Attention! I will be out of the country for two and half weeks starting Wednesday night, so Chapter 8 will be scheduled to publish on Thursday or Friday, for I'm not sure if I will have internet access readily available. So in accordance with this, I apologize in advance for any irregularities with updating that may occur. Thank you for reading!

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Chapter 7: Stubborn Captain!

Spade was napping in his boat when he heard a ship approaching.

"Huh?" Spade said as he sat up with bleary eyes. "WHOOOOA!"

The ship he heard approaching was a pirate vessel bearing down directly onto his boat. It was a large, three mast galleon and flew a pirate flag with the skull's left side showing and crossed cutlass', but the skull had a silver bandanna and a gold diamond-shaped earring. The bow of the ship was decorated with

"Man that is a big ship!" Spade commented, admiring the ship. Then Spade realized that if he didn't move out of the ship's way, his boat would either break or overturn, and he'd drown.

Spade looked around his boat. "Huh... now where did I put the paddles?"

"Captain!" shouted one of the crew members. He was wearing a golden square-hoop earring. "There's a small vessel at 12 o'clock. What should we do with it?"

"Does it have any treasure on it?" the captain asked.

"It does not show any sign of holding treasure captain, but there seems to be a young man looking for something," replied the same crew member.

"Have us come up along the vessel's port side and bring him aboard," the captain commanded and smiled viciously. "Let us show him whose waters he's been sailing on," he said as he stroked his mustache.

"Aye Captain!" The crew member turned to face the rest of the crew and began shouting orders.

The captain was a tan male and had straggly black hair that stopped just below his shoulders, an imperial mustache, and sideburns that showed from beneath the silver bandanna wrapped around his head. He had a golden earring in the shape of a diamond in his left ear as well. He wore a silver coat that had ruffles and lace lining coming out of the sleeves, the cuffs had two gold diamond-shaped buttons each, black knee breeches, white stockings, black shoes with gold diamond-shaped buckles, and a white shirt that showed from beneath his coat. He also had a cutlass with an eloquent silver guard strapped to his left hip.

"Tsk. You should just leave whoever that man is alone and focus on me. I'm the bigger threat, after all," replied a man in thick handcuffs. He was tied around the main mast by rope.

"AHAHAHAHA! You're no more dangerous than a fly!" laughed the captain. The rest of the crew joined in.

"GET BACK TO WORK!" yelled the captain. "I want to know what that man is hiding!" The crew immediately turned back to the task at hand.

As the huge galleon closed the distance between them and Spade's boat, the captain took the time to analyze his prisoner. He looked to be in his early to mid-twenties and had short shaggy black hair and brown eyes, as well as fairly tanned skin and no facial hair. He was of strong but lean build - 'It was only by luck that we got those cuffs on him' the captain thought - and wore a navy blue tank top, black cotton pants and boots, with a Marine Lieutenant Commander's coat hanging from his shoulders. The coat had the original blue epaulettes with gold fringe and red shoulder straps, as well as the word "justice" stroked onto the back, but what was heinous about this coat was that the word was crossed out in red paint, making it look as if the graffiti was made with blood.

"You know I'm only on this ship to get to my sister," said the man.

"Well, too bad you'll never see her where you're going," the captain said, chuckling. "Nakayama Hikari will not be on the island by the time we get there."

"Liar," the man said with a monotone.

"Oh no, it's true. She's going to be shipped off to Marine HQ soon, where as we have all the time in the world to turn you in, Daiki. Why, you could possibly die of starvation before you ever reached the island, though there is no chance of that with the bounty I'll be collecting soon," the captain said before maniacally laughing.

"Sir, we've successfully pulled up next to the boat," the man with the square earring said.

"And?" the captain said rubbing his hands together in anticipation.

"There isn't any treasure on the boat," the crew member said sadly.

"Dammit! Then bring me the boy!" the captain practically yelled, clearly angered.

"Umm, we couldn't find the boy, captain," the man said hesitantly.

"WHAAAAAT?" the captain screamed.

"I- I said-"

"No, no, I heard you," the captain said curtly. "I just don't understand why you're my first mate and second in command if you can't do ANYTHING RIGHT!" He stomped his foot.

"s- so- sorry sir..." the first mate said ashamedly.

"Yes, well, the guy couldn't have swum to shore..." the captain contemplated." We are nowhere near land, so he must be somewhere on this ship..."

"Ah! Good thinking captain!" yelled the crew, who were all wearing silver bandannas and gold earrings in various geometric shapes. "We'll start looking for him right away!" The crew scrambled away into the ship.

"You've got a pretty useless crew there "Silver Cutlass" Shadoi," Daiki said quite plaintively.

"YOU SHUT UP!" Shadoi yelled as he tried to stomp his foot into Daiki's face. Daiki dropped his head slightly to the right, making the captain's foot stomp the mast instead.

Shadoi retracted his foot slowly, showing a small dent had been made in the mast, then drew his cutlass and touched the tip to Daiki's neck. "Maybe I should kill you now. It sure would save me a lot of trouble," the captain said through gritted teeth.

"Maybe you sh- what?" Daiki cut off mid-sentence. "Huh?" The captain turned his head to see what had caught his prisoner's attention.

There was a teen standing on the upper deck near the bow, wearing a straw hat and red shorts. The crew had also re-emerged from inside the ship's hull and was now spread out across the entire deck.

"Who are you?" the captain asked the mysterious figure as he turned and moved the sword away from Daiki's throat. 'whew' Daiki thought.

"Who are you?" Spade asked, pointing at Shadoi with brows furrowed, head tilted, and an eyebrow rose.

Shadoi raised his cutlass, and the Silver Cutlass Pirates followed suit with an array of cutlass', katanas, guns, and rifles with bayonets attached.

"Answer me first!" the captain ordered.

"You can't order me around!" Spade snapped back. "I'm going to bash your head in!"

"Seize him!" Shadoi yelled to his underlings, pointing his cutlass at Spade.

AAAAARRRRGGGGG! the crew yelled as they charged Spade.

"I'd like to see you try," the captain said to himself and smirked.

Spade jumped down to the main deck. He tucked in his head and threw his arms up into a parallel defensive position, where his fists were near his face and his forearms were protecting his upper-torso. "Chitan-Chitan..." Spade's arms turned a silvery grey-white metallic color up to past his shoulders, "SHIELD!" he yelled as he rushed straight for the crowd of pirates.

As Spade rushed through the crowd of pirates, and all their swords, bullets, and bayonets skidded off of his arms with a continuous shower of sparks. He ran over and toppled many pirates until he reached the captain, at which the silvery metallic color moved to only cover his fists, and he removed his right arm from its defensive position.

"Chitan-Chitan..." he began, and a look of utter shock and disbelief covered Shadoi's face, "BASH!" Spade yelled as hit the captain across the face with a powerful punch. An audible CRACK could be heard by all, and Shadoi was sent skidding across the deck and fell to the sea.

Shadoi's crew scrambled to the starboard (left) side to look for their captain, and found nothing. They all turned slowly back toward the now normal looking Spade, who seemed quite pleased with himself.

"Hey you," said a voice from beside Spade.

"Eh?" Spade turned to see the tied up man. "A Marine?"

"No. My name's Nakayama Daiki, and the pirate you just punched was 'Silver Cutlass' Shadoi," said Daiki, a little irked for being called a Marine.

Shadoi's crew whispered amongst themselves: "Oh no! The guy who just killed the captain is getting friendly with Daiki!" "We've got to stop this," said the man with the square earring. "Yeah!" another agreed. "Let's get him!" one yelled.

"Well Daiki, if I break those cuffs, will you join my crew?" Spade asked.

"Eheh, sure, but you won't be able to break them. They are made out of sea-stone," Daiki said nonchalantly.

"Oh, that's it?" Spade said as he took his flip-flop off and put it on his right hand. "It only works when in direct contact, right?"

"Hey! If you break those cuffs, we'll kill you and Daiki!" yelled the first mate.

Spade ignored him and made a fist in the flip-flop his hand was wearing, so that the material protected his knuckles and fingers. His hand and wrist turned to that silvery grey-white metallic color again, and he raised his arm and began saying "Chitan-Chitan..." The Silver Cutlass Pirates started running towards him with their weapons raised, but then Spade's hand swung down at the sea-stone cuffs and he yelled "BASH!" as he made contact, making the sea-stone cuffs shatter.

'Whoa! This guy is strong.' thought Daiki as he looked at his freed hands.

The Silver Cutlass Pirates froze where they were, sweating profusely, with silent tears of fear streaming down their faces and their jaws open. They stayed that way for a while longer until someone yelled, "RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" at which they all turned tail and jumped off the starboard side of the ship.

Spade looked at them as they jumped off the ship with a frown.

"What's wrong?" Daiki said from beside him.

"Well, I wanted to fight them," Spade said before turning back to Daiki, who was now standing next to Spade, facing toward the fleeing pirates with a passive face and his arms crossed. "When did you-?"

"Don't ask," Daiki said, cutting him off.

"No, I have to know. I'm your captain," Spade said with a smile.

'Oh, right...' Daiki thought, but stayed silent.

"Come on Daiki, you've got to tell me!" Spade insisted.

'I was planning on cutting the ropes, getting the key and escaping, but now this? Shit...' Daiki stayed silent and gave no clue as to what he was thinking.

"Okay, I didn't want to do this so soon, but you're captain orders you to-"

"I'll tell you," Daiki interrupted. "After we get away from this ship, but I'm not-"

"Great!" Spade shouted, pumping his arms into the air.

"I need to find my katanas first," Daiki said as Spade moved to the port side to see if his boat was still there. It was.

"Okay, I'll be waiting in the boat," Spade said, turning to Daiki and pointing down.

Daiki nodded his head, uncrossed his arms, and began walking toward the stern where the captain's room was. Once he was there, he easily found his two swords leaning against the wall. One had an un-decorated black scabbard, an oval guard, and a plain handle wrapped in black cloth; the other katana had a deep scarlet red scabbard decorated with three evenly spaced circles with sun bursts etched in gold, a guard in the shape of a flaming sun, and a handle wrapped in a darker red cloth with an small ornament held underneath the wrappings.

'I'm not going to be sailing with that guy,' Daiki thought as he secured his katanas and headed to the main deck to get onto a boat.

As Daiki stepped out onto the main deck, he noticed that Shadoi's crew was climbing back on from the starboard side.

'Fuck. I need to save Hikari now!' Daiki thought as he stayed in the shadows of the doorway. More and more men were climbing on. 'If I can quickly get to an escape boat, I should be fine.'

He analyzed the deck. The starboard life boats were out of the question, and more men were coming towards the stern (and him). The quickest escape route was much to Daiki's distaste, but if that was the quickest way to his sister, then he'd take it. 'I'll just ditch the straw hat kid once I get there.'

Daiki moved out onto the main deck and ran to the where Spade had been previously. As he neared the mainmast, he drew his red katana in defense as a crew member of the Silver Cutlass Pirates attacked him. More men noticed him and began drawing weapons as well.

"Where is the other guy?" the man who attacked Daiki demanded. He was the one wearing a golden square earring, the first mate.

"Like hell I'd tell you!" Daiki replied, who kept his defense up and leaned back, causing his opponent to lose balance and lean toward him. He then swiftly kicked the first mate in the stomach, sending him skidding across the deck until he was stopped by the foremast.

The crew paused for a second to see that their second in command was down, and then rushed at Daiki with force. However, before any of them were able to reach him, Daiki crouched low, drew his black katana in his left hand, and sprinted for the pirates. "Hurricane Dance," Daiki yelled as he weaved through his opponent's attacks, dodging swords, daggers, and bullets, while landing cuts and blows to those attacking him.

"UUAGH!" was what most of the crew were able to say before collapsing onto the deck.

Daiki stopped at the railings by where the kid and the boat were. He leaned over and yelled "KID! Untie the boat!" Spade made no move to respond. "HEY! I SAID UNTIE THE BOAT!" Spade just lay there with his hat covering his face, as if he was taking a nap. "THIS IS NO TIME TO- urgh," Daiki yelled, but was cut off when a pirate tried to attack him from behind, and Daiki had turned and raised his red katana in time to block.

"You're not going anywhere!" yelled Daiki's opponent. Daiki moved to let the pirate's sword slide off of his katana and into the railing, where it stuck. He then used the pommel of the katana in his right hand to hit his opponent in the stomach and send him to the ground.

'Why is he not responding?' Daiki thought in a panic. Another pirate staggered to Daiki and moved to stab him in the gut, but Daiki easily moved to the side and used the pommel of his black katana to hit the pirate's face and send him spinning to the floor.

'What else can I call him by?' Daiki questioned, and then realized something, and Daiki became visibly irritated. The pirate that just attacked him from above soon regretted it when Daiki's left hand moved faster than ever, and the pommel of his katana connected with the man's side, throwing him over the bow and into the sea, without Daiki even looking.

The pirates then halted in their onslaught, as they'd become more frightened by the fact that Daiki seemed to very agitated.

Daiki lifted his head and looked to the sky, took in a deep breath of air, and screamed, "YOU STUBBORN CAPTAIN! WHAT GAVE YOU THE IDEA TO TAKE A NAP?"

"To make sure you're ready to be in my crew," Spade said from behind Daiki. Daiki froze, a look of surprise covering his face, which then turned into a small smirk.

Spade hopped off the railing he was crouching on and flexed his left arm, placing his right hand on his left arm's bicep. "Now," he said with a smile on his face, "let's finish this!"

Yay~ I'm very happy with this chapter! *self-gratification* Positive Feedback is always welcome~

Captain: Illem D. Spade
First Mate: Nakayama Daiki, by Mikan22
Navigator: by Mikan22
Carpenter/Shipwright: mine
Sharpshooter: mine
Weapons/Fighting Expert: by Sytherin's Sempra
Doctor: mine
Musician: by Saisix
Chef: by Isshi Urahara
Historian/Archaeologist: mine

Shichibukai:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. mine
7. mine
8. mine
9. mine
10. shared, by Inhuman_X

Marines:
WG Commander-in-Chief: mine (not sure though)
Fleet Admiral: shared, by Inhuman_X
Admiral 1:
Admiral 2:
Admiral 3:
Vice Admiral 1: mine
Vice Admiral 2: mine
Vice Admiral 3:
Vice Admiral 4:
Vice Admiral 5:
Captain 1:
Captain 2:

The links to these very awesome people who gave me and OC/are sharing an OC with me are in my profile under A/N for One Piece: The Next Generation.

Every position that's blank is an opening that hasn't been filled. Please feel free to submit an OC if you've got an idea, because I'd love to hear them! There's a very high chance I'll use them.

*the order these characters appear in is not the order in which they will appear in the story.*