book. She pulled a pencil out of her sash, and started scratching some marks down. A compass, a wrench, a frying pan, a captain's hat, a number one sign, and some other things.
"So," she said. "I assume we're going to the grand line, right?" she asked.
Akira nodded.
"Well, you're the captain, obviously." Tora began. "Then there's me, the... umm..."
"You're the first mate!" Akira said.
Tora raised an eyebrow. "I dunno, Akira..." she said. "It might not be such-"
"No!" Akira said, pouting. "I found you first, so you're the first mate!"
Tora shrugged. "Can't argue with that logic, I suppose." she said. "Okay. We need a navigator. I can only do so much."
Akira froze. He had figured, since Tora was a famous seafaring bounty hunter, she would be an authority on the subject. "Wasn't it your job to sail the seas and hunt pirates?"
Tora frowned. "That may be. But that doesn't mean I was any good at it. I spent my first month and a half getting lost. The only reason I turned to bounty hunting in the first place was because lots of pirates attacked me because of Kitetsu. I decided to become a bounty hunter because it was enough to cover my meals."
"Okay..." Akira said. "Oh! We need a cook!"
Tora nodded. "Yeah. Then there's also something extremely important we need."
"Yeah!" Akira said. "Lots of food!"
Tora sweatdropped. "Where did that come from?" she deadpanned. "No, I meant, we need a ship. A dinghy like this isn't going to support a full pirate crew, let alone navigate the grand line."
"Oh yeah!" Akira laughed. "We need the best ship in the world! After all, I'm going to be the king of the pirates. The best pirate around needs the best ship around."
Tora nodded, then stared at the sky. "Oh!" she said.
Akira looked up. There was a gull flying overhead.
Tora gave a sharp, shrill whistle that made Akira jump.
The gull landed on the bow. Akira hadn't noticed the sailor's hat and the satchel at it's side before. "Hey, it's the news coo." he said, grinning. "You got a paper for us?"
The news coo plucked a roll of newspaper from it's satchel and handed it to Tora. Then, he turned to Akira, and when he didn't move, he pecked at his nose.
"Ouch!" Akira yelped. He grabbed the news coo by the neck and started shaking it. "Why the hell did you do that?!"
Tora snorted. "He wants you to pay him."
Akira blinked. "Pay him?"
"You didn't expect the paper to be free, did you?" she asked. "These birds fly all over the world delivering newspaper."
"Oh." Akira rummaged through his pockets. He frowned. He couldn't find his wallet. He started emptying his pockets, spilling lots of stuff on the deck. A pack of playing cards, pocket lint, a candy bar - score! -, an old candy wrapper - not so score -, and finally, his wallet. When he opened it, a little fly buzzed out.
He looked at Tora sheepishly. "Can I borrow a couple hundred berries?" he asked.
Tora chuckled and handed him a coin.
Akira dropped it in the small holster around the bird's neck.
The news coo took off, cuffing Akira upside the head with it's wing.
Tora handed Akira the newspaper. Akira flipped through it for a while. "Awesome!" he shouted.
Tora, who was looking through some new wanted posters, jumped. "What is is?" she asked.
Akira shot up, pumping his fist in the air. "Oh, yeah! Look at this!" He shoved his newspaper in Tora's face.
Tora's eyes widened. "Uh... What?"
Akira whooped again. "Mari! Mari's in the newspaper!" He did a kind of happy dance. "Mari's tavern got a new roof! She must have won the lottery! I'm so proud of her!"
Tora frowned at the newspaper. "Who's... Mari?" she asked.
Akira jumped once more before calming down enough to say, "She's my big sister. She's a lot older than me. She was fourteen when I was born, but she's been like a mom to me since Mom left us twelve years ago."
Tora's eyes widened. "Oh."
While Tora flipped through the rest of the wanted posters, Akira flipped through Tora's book. It was a sketchbook. He stopped at a drawing of a man with one eye. It was all black, so it was almost impossible to see what he looked like. "Who's that?" he asked.
Tora's face darkened. Akira got the idea that he had trespassed into dangerous territory.
Instead of gutting him or cutting him in two, Tora sighed. "I don't know, to be honest." she said. "He's the man who gave me Kitetsu."
Akira raised his eyebrows. "He must not have liked you much, if he gave you a cursed sword."
Tora frowned. "Just because he gave me a cursed blade doesn't mean he didn't like me. It just means he had faith that I could master this blade."
Akira shrugged. "Okay, okay..."
Tora rolled her eyes and went back to scanning the wanted posters. After about five minutes, she raised an eyebrow. "Well, whaddaya know..." she said. "He's got a bounty now."
"Who?" Akira asked.
"Here." Tora handed him the wanted poster.
Akira gave the poster a quick once-over. "'WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE.'" he read. "'Sabakukaze Jake. Fifteen million berries! Not bad!"
Tora stretched and grabbed an apple from the food barrel beside her. "His epithet is 'Rattlesnake Jake'. Sounds pretty classic western, doesn't it? I've heard some pretty nasty things about him."
"What did you hear, Tora? If this is his first bounty, how come you've heard of him?"
Tora sighed. "You can't be a bounty hunter and not know Sabakukaze Jake." she said. "He's from a desert country in the grand line. He's a bounty hunter, or he used to be, anyway. He has quite the reputation around the Loguetown area right now..."
Akira grinned. "So, he's pretty good, eh?"
Tora frowned at him. "What are you thinking?" she asked.
Akira didn't say anything, but he grinned mischievously. He grinned even wider when Tora groaned and rubbed her forehead. "Well..." he said after a few minutes. "Maybe I should-"
"You don't even know where to find him." Tora interrupted. "Don't even bother. Besides, not all bounty hunters are going to join you just because you ask them."
Akira felt shocked. "But you did." he said. "And you look a lot scarier than him."
Tora glared at him. Her eyes seemed to go from a calm ocean to a hurricane. "I wouldn't take that as an invitation to invite any kind of dangerous bounty hunter to join your crew..." she muttered.
"I thought you said he's a former bounty hunter."
Tora facepalmed. "Nothing I say is going to penetrate that thick skull of yours, is it? I'm trying to tell you it's a bad idea."
When they landed at the next town, Akira was first off. "Aahhh..." he said. "We're here! Loguetown!"
Tora stepped up beside him and rolled her eyes. "You do realise we need more than two crew members before we sail to the grand line."
Akira nodded. "We'll need to stay in Loguetown for a while." He paused. "Hey! Race you to the restaurant!" He dashed off.
"Hey!" he heard Tora called after him. "Watch where you're-"
Akira didn't hear the rest. He crashed into someone who was standing in the middle of the road. He hit the guy so hard he fell back on his butt.
"Akira!" Tora growled. "You need to look before you leap!"
Akira grinned. "Yeah, you're probably right..." he said. He looked up at the guy. "Sorry about that." he said.
Tora hauled him up to his feet. "Sorry about my-" She gasped when she got a look at the guy Akira had crashed into.
The guy was tall, about 6'2'', with long, spiky blond hair, slicked back. He wore blue jeans, a white button-up shirt, unbuttoned at the neck, a dark brown poncho with black zigzag trim, brown cowboy boots complete with spurs, and a wide brimmed cowboy hat. Two leather belts hung loosely at his waist. There were at least a hundred magazines of bullets attached to the belts. He looked like a stereotypical cowboy, although that wasn't a common fashion around the Loguetown area.
The guy turned around. He had a calm, calculating expression. He looked about twenty, maybe twenty-one. He looked like the kind of person girls would call the 'strong, silent type'. Akira gasped when he caught sight of the guy's hand. It was a six-barrelled machine gun.
"Wow!" Akira shouted. "That's so cool!"
Instead of smacking Akira upside the head or telling him off for staring at someone, Tora stepped in front of him, drawing her sword. "Akira!" she snapped. "Get back!"
Akira cocked his head. "What's wrong, Tora?" he asked.
The silent guy looked at the two of them and smiled. He held his left hand out to Tora. "You must be 'Thunderstroke' Tora." he said in a pretty deep voice, as if he wasn't used to using it. "It's a pleasure. I am Sabakukaze Jake."
Well, there you have it! A bounty hunter turned outlaw appears! What will happen next?!
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devil fruit: (if any)
haki: (if any)
personality:
Pet peeves: (something that greatly annoys them that might be considered not so annoying to other people)
history: (this is an important one. In most cases, a character's history shapes who they are.)
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