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Warning: Chibified Strawhats and diabete-worthy moments.
Special guest: Jewelry Bonney! Yay!
A/N: Sorry about not mentioning this, but the chibi-fied crewmember's clothes shrunk as well. That's all.
Chapter 3: C is for Children (Part 2)
"How is she, Doctor-san?" Robin asked as she walked into the crew's sick bay. Chopper didn't flinched at the sudden entrance, gaze fixated on the sleeping form of the Supernova on the bed. The pink haired girl was sleeping soundly, with occasional mumbles of food that made Robin chuckled. Sometimes, she sneezed loudly before murmuring incoherently and snorted.
Well, even though she's a lady, she is a pirate.
"She's okay. Just drained. There must have been a fight or something." Chopper said quietly. "And there are hints of hunger, too. I wonder if she had enough nutritions or any eating disorder..."
"Hm..." Robin hummed as she sat herself next to the little doctor's chair. They both stared at the young woman in comforting silence.
"When do you think she'll wake up?" Chopper inquired.
"I don't know. In a few hours, I supposed."
"What about the others? What are they doing now?"
"They are playing with Franky-san and Brook-san outside the deck."
"Oh..." Chopper sighed sadly, and Robin didn't miss the action. She gently plucked him from his seat and set him down, winking at him.
"Go out and have fun. I'll be watching her."
The little reindeer's face brightened immediately. He jumped up and hugged the raven before running out in glee.
"Thanks a lot, Robin!" He called out before closing the wooden door behind him.
Robin couldn't help but smile.
Brook loved children, really. They brought smiles to his face, even though he didn't have one (Yohohoho! Skull Joke!). Also, they reminded him greatly of his dear captain and crew, the Rumbar Pirates who made crying children laughed. Those were his most precious heydays when he could run around and play his trusted violin without scaring off the little kids.
Well, not that the chibi-version of the Straw Hats were scared anyways. Since Luffy was now having a great time sticking snot onto his afro, Franky was keeping Usopp busy with his retractable hands and Nami was shouting at the two fighting boys.
His nakama never change. Brook sighed and sipped his tea.
"It sure is peaceful, Franky-san."
Luffy farted.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN PEACEFUL, SKELETON FACE?" Franky yelled when he was dragged into the mini fist-fight. Even though they were young, the cook's kicks still hurt, and Sword-bro still packed mean punches. Hold on a minute... Yep, Nami had crushed his privates.
"ASDFGHJKLAJHDGFDHFGS!"
"Language infront of children, Franky-san."
Luffy burped.
By then, the little reindeer had joined his crew on the grassy deck. Fortunately, the little fight stopped as Brook stepped in to help. Zoro and Sanji was ordered to sit in opposite ends on the deck, and Usopp and Nami were comfortable enough to enjoy the day.
"Hey guys!" Chopper waved to his friends.
"Wathup, Choppew!" Usopp smiled and gestured towards the seat next to him. "Wanna pway?"
"Yeah!" Chopper grinned and plopped down next to Usopp and Nami, forming a little circle in the middle of the deck. "So what are we playing?"
"Let's play house." Declared Nami." I'll be the mama, Usopp will be the papa and Chopper will be the son!"
Usopp pouted and crossed his arms. "Nah, House is foh thithies (sissies). We pway Super Hewoes." With that, he jumped up and did a pose.
"I wiw be teh Capton! I mean Cattan! I mean Cap-Crap-er-Kappa!" He stuttered, making Nami and Chopper laughed while Brook and Franky shared a chuckle.
"It's captain, you dummy." Nami giggled, missing the start of an argument. "I'll be the orange heroine, who has super witch magic and wears an orange cape!"
"Then I wiw be teh conning (cunning) yewow (yellow) hewo who can shoots weaw fast!" Usopp cheered, before turning to his fluffy friend. "'Watcha gonna be, Choppew?"
He only saw air.
"Waaaah! Choppew ith mithing!"
"What? What do we do now?!"
"I don't know!"
"I'm here, you dummies!" A small voice interrupted. Both Usopp and Nami turned around to find, in shock, that Chopper was deer-napped by a rubbery pair of arms. Luffy as a two years old seemed more brainless as ever, courtesy of the missing braincells from the earlier power impact.
The child wrapped his arms around his furry friend and hugged him tightly, chanting the word "Meat" over and over like a mantra as he coated Chopper with his drool. The little doctor didn't like that, so he tried to pry himself from his mini captain to no avail, since the child still had that iron grip, and he didn't want to hurt him. The pair wrestled each other for a while on the ground, drawing attention from other crew members.
Suddenly, Sanji stood up from his corner and walked over to wear Luffy was sitting, trailing behind was Usopp and Nami. He stared at the little form of his captain with a glint in his eye before taking a deep breath and...
"DOG PILE!"
The blond boy laughed and pounced on the two unfortunate crew mates. Usopp and Nami exchange grins and they jumped on their friends also, with Usopp spread eagle on his stomache on Sanji's back and Nami sitting on Usopp's legs. They broke into a bunch of giggles and snickers, with Luffy being the loudest of all. Chopper was squished breathlessly underneath, but he couldn't help but laugh along at his crew's childish antics. Franky and Brook chuckled on the side-line and then yelped as Luffy pulled two of them into the pile also, not caring if the others might be hurt.
"Shi shi shi shi! Thith ith fwun!" He exclaimed. Sanji agreed whole-heartedly as he snuggled deeper into the pile, sneaking pinches and tickles at others.
"They are lapsing - OOF!" Franky told Brook when Nami rolled onto his back.
"Yes, I did notice the child-like behaviours." Brook said before laughing. "Yo ho ho ho! Being a kid again is great! So just enjoy these pure and youthful moments before they grow old with responsibilities of adults again!"
"You said it bro." Franky broke into manly tears. "Hey, where's Zoro?"
Meanwhile, the little swordsman was wandering around he ship in search for his swords. They were taken away for safety precautions since he was now too small for them. Zoro grumbled and pushed open the door to the medic room to find Robin sitting there with a book in her hand. He noticed pink hair and decided that the supernova was resting on the bed. He pushed the door further and fully stepped into the room.
Robin looked up from her book and smiled a tiny bit. "Oh hello Swordsman-san, I didn't notice your entrance."
Zoro hesitated for a bit. Hesitated? When was I hesitated? He took small steps towards the archeologist, who raised an eyebrow at the action. Unbeknownst to her, Zoro was feeling a little tired, and somehow her lap looked so inviting (NOT IN THAT WAY, PERVS). He yawned widely and wiped his eyes. It was so hard to control his emotions now that he was a child. And his personality was changing, too, which was not a good thing.
Robin looked at the younger boy, intrigued with what he was doing. It was rather cute, actually, that the swordsman was now like a book, so easy to read. He stared at her in return, eyes kept darting from hers to her lap before watering up as he stifled another yawn. His movements were similar to Chopper's when the little reindeer was sleepy.
Oh my, how adorable... Robin's smile went wider. She leaned down from her chair and gently picked Zoro up from the ground, setting him down onto her laps and leaned back, making the child leaned as well. Zoro squirmed and blushed heavily, obviously embarrassed and frustrated that he was so easy to read. Robin giggled quietly.
"It's okay, Swordsman-san. You are just a child, you know."
"Bu-but! I didn't want to do this, woman. I just wanna sleep!" Zoro growled as his face went a few shades redder.
"And you will sleep. Now shush, we have a patient here."
Before he could protest, Robin pushed his green head gently to her chest, humming a small lullaby. Zoro turned pink and mentally kicked himself for being so uncontrolled unlike his adult self. Slowly, his eyelids drooped and he relaxed into the warmth. The song was making him sleepy, and before he knew it, he was asleep, cuddling like a baby on Robin's laps.
The archeologist split into a genuine smile. She carefully wrapped her arms around the sleeping boy and sprouted another pair to hold her book. Soon enough, Robin also succumbed to the warmth radiating from the boy's body and went to Dream Land, not before placing her book onto the desk behind her.
"Sleep well, Swordsman-san..." She murmured.
A groan jolted Robin awake from her slumber. She opened an eye and smiled slightly when the patient woke up. With a burst of petals, she pushed the awakened Supernova back onto the bed, making the young woman jumped at the gesture.
"Now, now. You don't want to move yet." Robin spoke calmly, her multiple arms still holding the younger pirate down.
"Wha? Where am I?" Bonney asked. Her voice was throaty and slurred. She must had not fully recovered yet.
Robin gave the pinkette her trademark mysterious smile and said. "You are now in our crew's sick bay."
"You're crew? Wait, I recognize you." Bonney said, her face serious. "You are Devil's Child, Nico Robin of the Strawhat Pirates." At that, she paused, eyes wide.
"I'm on that idiot swordsman's ship?" She shrieked before being silence by a finger on her lips.
"Sshh... You'll wake him up." Robin whispered, indicating the sleeping child in her arms.
"Is-is that him?"
"Why yes." Robin blinked amusedly. "He was turned into a child because of you. While you were frightened, you turned some of us into children. We would like you to turn them back."
"Why would I?" Bonney stuck her tongue out playfully.
"Our cook is also turned into a child." Robin informed. "Without him, you'll be hungry."
That hit the right spot.
"WHAT?!" The Supernova shouted, but shut up when Robin gave her a look. "But, but, I can't live without food!"
"Then we will make an exchange." The raven-haired woman hummed. "You turn our crewmembers back to normal, and I'll ask out cook to cook a feast. And him being one of East Blue's Baratie greatest chef is a plus."
The way the younger girl's eyes shone was the same as when Robin said the same thing to her captain. Jewelry Bonney had fallen hard now.
After changing the sleeping green-haired child back to the resident swordsman - who was still sleeping, by the way - the two lady pirates made their way to the front deck, where chaos was happening.
They arrived just in time to see a little blond boy laughing while chasing a smaller crying boy with amazing speed, even though they were still very young. A red-head girl was crying by a skeleton's side, wailing something about how her captain was so mean. Said captain, the tiniest child of all, was holding a fluffy reindeer in his rubbery arms, pouting and sticking his tongue out in every direction. And their was that cyborg who laid beaten on the ground, a massive storm cloud hanging over his head.
"Need a hand there, Franky-san?" Robin inquired lightly, walking over the massive body of the shipwright.
"Too... many... kids... Need to... rest." Came her defeated reply, to which she smiled amusedly at. She then walked back to where her "guest" was standing, poor girl was shocked at the sheer craziness of the Strawhat Crew.
"Wh-What is this?!" Bonney exclaimed as she dodged a flying rubber child "I've never seen something like this before!"
"They are my crewmates, Miss Bonney." A voice spoke behind her. She turned around and screamed at the sight of a skeleton with humongous afro looming over her.
The skeleton laughed and bowed, much to her shock "My sincerest apologies. Let me introduce myself. I'm "Dead bones" Brook, musician and swordsman of the Strawhat Pirates. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"..." The pinkette could only stand there, her mouth kept opening and closed like a fish.
"... May I see your panties?"
"LIKE HELL YOU BASTARD!" Bonney yelled and whipped her leg to kick the perverted heap of bones away from her pants. A pair of hands suddenly sprouted from her shoulders and held her tight from using her powers, and four more appeared to fold her arms tightly around her body
"What?" She looked over to the mysterious archeologist who was smiling creepily at her.
"We still have a deal, remember?" Robin said. "Turn them back, please."
Bonney stared at the dark-haired woman and sighed in defeat. "Okay, but you still owe me a meal."
The pinkette inhaled a deep breath and concentrated her power into her palms. One by one, the youngsters were turned back to normal at the touch of the Supernova. Soon, sprawled on the deck was the four pirates, three were breathing heavily because of their spent energy and one was bemoaning for his meal. Bonney huffed and crossed her arms, demanding for her reward.
"Oh, my angel of beauty~ Your meal will be done soon~!" The blond cook sang as he kicked his captain in the head and danced himself towards the kitchen. Nami kept circling the strange woman, eye brow raised skeptically as she sized up the older girl. Behind her was the long-nose liar, who was trembling in fear that he might be turned into an old man in a matter of seconds if he made a wrong move. Chopper had already left, walking back to his sick bay to wake up the sleeping swordsman.
"So." The fiery-head navigator clasped her hands together. "You only need a meal, right?"
"Yep." Bonney nodded, to which Nami smiled. She (Nami) didn't know how much the pirate can eat, so she waved her hand a bit, indicating that she agreed on the term for the sake of not being de-aged again.
"Well, then come on. The foods won't eat themselves."
The whole crew stared at Bonnet as she ate.
"SHISHISHISHI! She can eat at fast as me!" Luffy roared in laughter at his friends' faces, before turning back to finish his meat.
"Urgh." Nami moaned "Do you know how much food we waste? How much money I have to spend on buying them?" Then she promptly slammed head first onto the table. "Zoro, I'm putting the money onto your debt."
"WHAT? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I DIDN'T EAT A BITE!" Zoro snapped.
"It's because you're the one who brought her to the ship."
"Damn witch!" Zoro was cut off as a black polished shoe collided with his face, sending him through a wall, much to the chagrin of a certain shipwright.
"I'm sorry Nami-san. The marimo brute doesn't have a brain to warn him not to say untruthful things about a lady." Sanji bowed to the smug navigator before Zoro knocked him over with his sword's hilt.
"WHO DID YOU CALL MARIMO BRUTE, AHO-COOK?"
"WHO DO YOU CALL AHO-COOK, PLANT HEAD?"
"CURLY-Q!"
"SHITTY SWORDSMAN!"
"DART-BOARD BROW!"
"SWORDSBOY!"
"KNOCK IT OFF YOU TOO!" Nami punched both guys in the face.
Robin laughed lightly at the other side of the table. "You know, Zoro was very cute when he was a child." She said to Usopp, which made him surprised.
"Zoro? Being cute?" The liar gaped in disbelief. "You got to be kidding me!"
"I think so, too." Brook agreed, sipping his tea. "But children are very much adorable, especially our previously de-aged members."
"Of course! Captain Usopp was the cutest boy when he was young!" Usopp struck a pose. "When I was young, about three years old, people called me the most heart-breakin adorkably cute boy! I remember when I entered that contest and..." He began to babble nonsense to the sparkly-eyed young doctor.
"I think I like the others this way." Franky said next to Usopp, massaging his forehead. "They are very annoying when they are younger."
"But I have to admit. While I love my crewmates for who they are, the children surely gained a soft spot from me." Robin smiled at the cyborg.
The five members sat in comfortable silence as they watched the chaos unfolding infront of their eyes. Jewelry Bonney and Luffy were having an eating showdown, while Zoro argued with Nami and Sanji running around, confused if he would side with his crush or make more food for the pink-haired beauty. Five minutes later, Robin spoke up.
"I have pictures."
"Show us." The other four by her side grinned.
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them"
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
"Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. " - Rick Riordan.
"Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics."
- Stephen King.
"When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit." - Johnny Depp.
Sorry for not uploading for so long! I was busy with everything :P I hope you like the quotes up there. One is from my favorite author, Rick Riordan! I love his books :D Next is the alphabet D!
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