Here's another chapter for my lovely readers. I did a double update last time. Chapters two and three were posted on the same day, so you might want to check if you missed it
IMPORTANT! Next chapter will start a contest for OC's for the crew and home base residents. I will post the registration form for the OC's with the chapter. I need you guys to make up characters for me to be able to use. I have to be able to use them without constantly asking if what I do with them is okay with their creators.
The positions I need filled for the crew are the following: DOCTOR, SHARPSHOOTER, SCHOLAR, SWORDSMAN/WOMAN, and MUSICIAN.
For home base I will need the following: INFORMANT, INFORMATION ANALYSIST, COURRIER, TREASURER, STRATEGIST, CARPENTER, DOCTOR, CHEF, JOB COORDINATOR, SCHOLAR and SHARPSHOOTER.
You as the creators of the Oc's will be able to have first pick as to where they will be based, on the ship, or at the home base. There will be openings for several of some positions, so, if I didn't pick your Oc for the crew, they will most likely be put at home base, so make them versatile and interesting. No god modding. They can have devil fruit powers, just not overly strong ones. i.e Mythical Zoan types, regular Zoan is fine. There is only going to be one MZ Devil Fruit user besides Marco and it will be Sabo that gets it in my story.
The Lines dividing scenes are supposed to make it more anime like than storybook like. Thats why i also added an opening like the ones with Gol D. Roger. They are said by Chase. I am borrowing songs from other Anime, though. I do not own the song.
Since it is late o'clock as I am typing this
Total word count for chapter 2,230
Disclaimer: *Holds up Siamese kitten* This is Cloud, I own him. *holds up rights to One Piece* This I do not own.
Hope.
Freedom.
Dreams.
Love.
Four unstoppable Ideals that shall forever exist as long as there is inteligent life on this planet.
Fighting Dreamers from Naruto plays.
Chase woke up the next morning with a happy groan. She stretched and then winced when it pulled one of her bruises. She sat up in the bed and smiled at the rays of sun pouring in through the window. She got up and stretched some more and sighed. She went over and got her clothes and dressed for the day.
She walked out of the room and found ace sitting next to the window. She walked over to him and touched his shoulder, making him jump. He clearly did not expect that. "I know, right, I did not expect to be able to touch you, either. I'm glad though. I hope you don't mind me using Sabo's room for now; Luffy's is an absolute mess, a disaster waiting to happen." She told him, sheepishly.
"No, no, it's fine. I know how Luffy can get at times." He reassured her quickly. "What's on the agenda today?" he asked her
"I plan on going back into Foosha to sell the meat I have set aside to sell, and then we are going to get the necessities. And then we are going to the Grey Terminal to sell the bear hide. I'm going to save up for six months, and then use two months to fix up the ship I buy, buying supplies as I do so. Once we set sail, with your permission we are going to test my theory on how to bring you back into the world of the living!" she told him with a little wave of her hands, spazzing out slightly.
She went over to the fridge and got out some meat and lit a cooking fire in the wood oven. She set the meat on a cooking sheet in the oven and let it cook. After she did that she went and checked on the drying meat. It already looked to be drying out partially. She then went out of the tree house and into the small clearing that served as the front yard. She took note of the amount of space and nodded to herself. She then started weeding the yard.
"What are you doing, Chase?" Ace asked his teenaged companion
"I am weeding some of the yard. I am making this place a bit more presentable, we are going to be using this as a home base, so to speak. Its where, if my plan works out, you and others will be recuperating from being dead. I also plan on adding to the house, make more room for our crew. And some permanent residents that will be here year round to help coordinate from home base. Your brother will need an organized support system if he ever wants to truly be Pirate King." Chase told him in a matter of fact way.
"Good idea, Chase." Ace nodded his approval of her plan.
Chase weeded for another 10 minutes before she went to check on the meat. It was almost done so she went into the bathroom and did her morning routine, leaving out the make up and curling of her hair completely. She was glad she never had to do that again. She brushed her hair so that the spikes were at least somewhat neat. She found an unopened toothbrush and brushed her teeth.
She checked on the meat again and found that it was done. She was glad that Ace didn't feel the need to fill the comfortable silence with idle chit-shat. It was comfortable between the two. She ate at her own pace and looked up as a news coo pecked at a window. Ace told her there was 11 Berries still in his room. She paid the bird for the newspaper. Chase found the article she needed to see, the 3dy2 one. She then thought of her plan. She realized that she would need a doctor, a damn good one and the right devil fruit to pay them with. She had the doctor she wanted in mind for her plan. She would need Trafalgar Law. She really hoped she could find the right Devil Fruit for his help
"What has you thinking so hard?" Ace asked her.
"Thinking I need a book on all of the devil fruits that are known, and a way to find them. I need to find ways to get two of the Supernova's to help me with my plan. I could just bribe one with food. I guess I could offer a medical book and the hearts of enemy pirates that we encounter to the other, now that I think about it." She thought out loud. 'I have a year and 11 months to do what I need to do. After that it's on to get Ace's fruit for him. I will make my self truly known during Punk Hazard. I bet I could find tons of Fruits there.' Her thoughts were cut off as a shout sounded from outside the tree house
"GRANDPA IS HERE, MY DARLING GRANDAUGHTER!" Garp yelled up to her. Chase looked over at Ace with a panicky expression.
"Run." He told her simply. Chase took his words seriously and she bolted from the tree house, grabbing Shanks' good arm along the way.
"Shanks, I need to talk to you, but first we need to ditch Garp. Run faster, Shanks!" she ordered the red haired Yonko. She could hear Garp behind them and she picked up the pace, glad for once she was fast on her feet. The two eventually lost him. "Well, there went my plans for the day. I was going to sell a good chunk of bear meat to the butcher in the village, and the pelt in the Grey Terminal." She told him. "I'm saving up for a ship." She clarified for him.
"You really do want to be a Pirate." Shanks stated.
"Yes I do. For Ace, Sabo, Thatch, Luffy, and myself." She told him seriously, dropping her smile for the first time around him since they stopped running.
"I'll help you then. How long do you plan on staying here?" He asked her.
"Eight months at most, six to get the ship, and two to fix it up. Ace told me about the shipyard where he bought his first boat. I plan on getting the biggest ship possible for my crew. I already have people in mind and a first mate. I could already say I have a navigator, but, I haven't spoken to him yet. I'm sure, that once he has heard my tale, he will join me. I also have a cook in mind. I just need a doctor, an engineer, the navigator I have in mind can double as my scholar, a sharpshooter, and a musician." She informed him.
"I can help you cut some of that time off. What was your plan on getting the needed money?" Shanks asked Chase.
"I planned on killing animals that attack me, selling the meat and hides, and fish scales as well. I also planned on selling some clay sculptures and jewelry that I make. I just need paints, glazes, and gloss. I will also need a few brushes. On weekends I planned on offering to do odd jobs around the village." Chase said as they sat down on some logs that were stripped of their bark. "I can get clay from rivers and ponds. In fact, do you wanna keep me company while I get some once I buy a bucket from town?" she asked the red haired man.
"Sure, I have nothing to do today." He told her with a smile, offering her his good arm to help her off from the log, offering her a charming smile.
Chase blushed and giggled. "You are such a charmer." She told him. The two started for the village.
Once they reached the village Shanks went to tell his crew his plans for the day and Chase went to buy the bucket she needed to hold the wet, raw clay, called slip. She would also need a strainer and another bucket, if she didn't want to make stoneware clay. Once she let it dry out a bit she would need a bigger bucket. She would have to buy more buckets, if possible, so she could make more than one batch at a time.
She entered the general store and soon found the buckets. She chose a four pack of wooden medium sized buckets that only cost 2 Berries. She soon found a fine net strainer that would be perfect for getting the stones out of slip. She then found one that would be perfect for getting medium to large stones out so she could make stoneware. They were both on sale so she had only spent 5 Berries on them to get both. She spent the remaining three on a loaf of bread for her and Shanks to share later.
Chase found her companion for the day at the town square. The two made their way back into the forest sand searched for a river. They soon found one and Chase taught Shanks what to look for when searching for raw clay.
"That's an interesting design on your hoodie, does it mean anything?" Shanks asked her as they looked for clay.
The hoodie was black with royal blue fluffy trim on the sleeves and bottom the whole thing was lined with royal blue warm fluff, the hood strings were also Royal blue. The hoodie was knee length.
The design was silvery white; the only color was the red of the eyes. The design was a three tailed fox with the middle tail touching the nose, since the fox curved in a circle. The fox was in between two crescent moons that were mirror images of each other and made a circle.
"It's the jolly roger of my crew, the Youkai Pirates. I plan on naming my ship 'Youkai Moon." She told Shanks as she looked at a different looking patch of mud. "That's what we are looking for! It's red clay, so it would be best for Stoneware. I can make plates, bowls, mugs, and eating utensils with this." She informed her red haired companion happily.
Chase showed him how to strain it so it could be used. He told her about his time as a cabin boy on the ship of Gol D. Roger, and she told him about her early childhood, omitting the fact that she was from a noble family. The two soon had an easy friendship. By the day was done and three of the buckets were filled the two were covered in clay. She then taught him the last lesson of the day, how to wash the clay off of his clothing,
The two parted ways after he walked her home. He promised to come back in a couple of days to help her get fish scales to sell.
She found Ace doing kata in the living room, despite the fact that he didn't need to. She realized that he did it to clear his thoughts and release stress. She left him to it as she filled a wooden tub with warm water and took it to her temporary room. She then went to Luffy's room and made her way to his clothes chest. She borrows a blue tank top and a pair of his shorts. The shorts fit perfectly, surprising her. She took all of the things out of her pockets, surprised at the number of knives and other things. She put her dirty clothes in the tub with some laundry soap that she found and left them to soak over night. She went right to bed right after a bath.
That's chapter four of this story!
There's a time skip seven months next chapter to Chase and Ace setting sail. I know, not a lot of Ace this chapter, it was a chapter to set up the friendship of Chase and Shanks. Garp already sees her as his adopted granddaughter, so I didn't need to put him in much.
What will happen next time? Who will our dear Heroes meet first? Bonney? Sabo? Lawsy? Thatch's ghost? Find out next time on Devil Fruit Hunter Chase!
