"It's just at the end of this street." Nami guided Luka down the road and watched as the pirate girl failed to pay attention to anything. "That's the tavern where the pirates hang out." She started walking slower and got behind Luka with a smirk.
"So what are we going to do there?" Luka stopped walking and took in her surroundings. She figured that the pirates weren't very strong considering the name and the fact that they were still in the East Blue.
"Well…you'll see. Ms. Pirate!" Nami jumped on her back quick like a viper and tied Luka up causing the female pirate to shadow her eyes with her straw hat and release a tense sigh.
"Nami…this better end well. For your sake." Luka mumbled under her breath as she saw Nami smirk and drag her toward the bar that Buggy supposedly resided in.
"You let her get away?! Are you telling me you let a little girl outrun you!? Where are the other two and why are you limping?!" Buggy the Clown yelled at them his big red nose shining in the light like a bull's-eye.
"S-sorry Cap'n Buggy-but her boss killed them! I-!" The man slumped forward and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth as his eyes gazed out into nothing and lost the light of life.
"What?!" Buggy jumped up from his chair as fear flitted through his eyes. He immediately zoomed in on the two girls walking up to him and he narrowed his eyes at them. "Who are you?!" He snarled at them with suspicion raging in his eyes.
Luka snorted and glared at Nami when the girl hit her in the head. "I captured the thief for you captain! This is my boss and she was beginning to be too much so I decided to change scenery. Here's your map!" She produced the map from who knows where and Luka felt her patience running very thin.
"Hmm…you're returning the map to me? What's all this about?" Buggy sat back down before a smirk pulled at his lips and he motioned to his men. "Lock up the straw hat girl…and welcome Nami our new crewmate!" Before Luka could react they through her into a small metal cage and she rolled her eyes at their obvious dismissal of her.
Luka looked at Nami from the corner of the eye and sighed in exhaustion, "You know if you want to pretend to be a pirate you have to hurt people. Are you really prepared to do that? Wake me up when Zoro gets here." Luka closed her eyes and missed the recognition that passed Nami's eyes before hurt and regret flittered through to be replaced by stony determination.
"Do what you want pirate…I don't care." With that Nami stalked off and Luka felt like rolling her eyes at the supposed dismissal even though they both could hear the doubt in her voice.
"I've decided what your fate will be. The punishment for stealing my treasure is severe." Buggy leaned forward and she tilted her head in mock innocence.
"So that means you'll let me go…right?" She smiled slightly
"That's right, I'm going to let you go—Of course I'm not going to let you go!" He yelled in her face and she grimace in disgust. "Load the Buggy balls!" Like a hammer Luka felt her eyes widen in recognition and she laughed loudly at the clown. He ignored her and walked up to the cannon with what Luka assumed was his sort of 'swagger'. That thought just made her laughter double no matter how hard she tried to stop. "Now for a demonstration of power." Without a thought the clown ignited the string and a loud boom echoed through the town as the cannon demolished a row of buildings. "Now it's your turn Nami!" Luka looked over at the other girl and wasn't surprised to see her scared face hidden behind faltering determination
"You want me…to kill her?" She walked up slowly to Buggy and Luka felt her eyes narrow at the look on his face.
"Do it." He didn't even give her a chance to dissuade him as he shoved the matches in her hand and crossed his arms. Nami walked up to the cannon and Luka watched as all of her emotions passed over her face. Nami's hands were shaking slightly and Luka could see the light dim in her eyes. "Nami! Stop stalling and light the cannon!" She jumped having been startled out of her thoughts and glanced back at her 'new captain'.
"Your hands are shaking. That's what you get for going up against pirates while being unprepared. You should be ready to risk your life at a moment notice…not shake like a stray dog." Another pirate pushed Nami aside and took the matches from her and Luka felt a smile creep up on her lips.
"What's the matter new girl? Don't ya know how to light a cannon?" He lit the match and touched the flame to the fuse with a smile. "See, flame to fuse, that's all you have to do." He turned to her and his eyes widened in pain as a staff connected to his middle and he was knocked out.
"Make up your mind Nami—will you kill me or will you save me?—A simple question I would like to think." Luka leaned back into the bars of her cage; the thought made her growl so she watched as Nami noticed the still burning flame. She yelled out something that Luka missed because she saw a flash of familiar green hair.
As Nami was about to be mauled by multiple men; Zoro stepped in between them with a lazy smirk and sword in hand. "How many pirates does it take to handle one girl?" Luka made a noise of offense and Zoro looked back at her. "You don't count." She felt her eye twitch and Zoro wisely shut up.
"Now that you've saved Nami, help me get out of here!" Luka yelled at him and he felt a headache coming on.
"How do you even get in these situations?" Luka laughed and Zoro rubbed his forehead with a sigh. He looked straight into her eyes and saw her glance to the cannon with a mischievous and blood thirsty smirk.
"So you are the famous bounty hunter, Roronoa Zoro. Here for my head are you?" Buggy tilted his head up with a smirk and Zoro ignored him completely as he turned fully to Luka.
"Who is the clown?" The clown crew gasped and Luka laughed freely.
"Careful Zoro, he has the chop-chop fruit so swords don't work on him." It seemed like time froze as everyone looked at her with wide eyes except Zoro who nodded in understanding. She rolled her eyes and glared at them as Zoro walked over to the cannon casually. "I'm not stupid!" Her head shot over to Zoro and growled when she saw blood drip from his side. He gasped, but didn't show any other form of pain and she swore revenge in that moment. Zoro pushed the cannon so it faced the clown crew and Luka smiled as he lit the cannon and ran to her.
"Do you have the key?" He looked at her and she shook her head sadly. "Alright then…" He grunted and picked the cage up with Nami screeching at him.
"Don't do that! Your insides will fall out!" Nami yelled at him and Luka rolled her eyes matching Zoro's expression.
"Then I'll just push 'em back in! I'm not leaving my captain behind!" Luka felt herself smile as he said this and she saw Nami flinch back.
"Don't worry Nami. We won't die and rest assured that Buggy will be punished for being so stupid. I wonder how Shanks could have ever been friends with someone like him." Again everything seemed to freeze as Zoro dropped the cage wide eyed in front of an animal food store.
"You know one of the four Yonko?!" Nami screeched her face paling.
"…Yes." Luka tilted her head and shrugged, it didn't really matter to her at the moment. What did matter was how she was going to get out of the cage. Well she could just punch free, but then it wouldn't be fun and her new crewmates needed some fights for themselves. She smiled and nodded to herself, yes that's exactly what she was going to do.
Noctis: I'm not going to lie...it's short and that makes me feel bad. I didnt exactly know what to write, but i do know that i got tired of copying the book so i changed it a bit. So i hope you enjoy this short chapter and i will try and post the next one as soon as i can, but between work and sleep i dont know when that will be.
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