Okay, so this is chapter 4 of my fic. Just to clear anything up, all of the characters that I listed earlier WILL be a part of this, and they will be angry. And it's all Iggy's fault! As a side note, the Hetalia characters are nations, for those of you who don't like AU fics.
About the name of England's crew- I kinda rushed on the name 'The Jacks'. I got it from the Union Jack, but it can relate to Jack the Ripper, too. I read two fanfics where the ship is called The Plague, but I don't know if it really is called that originally. Right now, I'm avoiding the ship name.
I guess that this is a bit late, but pairings- None! I can't write romance, and I want to stay out of flame wars. However, Sanji, France, and both Italies will be flirting. Also, the relationship with Spain and Romano is more brotherly in my eyes. It's a bit awkward when your boyfriend raised you… I think the same way about USUK.
Plus, I don't know why Robin calls Iggy Cap'n. It just worked for me, even if she might be OOC.
Do you even read the title part?
"…Er, what?" Cap'n's train of thought crashed.
"Join my crew! You're a good person, and you have nowhere else to go, right?" Luffy urged. From what I could figure out about him, he always cared about people who were lost. Like me.
Cap'n looked relived. [1] "Thanks," was all he said, but I could tell that he was glad.
"Then it's settled! Let's have a party!" One- track mind, as usual. That's one thing that I like about Luffy. I can't compare him to anyone [2].
"Hey, look at this!" Ussop took a shell out of his pocket. "This is called the tone dial. You press this part," he indicated to the top section, "And say something,"
"Er… YOU BLOODY GIT!" Cap'n shouted at the top of his lungs.
"And then you press this…" click.
"YOU BLOODY GIT!" The dial repeated.
"Cool, isn't it?" Ussop bragged.
"I think that I've seen something like this before…" Cap'n's eyes were on the dial, but he wasn't seeing it. His mind was on his lost memories.
"Oi! Come have a drink with us!" Zolo waved sake at him.
Cap'n gulped down half a cup of beer- and promptly began babbling about the Rot-Fang conspiracy [3]
I smiled. I was never going to let Cap'n live this one down.
"Hey, Robin," Nami pulled me over, the picture of seriousness.
"Hm?" I answered.
"There's something I need to ask,"
"What is it?"
"When exactly did you meet Arthur?"
"Erm…" I forgot. Let's see, I was eight when Ohara… No, that couldn't be right. "Nami…" I just realized what Nami meant. "The last time I saw Cap'n… was almost twenty years ago."
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Not too far from where the Straw Hats were staying, an unidentified ship was floating. Fog had just rolled in, and visibility was low. The first man who saw it thought that it was just another vessel, maybe with a few pirates, but that was nothing special. And then he noticed the shape.
"Th-that's not a boat!" he half whispered, half yelled at his partner.
His partner sighed. "It's floating, it had people on it, it's a b-"
"Look!" the man turned his partner around shakily.
"What's all the fuss- Holy (Insert explicative here)! It's a dock!"
"Come on! We've got to warn the boss!"
On the aforementioned 'dock'…
"Well, at the very least, we've made it here in one piece," A boy in a sailor suit commented.
"One piece… If you can call it that," a distraught Canadian mumbled. "I can't believe that Arthur did this to us…"
[1] Cap'n looked relived- It would have been too hard for him to reject it.
[2] I can't compare him to anyone- Robin's saying that she can't say that Iggy is better than Luffy, or vice versa.
[3] Rot-Fang conspiracy- from Harry Potter, sixth book. Never put into detail, just mentioned.
Sorry it was so short; I just have to leave off at a cliffhanger.