Chapter Three, and this isn't really much when it comes to the story. I think this is a filler for what I have next, but this provides a better look into the boys' past. Well, you will know a bit on Nash, and you learn more about Peytan, especially his goals.

Anyway, is there anything else about this chapter I need to say before you start reading? Yes, there is a Navy crew in here.

Legal Stuff: I DO NOT own One Piece. One Piece is copyrighted by the great Eiichiro Oda. I do, however, own any original content mention in this series.

Chapter Three – A Navy Encounter

III

The sun's blistering rays beat upon the small dinghy, heating up the two boys that are in the boat. Peytan and Nash are far out in the ocean, and there they are lying on their backs baking in the sun. It has been a few hours since they left All Greens, and all ready they have reach over several miles at sea, thanks to Peytan's ability to create a gust of wind to push the boat along. But now, they are sitting in the middle of nowhere with the account of the sun at its highest point in the sky and it is letting its heat down on the ocean.

"Oh God, if only I took an account of the heat," Peytan said dryly.

"I know that All Greens gets hot," Nash said, "but it never gets this hot."

The two turn over and they allow to get their backs to bake. Their arms dangle over the side of the boat, with their fingers dip into the water and slowly running them along the top.

"You know, we should have grabbed some leaves before we left," said Peytan.

"Well, we could, but we didn't think we'll need them for this," Nash replied.

"Hey, why don't you try making something to cover us?"

"Uh, the heat's frying my brain," the surrealist replied, "and plus my hat's starting to get my hair on fire."

He lifts his hat up and he shows that his green hair is on fire. Peytan reacts to this by taking his left hand and splashes some seawater over the flaming golfer. The water puts the fire out and Nash is drench in the cold water, with smoke rising up from his bald spot on his head.

"I so deserve that," Nash said, shaking off the excess water. Once he is dry, the water in his hair starts to make his strands expand and blows his hair out, forming an afro. "Groovy!"

Peytan lets out a joyful laugh as Nash pushes down on his top hat to get his hair back to its messy look. After fixing his hat, Nash then sticks his hand into the water and he splashes the psychic, cooling him off as well. The two of them enjoy their time splashing each other before relaxing with the coolness of the water protecting them from the sun's heat.

"You know, I think I made the right choice having you join my crew," said Peytan.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I mean, here we are, we barely know each other, and we're getting along like the best of friends," the psychic said. "We seem to have a connection from the moment we met, and now you're here in the same boat with me having a time of your life."

"Well we can't do much in this small boat," the surrealist replied. "Sure, we can do stuff, only until one of us tips us over."

"Yeah, if we're going to make it big, we need to get a bigger ship," Peytan said.

The two of them stood up in the dinghy and they look out into the ocean in hopes that they could see a boat. They look in all directions, tilting so they could see beyond each other, and they could not see a single ship in the horizon. The two sulk down back into the dinghy, sighing in disappointment as they hope for a ship to come by and try to get a ride to the nearest island.

"What are we going to do?" Nash asked. "We're going to die out here if we don't get something to eat."

"If only there is a ship," Peytan said, forming his hands into a scope. "At least we could act like the pirates we are and steal some food."

"Yeah, and only to find out that we're stealing from some big name like the Supernovas."

"You know I never really heard much about them," the psychic said, removing his hands from his eye. "The only big names I know about are the Jolly Roger pirates."

"Yeah, their reputation still lingers throughout the world," Nash said, cross-armed. "With some of Gol D. Roger's crew members still alive, they are the ones that are keeping his name still alive, even with Monkey D. Luffy being the new King of the Pirates."

"Well, I just so happen to have this still on me," Peytan said, reaching below his seat. "I kept it with me for all this time, just to allow me to remember the times me reading it."

The psychic boy pulls out a worn-out book, with the hard cover tearing at the edges and pages weathered from storms and age. On the cover are letters etched in gold "The Tales of the Jolly Roger Pirates" with a fainted name written underneath the title. Nash takes the book from Peytan's hand and he begins to flip through the pages, scanning through everything that passes by.

"Man, this book is ancient," the golfer said. "How long did you have this thing?"

"For most of my life," Peytan replied. "I remember my father receiving it when I was young, but then he couldn't keep it thanks to its pirate ties, so he gave it to me, since I was too young to join the Navy."

"Actually I know a few people back on All Greens that had their children go off to the Navy at very young ages," Nash said.

"Well, as I was saying, when I first got it, I really was fascinated by the story about the crew and this began my thinking of becoming a pirate. But then, my parents are in the Navy and with pirates being the outlaws that they are, it's hard to start my dream if they are in the Navy."

"I hate to ask but what happen to your parents?" Nash asked, sounding a bit disgusted.

"There is a section in there about the person I met," replied the psychic boy.

Nash flips through the pages until he comes across a bookmark in the pages. From what he is seeing, his eyes widen by the words and he almost allows the book to slip from his hands. The young golfing prodigy flips through the section that Peytan carefully took care of, sliding his fingers across the words to read the story and then moves the fingers so he can turn the page.

"You see, I lost my parents two years ago, and it was from what you are reading," Peytan said.

"Wait, so you actually met Negrot Baret himself?" Nash asked. "The one and only Green Baret of the Baret Army crew?"

"The First Division Captain, I have met him in the flesh."

Nash is speechless, staring into Peytan with a blank stare, all before he throws his head back and lets a strange laughter. Peytan wonders about why he is laughing like that until Nash brings his head back forward.

"Are you serious? You actually met the Green Baret himself?"

"Uh, yeah," Peytan shrugs. "I don't see how this is a big deal."

"Dude, you met the legendary secret apprentice to the great Gol D. Rogers," the young golfer said. "If that doesn't say anything, then call me an idiot with surreal powers."

"Yes, I did met Baret a long time ago," Peytan said, continuing with his story. "His crew did raid our ship those two years ago, and he briefly took me and my family under his wing. But…"

"Let me guess, he turn on your parents after he found out they were in the Navy?"

"No, one of the crew members ate the Storm-Storm Fruit, and Baret got zapped by lightning," the psychic boy corrected. "Then the ship was split into two by the same person."

"Ah, so it's a traitor to his captain, who then wants to be the captain," Nash said.

"I don't think that was the case," said Peytan. "Those powers seem like to be from lack of experience, not from total control."

"So does that mean…?"

"I know my parents and Baret are still alive out there, and I'm going to find them," Peytan said.

Nash scratches his head. "Yeah, I'm not sure how we're going on a manhunt that will probably get us into more trouble if the Navy finds out that we are holding your parents on an active pirate ship."

"I'm pretty sure that my parents can talk it out," Peytan said, trying to find the best answer to this situation. "So, do you know anything about your parents?"

"My parents?" Nash puts his head down and begins to think about it. "Well, I'm not sure about my parents. I have never really met them, since I was orphaned at a young age. The only person that treated me like a son was the mayor."

"Orphaned at such a young age," the psychic replied. "Well, you got lucky to be raised the way you used to."

"Well, at least I'm out of there," Nash said. "Sure, it's interesting to play there, but it gets repetitive. At least I can find the Golden Golf Ball now."

"So, you're after a gold golf ball?"

"Oh yeah, the Golden Golf Ball is the highest quality golf ball every player should have in their inventory. But the thing is that the Golden Golf Ball is made out of the purest of gold, found only deep within the Grand Line and the stuff is hard to forge, meaning that one can be made every fifty years."

"And you got with that one, right?"

The golfer gives a nod in response. "Once I find the Golden Golf Ball, I'm going to make sure that I have a tether on the thing so that if a black hole ever sucks it up again, I'll now know where it's heading."

The two boys let out a laugh and they relax themselves as they continue to drift along. "So you have any goals that you want to achieve as a pirate?" Nash asked.

"There's one that I had ever since I was a child, and there was one that I made a promise to," Peytan replied. "My childhood dream is that I would become the next King of the Pirates, since he who holds One Piece has the title of King of the Pirates."

"Yeah, but does Monkey D. Luffy have One Piece and is the current King of the Pirates?"

"Yes, but that's why I said that I want to be the next king."

"Uh, how exactly are you going to achieve that?" Nash said. "One: you don't have a good enough crew; two: Luffy's crew is the toughest crew in all of the seas, and we'll be murdered if we go up against them; three: exactly how are we going to go through the Grand Line in a dinghy; four and I think this is very important: your parents are in the Navy! If the rest find out about you, the son of Navy officers, being the King of the Pirates, wouldn't that make your parents easy targets for a counterstrike against you?"

Peytan sits on his side of the dinghy, thinking hard about the words rattling in his head. "You know, I had just about everything set into play when I started two years ago," he said. "I was thinking that we could get ourselves an armored ship, get a well balanced crew full of some powerhouses, and with my title as a son of a well respected Navy officer and also me meeting the one and only Baret, the Navy wouldn't even dare mess with me."

"I hope you're right about this," the surrealist said. "I don't want to die in front of the Navy after I got my Golden Golf Ball back."

"Hey, with your and my Cursed Devil Fruits, they won't stand a chance against us."

Nash then points behind Peytan and the two look to the back of the dinghy to find a ship coming towards them. When the ship got close for them to get them a better look, instead of getting a happy outcome for the situation, they grew a grim and disappointed. The ship coming towards them is made out of a very light brown wood, with the sails white and has a pattern etched into the main sail. Up on the main mast, a white flag is blowing in the wind, and it haves the same pattern like it is on the sail, and it haves the word "Marines" etch into the flag.

It is a Navy ship, and to the boys' relief, it isn't a large ship.

The Navy ship comes cruising up to the dinghy and the boys got under some covering to hide from the men onboard. Then Peytan remembers the sails, so he carefully pulls the sails down and replaces them with the same sails like the Navy's ship. The psychic boy and Nash got themselves into a position where they are evenly space so they aren't touching and that they aren't sticking out like sore thumbs. The two stay as still as possible, not trying to make any sudden movements that could catch an officer's eye and get them into trouble.

Up on deck, a few Navy officers are on guard duty, looking out into the ocean waters for any signs of a pirate ship heading towards their ship and, if there is one, they are ready to fight. One of those officers is the young Julien, who is now wearing a standard Navy uniform and haves her sword strapped to her back instead of being attach to her belt, which is holding up two flint-lock pistols. She is leaning up against the railing, staring out into space as she begins to wander about Peytan.

"Julien!"

The girl snaps straight up and she quickly turns around to see who called her name. Behind her is a naval captain, her commanding officer, and beside him is another officer, only he is a higher rank than Julien. The commanding officer of the ship is ranked captain, with the rank pinned onto his left breast. His uniform is the opposite color of what the normal officers are wearing, which is a blue with white trimmings overcoat, white pants, black shoes, and gold buttons over his overcoat. The officer next to the captain is not much different from Julien, but it was rank that separates her from him.

"Captain Terrier! Is there something that you want me for?" Julien asked, bowing her head for her captain.

"You have been day-dreaming, have you?" the captain replied.

She picks her head back up and her face flushes red. "Uh, yes Captain Terrier, I was day-dreaming," the girl officer replied.

The captain takes the rifle that is in the high-rank officer and he takes the barrel and puts it under Julien's chin, while keeping his hands away from the trigger. "Now listen here missy, I know this is your first day out at sea, but I don't tolerate slackers onboard my ship," Captain Terrier said. "Now, keep a sharp look-out for any signs of pirates and report to me if you see a ship."

"Yes captain!" replied Julien, as her captain removes the barrel from her chin.

"I will assign Major Thrash here to make sure that you are staying on task," Captain Terrier said, handing the rifle back over to the major. "Again, if you see a pirate ship, report it to me."

The captain heads back to his head, leaving his major to be with the new recruit. Julien is still bright red, not from being with Major Thrash but she is still feeling embarrass in front of her commanding officer on her first day of active day.

"Don't worry about the captain," Major Thrash said. "As long as we keep our mouths shut, we'll make certain that you stay with us for a long time."

"Uh, thank you major," replied Julien, beginning to lose her embarrassment.

Then they notice two officers rolling up a dinghy from the water and up to the railing. The officers then uncover the blanket, revealing Peytan and Nash and the two boys came rolling out from the boat and onto the deck. The Navy officers look at the boys confusingly, while Julien looks in horror as Peytan begins to stretch from being under the cover.

"Man, I sure deserve that," the psychic boy said, before noticing the four officers around him. "Oh, this isn't what I was inspecting."

"What were you two doing in this boat here?" Major Thrash asked.

"What we were doing? I'll tell you what we're doing," Nash said, with Peytan giving him a look saying "don't say anything!" "We were running away from the Magic Maniacs, that's it."

The officers are now stunned. "You mean the crew of Alakazam and his magic freaks?" an officer said. "You're saying that they're out here in these waters?"

"We were just fishing to get our food," Peytan said, illiberally lying right in front of Julien, "and that's when they came along and attack us."

"We caught a good load of fish, too," Nash said, continuing on with the pseudo-story. "We collected a good amount to last us five months."

"We're sorry about that," Julien said, stepping in. "Why don't you stay for a bit and get some grub in?"

"Won't we?" the two boys replied simultaneously.

With that, the group made their way to the mess hall, but before Peytan takes his first step, Julien grabs him by his collar and drags him over to a private part of the ship.

"Peytan, what the hell are you doing on a Navy ship?" the girl asked, in a hush tone.

"You were the ones that dragged us up here," the psychic replied. "We had no intentions of coming aboard since we know how you Navy are against us pirates."

"Yeah, but I will like to get you and your new crew member back out in the water before I get thrown out of the Navy," Julien said in an almost growl.

"Relax, will ya? It's not like your members are going to find out that we're pirates, right? Besides, we need food and the next island isn't like for another week's worth of traveling."

After a few minutes, Julien lets go of Peytan's vest and she gives the boy a small hug. "Still, it's nice to see you. I can't repay you enough for helping me get into the Navy."

"Well, just giving us food is all I will ask for," Peytan said, rubbing the back of his head with a smiling grin.

"So, uh, were you being serious about the Magic Maniacs attacking you?" asked Julien, now curious.

"Well, they did attack us back at All Greens, but not at sea," the psychic replied. "Alakazam wanted Nash to join his crew and he was looking for this Magic Orb as well. We're not sure what the Magic Orb is, but we did get away before Alakazam could catch Nash."

"So the Magic Maniacs are in these waters as we speak?"

"Possibly. Nash did trick them with a distraction and they are still following us, but it's hard to tell if they are heading in our direction."

"Then they could be..."

She was cut off of her sentence as they heard shouting from down below the deck. Julien grabs her sword and she rushes down below to reach up with the rest of her crew to see what the problem is. Peytan was right behind her, but he disappears as they notice Nash tangling with Navy officers, as the surrealist is throwing cards around the room and several men are dodging the fiery, icy and explosive cards. It was then that Julien was pull aside and she was hidden from view.

"Listen, me and Nash need to get off of here without having ourselves being true pirates," Peytan said, mentioning about having them on wanted posters.

"But what can I do?" Julien replied. "If Captain Terrier finds out about this, I'll surely be out of the Navy."

"Not unless we have a plan."

Then an officer grabs a rifle from a wall and aims it directly at Nash's head. The boy throws the gunman a smile and he slips down into the floor, disappearing in time before the bullet whizzes over his top hat and hitting another officer in the shoulder. The golfer reemerges, spinning a golf club in his left hand while taking a glass shard in his right hand and moves it in-between his fingers.

"Now I got a question for you men. If they say breaking glass causes seven years of bad luck, what does that say about shards?" Nash said, making several shards in his right hand.

He revolves around once and he tosses the glass shards at the Navy officers, sending hundreds of shards in their direction. The shards hit the men, but they didn't hit any flesh, which then send the men to the far wall and pinning them there. Peytan and Julien look around the corner and they notice Nash giving a smile as he had taken down several men using only one move, while keeping them alive.

"I have never seen pirates quite like you," Julien said.

"What can we say? We definitely are a weird bunch," Peytan said.

"Hey captain, I got enough food here to last us until we get to the next island," Nash said, using the club he haves out to point to a large sack of food.

"Good. Now let's get that outside and get out of here before anyone else decides to take us on," ordered Peytan.

The two grab a hold of the sack and begin to lift it out of the room, while Julien leads them out. After making sure that the deck is clear, she leads them back over to the dinghy they were previously using and they drop the sack into the boat, which then sent the boat dropping down into the water and floating away from the ship.

"Well, there goes a week's worth of food," Peytan said.

Behind them, they heard a stern cough and they look to see that Captain Terrier is out, now holding onto a sword still in his sheath. Nash uses his quick thinking and he falls to the side, stiff as a board and Peytan and Julien look at each other to come up with a silent plan. After coming up with something, Julien takes out her sword and she pins Peytan over the railing, placing the sword behind his neck.

"Oh Captain, I see you're here seeing me taking care of these two pirates," she said, lying straight at her captain.

"Pirates? These two are pirates?" the captain asked, getting closer to a better examination.

"They don't look like it, but they can fool anyone with their appearances," the girl officer said, continuing to go along with the skit.

"And we could got away with our plan as well, if it weren't for this observant officer here," Peytan said, playing along with the plan.

Captain Terrier looks at Nash and he gives the boy a good kick in the stomach, just to see if this is not a trap.

"Well, what now?" hissed the psychic boy.

"I don't know. It's up to you to decide of getting out of here," Julien replied, also whispering.

"Fredzilla! Fredzilla!"

The captain turns around to see what Nash was shouting about, but all he could see is a black bird sitting on the railing. He begins to twitch his eye as he turns around to notice that both Nash and Peytan have disappeared from view and are out in the boat. Terrier looks out to see the two boys in the boat, with the young pirate captain waving back to Julien and not to the Navy captain.

"What just happened?" Captain Terrier asked. "How did those pirates escaped?"

"It was that one boy that was on the ground," Julien said, now telling the truth. "He used some sort of portal that teleported both him and the pirate I had captured."

The captain gives a grunt. "Missy, there are no such things as portals," he said. He turns his head back to the sailing pirates. "But I have seen some Cursed Devil Fruit powers in my life, and I may have never seen such a fruit like that one boy."

"Oh, you have no idea," Julien replied, with her commanding officer giving her a questioning look. "I don't mean it like that! I mean, I heard of Cursed Devil Fruit, but I never really experienced one in front of me."

"Well, it's still lucky that you're going to stay out here," Terrier said. "Though you let the pirates get away this time, it doesn't mean that they are going to keep running away. Eventually, the Navy will capture them and they will be brought to justice."

"Yes Captain," the girl officer responded, bowing for her captain.

"Come now, we need to free the men from the glass shards," Captain Terrier said, motioning Julien to go below deck.

III

"Man, that was too close," Peytan said, rubbing his neck. "I swear, if it wasn't your fruit's power that didn't saved us back there, I'll be a headless body right about now."

"Well, that's what you get with my portals," Nash carelessly shrugs. "They're as good as my distractions, only I have true control over them."

"I got to give you credit for that distraction back there," the psychic said, pulling his hand to check to see if the bleeding stop. "Man, tricking a naval captain like that is really an achievement right there."

"I aim to please."

"I here that," Peytan said, sticking his hand into the water. "Now that we got ourselves food for the trip, all we have to do is wait out and hopefully hit an island before we starve to death."

"I wonder that once we get ourselves a ship, should we get ourselves a chef right away?" Nash said, taking out an apple from the bag. "I mean, it's not like between the two of us can cook or anything, but we can't just eat this food plain."

"Yeah, but we'll see what we can do," Peytan said. "It's not like we're going to get something falling from the sky."

With that, Peytan slaps his hands together and a gust of wind begins to propel the dinghy forward. During this, a bright light shoots across the skies, briefly leaving a streak before disappearing into the blue skies.

The boys have escape from a Navy ship by using "Fredzilla" as a distraction. Man, that line is a classic, and I can't find anything that is funnier than that. Seriously, if you watch Whose Line, then you understand what I mean about this.

So now, here we meet a Navy crew, with Captain Terrier as its leader, Major Thrash as a subordinate, and Julien just a recruit at this point. And I got to explore more of my friend's power by giving him the ability to shoot glass shards from his right hand, and his interest in using playing cards as an another instrument in combat. You can say that Nash is like a walking male Alice in Wonderland, with the Looking Glass, cards, top hat, and... well, the portals are based from Portal. Interesting game, by the way.

Again, I don't take credit for anything that is used to reference Nash. They are copyrighted by their creators, especially Nash as he belongs to my friend.

So anywho, I like for you to review, thank you. So, is there anything else on the way? Well, I gave another hint.