Another Nakama

Disclaimer: The following is a fan made work of fiction. One Piece is owned by Funimation, Toei Animation, Fuji TV, Shueisha, Shonnan Jump Manga, and Eiichiro Oda. I do not own One Piece or any of its characters, I'm writing this story for my own amusement.

Dog

-x-

"LISTEN UP CREW!" Buggy shouted to his men. Luffy, Ricky, Zoro, and Nami had escaped and he was still pissed off, "WE'VE FLASHILY STOLEN TONS OF TREASURE AND OUR NAME BRINGS FLASHY TERROR TO ALL WHO HEAR IT! SO ARE WE GOING TO LET FOUR LOSERS MAKE FOOLS OUT OF US?"

"No sir!" Buggy's men chanted.

"I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" Buggy roared.

"NO SIR!" Buggys men shouted.

"ALRIGHT, PIPE DOWN!" Buggy snapped. This wasn't funny to Buggy and he decided that he wanted to end this quickly. He was going to start off with the big guns, "It's time to show our enemies how terrifying we can be! Bring out the Wild Animal Show!"

"Captain Buggy… you called?" came a voice.

"IT'S BEAST TAMER MOHJI!" the Buggy Pirates exclaimed.

A man wearing blue pants and a fuzzy white costume with ears on his head that made him look like a bear came forward. But what was intimidating about him was the giant lion that he was riding on. The lion was about half the size of a building and had a big purple mane. This was 'Beast Tamer' Mohji, Buggy the Clown's First Mate, and Richie his enormous pet lion.

"I will bring you Roronoa Zoro's head," Mohji vowed.

"Bring me any parts you want," Buggy replied with a sadistic smile on his painted face.

-x-

"We should be far enough away by now," Zoro announced as he and Luffy walked down the street through the deserted town. Zoro was attempting to recover from the knife wound he'd gotten from Buggy and Luffy was walking along beside him dragging the cage that Ricky was trapped in. "I don't think Buggy and his pirates will be able to catch up to us any time soon."

"We got away for now," Ricky reasoned as he calmly sat inside the cage, "But we need to get me out of this thing."

THUD! Zoro suddenly collapsed to the ground, "It's no use…" Zoro panted as he lay bleeding in the middle of the street, "I've lost too much blood… I've got to rest…"

"Not the best place to take a break, but whatever," said Ricky laid on his back and stared up at the clouds.

Luffy pulled himself up and sat on top of the cage, but due to his short attention span, his eyes wandered and he noticed something. "Hey, a dog!" Luffy exclaimed.

Zoro moved so he was sitting back against a street light, while Luffy hopped off of the cage and crouched down in front of a small white dog that was sitting on the curb in front of a pet food store.

"Is it real?" wondered Luffy as he poked it, POKE! "It's not moving."

"It's his business if he moves or not," Zoro answered as he sat back against a pole, "our business is to get you out of there."

"Leave the dog alone," Ricky advised while still staring up at the sky. "It looks like its acting as a guard for that store."

"You're not even looking at it," Luffy replied as he continued poking the dog, POKE! "Maybe it's dead." POKE!

"GRRAAAHH!" CHOMP! It turned out that the dog was very much alive, and it didn't like to be poked. The dog lunged at Luffy and bit his face in retaliation.

"DUMB DOG! LEMME GO!" Luffy hollered as he tried to shake the dog off of him, but the tiny mutt had a firm hold.

"Told you," Ricky muttered without even sitting up.

"LUFFY, STOP PLAYING AROUND!" Zoro shouted.

THUD! "Dumb dog," Luffy muttered as he fell on his back once the dog let go of him.

THUD! "Lost… too much blood," Zoro mumbled as he slid off of the pole and laid on his back.

"Look at you three," Nami commented as she came across the interesting sight. Here were three pirates that were on the run from Buggy the Clown, but instead of running and hiding like anyone normal would have, all three of them were lying on their back in the middle of the street. "Not to criticize... but is the middle of the street really the best hiding place you could come up with?"

"I didn't have much choice in the matter," Ricky pointed out from inside the cage. He sat up and leaned back against the bars of the cage so he could see Nami.

"Oh, hey it's our new Navigator," said Luffy when he saw who Ricky was talking to.

"I never agreed to that!" Nami snapped. Nami took a breath and calmed down, "Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for saving me."

KLING! Nami tossed a key on the ground. "THE KEY!" Luffy exclaimed, "YOU STOLE THE KEY TO THE CAGE!"

"Which one of you is stuck in that cage again?" asked Zoro as he eyed Ricky who was still as calm and relaxed as ever.

"Yeah I stole the key," Nami replied with a sigh, "But since you saved me earlier, this makes us even. I don't owe you pirates anything now."

"THIS IS GREAT!" Luffy cheered, "I THOUGHT WE'D NEVER GET HIM OUT OF THERE!"

"I guess the rescue was a success after all," Zoro commented as he slowly sat up. But then, to the surprise of everyone watching, the dog took the key and ate it. GULP!

"STUPID CRAZY DOG!" Luffy shouted, he grabbed the tiny dog and started shaking it, hoping it would cough up the key, "COUGH IT UP! THAT'S NOT FOOD! GIMME THAT KEY!"

"Great," Ricky muttered as he rolled his eye. Now he'd have to find another way to get out of the cage… he had one, but he didn't want to use it.

"Hey you kids!" came the shout from an old man, "Leave Chou-Chou alone!"

"Chou-Chou?" Luffy repeated, as the dog once again mauled his face.

"Who are you old timer?" asked Zoro as he looked up at the old man. The man was had funny grey hair that made him look like a Poodle and was wearing old-looking armor with a spear strapped to the back.

"Who am I?" asked the old man, who was called Boodle. "I'm the Mayor of this town! That's who!"

-x-

Mayor Boodle, Luffy and Nami had gone off and taken Zoro somewhere, but seeing how Ricky was stuck in the cage they left him where he was. When they came back Luffy reclaimed his spot on top of the cage and stared down at the dog that had eaten the key to the cage.

"Where'd you take Zoro?" asked Ricky, sounding only mildly concerned while he attempted to pick the lock on the cage with the tip of his red sword.

"He's resting at my house," answered the Mayor, "That boy had lost a lot of blood. I told him there was a doctor at the refugee shelter, but he said he just needed some sleep."

"So the dog's name is Chou-Chou?" questioned Nami. "Why is he the only one left in town?"

"He's guarding the shop. I just came to feed him."

"Oh, so he's a guard dog," Nami reasoned. "For a pet food store…"

"A good friend of mine owned this store. He and Chou-Chou opened it years ago. They've got a lot of memories here, and so do I."

"See those wounds?" asked the Mayor as he pointed to some scars on Chou-Chou. "He's been fighting the pirates, protecting his store."

"This store might be important," said Nami, "But Chou-Chou shouldn't be risking his life for it. Isn't the owner at the refugee shelter with everyone else?"

"No he's not," the Mayor answered solemnly, "He got sick and passed on. He went to the hospital three months ago."

"Poor thing," Nami commented, "You mean he's been sitting here waiting for his master the whole time?"

"That's what everybody says," said the Mayor, "But that's not what I think. Chou-Chou is a smart dog, I think he knows his master is dead."

"Then why does he still guard the store?" asked Nami.

"It's his treasure," Ricky said simply as he continued to unsuccessfully pick the lock.

"Exactly," the mayor agreed. "This is his master's store. I think that Chou-Chou still guards the store because it's all he has left of his beloved master. I've been trying to get him to the shelter, but he won't budge from this spot. He'd rather starve to death than leave his post."

"CAN'T YOU SEE THAT'S NOT WORKING!" Nami yelled at Ricky, who through the entire story was still trying to pick the lock.

Ricky cut his arm and put his sword away, "If you were trapped in this cage you'd try anything too. I don't have my lock picks on me, so I'm trapped in here. We're lucky that no one's come after us yet."

RAWWWWRRR! A loud roar rang out causing all of them to jump with the exception of Ricky. "I guess I spoke too soon," Ricky commented.

"What the hell was that?" asked Nami in a panic.

"It must be 'Beast Tamer' Mohji!" the Mayor answered. He and Nami quickly ran off down the road.

"Beast Tamer?" Ricky repeated, as Luffy, who had been silently staring at the dog all this time got off of the cage and stood next to it. Ricky and Luffy found themselves face-to-face with a giant lion. "Oh…"

"Well what have we here?" questioned Mohji, "I'm Mohji, Buggy's First Mate. They call me the Beast Tamer. Ha ha, looks like your friends abandoned you… after all that effort to get you this far. Captain Buggy's really upset, you two are in big trouble now."

"GRRRRRR!" the giant loin growled.

"That's a big lion," Ricky throught to himself, "Maybe it's strong enough to rip through an iron cage. We'll have to provoke him." Ricky turned to Luffy, "Hm… he looks rather eccentric."

Luffy and Ricky stared at each other the former struggling not to laugh while the latter shook his head at Mohji's strange appearance. "What's with the weird costume?" Luffy finally asked.

"COSTUME! THIS IS MY HAIR!" Mohji yelled at him.

"That just makes it weirder," Ricky said to Luffy in a 'stage whisper' which was loud enough for Mohji to hear.

-x-

"Are they purposely provoking him?" Nami wondered as she and Mayor Boodle his around the corner.

"Those idiots," the Mayor muttered.

-x-

"I'LL TEACH YOU A LESSON YOU LITTLE WISE-ASS!" Mohji roared. "I bet you think you're safe in that cage. Well clearly he doesn't know who I am. There's not an animal alive that I can't control. I can even control that mutt."

Mohji jumped down off of his lion and walked up to Chou-Chou, "Shake," Mohji instructed as he reached out his hand, CHOMP! Chou-Chou didn't want to shake and instead lunged forward and bit Mohji's arm.

"AAAAHH!" Mohji hollered in pain and indignation as he tried to shake the dog off of him.

"HAHAHAHA!" Luffy laughed loudly as Mohji struggled to get the angry dog off of him. Ricky smiled and seemed mildly amused. Mohji eventually go the dog off of him and then climbed back up onto the top of his huge lion where it was safe.

"STOP LAUGHING!" Mohji scolded the rubber pirate. He was used to being TERRIFYING! Not FUNNY!

"Hahaha! That dog got you," Luffy laughed.

"You're just an accomplice of a one-eyed nobody thief!" Mohji said to Luffy.

"Ricky… you're a thief?" questioned Luffy. "What'd you steal this time?"

"I didn't take anything," Ricky insisted. "But for the record, weird-Lion-guy, my accomplice here is actually my Captain."

Mohji stared at Luffy who was having a staring contest with the lion and sweat-dropped. "You're joking… right?"

"I don't joke," Ricky stated.

"You two mean nothing to me, so I'll give you one chance, tell me, where is Roronoa Zoro?"

"NO!" Luffy refused. Zoro was still resting from his wounds, he wasn't about to sell out his Nakama. Especially not to some weird guy on a lion.

"THEN DIE!" Mohji hollered, "GET HIM RICHIE!"

"RAAWWWR!" The lion roared and lunged forward but Luffy moved out of the way. Ricky was stuck in the cage and became the focus of the lion's attack. CHOMP! KER-RAK! The lion reached down and ripped apart the cage with its massive jaws and claws.

"Hmph," Ricky grunted as he leapt out of the cage and onto the giant lion's snout.

-x-

"IT BIT THROUGH A STEEL CAGE!" Nami exclaimed from around the corner.

"Those boys are goners," said the Mayor.

-x-

"RAAAAWWWWRRRR!" Richie the lion roared as he struggled to get the one-eyed pirate off of his snout.

"WOW! RICKY! THAT'S SOOO COOL!" Luffy cheered as he watched his brother on the lion with stars in his eyes.

KER-FWHAM! The giant lion blindly swatted the cage, sending it crashing into Luffy, causing him to go flying. The cage was hit so hard it smashed Luffy THROUGH a house, which crumbled down to the ground after Luffy and the cage went through it. KRASH!

"Nobody could have survived that," said Mohji, "Now there's just one left." Mohji glared at the pirate on his lion's snout.

"Now we just need to stall long enough for Zoro to recover," Ricky thought to himself, as he held onto the lion's nose. "Once he's ready, we'll go after Buggy and recruit Nami."

"RICHIE KILL HIM!" Mohji ordered.

FWIP! The lion snapped its head up, launching Ricky off of it and up into the air, then it raised his mighty paw and swatted Ricky in midair, FWHAM! KRASH! Ricky was sent flying and smashed through the wall on the third floor of a nearby house.

"There," Mohji resolved as he climbed back onto the lion. "Now let's go find Zoro."

But the lion suddenly stopped when it noticed the pet food store nearby. "What is it?" asked Mohji, who looked up and saw the store, "Alright have a snack. But be quick about it."

"GRRRRRR!" Chou-Chou didn't like this one bit.

-x-

"Wow! What an impact!" Luffy exclaimed as he slowly got up to his feet and stared at the wrecked house he had been smashed through. "He knocked me through that house and into the street behind it! But at least Ricky's out of that cage, now we can show these clowns and make that thief our Navigator."

-x-

Treasure

-x-

"HEY!" came a loud shout, "Hey kid! You're alive! How could you survive that?" It was the Mayor and Nami.

"No big deal," Luffy answered as if it were nothing to get smashed through a house.

"But how!" Nami demanded as she pointed to the house which was now a pile of rubble. Luffy had survived the crashing through the building, but the building hadn't survived Luffy. "Your body demolishes a building, and you walk away from it without a scratch! That's crazy!"

"Crazy is good," Luffy replied. "Where's Ricky?"

"You mean the kid with one eye? He was sent flying by the lion too," the Mayor answered. "Why did all of you come to this town anyway? Why take on pirates?"

"Ricky originally figured it out. We're after the chart to the Grand Line and a Navigator!"

-x-

Meanwhile back at the pet store, Chou-Chou standing in front of the lion and barking like crazy. RUFF! RUFF! RUFF!

"What's with this dog?" Mohji wondered. "Does he think he can prevent us from entering this store? You little mutt… don't tell me you're guarding this crummy shop!"

"WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!" Chou-Chou barked angrily.

SWAT! The lion raised its paw and swatted Chou-Chou away, knocking him into a wall and opening up a cut on the little dog's face. But Chou-Chou got back up then rushed at the lion and bit down on one of its legs. But the lion took its paw and smashed it into a wall, crushing the little dog against the stone in the wall. THUMP!

"Stupid lion," Ricky muttered as he walked out through the front door of the house he had been knocked into. He glanced above him and noticed the hole in the wall of the third floor that he had been knocked through. He had to go down two flights of stairs to get out of there.

But then Ricky noticed the bloody dog fighting back up to continue fighting the lion. Apparently, it didn't care if the lion was over twenty times his size, this store was his treasure and as long as he was still breathing, he'd fight for it.

Chou-Chou started barking at the lion again. RUFF! RUFF! "Alright, shut up that mutt once and for all!" Mohji ordered the lion.

The lion prowled forward but Chou-Chou leapt at it and bit its leg again. This time the lion shot its leg up, sending Chou-Chou flying up into the air, then the lion swatted the dog as he came falling downward, driving him even faster into the street. WHAM! "NOW FINISH HIM!" Mohji roared.

The giant lion opened its jaws wide and bent down to eat the little dog. But suddenly Chou-Chou was pushed out of the way and the lion's jaws closed around something else. The lion lifted its head in confusion, "You missed the dog!" Mohji scolded his lion. "What's going on here?"

"Stupid lion should watch what it tries to eat," a very wet Ricky said to himself while in the lion's mouth. He quickly drew his sword.

ROOAWWWWRRR! The lion let out a loud roar of pain, and spat out Ricky, PTOOOIII! KRASH! The wet and bloody pirate went flying and crashed through a nearby window.

"I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!" Mohji shouted. "LET'S TAKE CARE OF THE STORE!"

-x-

"I've got to go find Zoro," said Luffy. "That freak on the lion is looking for him."

"ARE YOU CRAZY!" the Mayor yelled, "THAT LION WILL RIP YOU APART!"

-x-

"That stupid dog bit me," Mohji muttered as he looked over the bite mark on his arm. He and the lion were now going off to find Zoro. Richie had a box of dog food in his moiuth that they'd retrieved from the store once the dog was taken care of. "I'm bleeding! That dog stupid dog actually thought it could fight me."

-x-

"WOOF! WOOF! ARROOOOO!" Luffy walked back over to the pet store, only to find that it was on fire. Chou-Chou, was covered in gashes from his fight with the lion was barking loudly at the flames as it watched the store burn before its eyes. Sitting next to the dog was Ricky, who was covered in blood and drool. He was staring intently at the flames too. "AROOOOOO!"

Luffy walked up and Ricky spoke to him without even looking to see who it was. "This store was the dog's treasure. It risked its life to defend it and fought with everything it had." Ricky slowly stood up. "Luffy, he's mine."

"Good luck," said Luffy.

Ricky crouched down next to the dog and patted its head. The dog tore its gaze from the burning store and fixed it on the one-eyed pirate next to him. "You fought well. Now it's my turn."

"WOOF RUFF!"

"Thanks," Rickyreplied as he stood back up. Chou-Chou turned back to the burning pet food store and resumed barking at it while Ricky walked off to find the lion. Luffy watched his First Mate walk off and almost felt sorry for the lion-tamer. Almost.

-x-

Mohji rode his lion down the middle of street when a figure came out from in between two houses and stood in the middle of the street, as if he was blocking Mohji's path. It was the one-eyed pirate from before, he was covered in drool and blood, but he looked pissed.

"YOU!" Mohji exclaimed. "I THOUGHT I KILLED YOU!"

"It'll take more than a lion to kill me," Ricky informed him as he stared the lion dead in the eye. The boy was only 6 feet tall, Richie the lion was over five times his size. But when the lion saw the look of anger burning in the expressionless pirate's eye it grew slightly nervous, after all this one-eyed human was the reason his tongue was in so much pain. "I'm here to avenge the one you've wronged."

"HAHAHA!" Mohji laughed. "You think just because you got lucky that you can beat me?"

"Let me make sure you understand this," said Ricky. "You can attack me, and you can laugh at me and my dreams. I'll just ignore it. But you crossed the line… you burned down the store that dog was protecting with its life. One thing I'll never forgive is someone who destroys someone else's treasure."

"Hahaha!" Mohji laughed. "You came here to avenge that stupid mutt! You're a fool! I'm Buggy the Clown's First Mate, a brat like you could never beat me! GET HIM RICHIE!" Mohji jumped off of the side of the lion's head to get out of the way.

Richie dropped the box of pet food and then let out a loud roar as he lunged forward looking to pounce on Ricky and tear him apart. "RAWWWWRRRRR!" SKISH! But Ricky jumped up into the air and over the lion's head causing the lion to miss him, and let out a quieter roar of surprise. "Rawr?"

"Bludgeon… STOMP!" WHOMP! Ricky came down and drove his feet into the top of the lion's head. THUD! The force of the steel-soled boots being driven into the top of its head cause the giant lion to plant head-first into the ground. Richie the lion was knocked out cold with one attack.

"Now it's just you and me," Ricky stated as he stood on theunconscious lion's head and turned his attention to Mohji.

"Im-impossible!" Mohji stuttered in shock and disbelief.

"What? Can't fight someone without a giant lion?" Ricky taunted as he reached to the side and drew Akaikyuuketsuki. Ricky held the red blade in front of him with both hands as he turned to face Mohji.

"I'm sorry!" a terrified Mohji quickly apologized. He quickly started backing away from the one-eyed pirate.

"I'm not the one you should be apologizing to. Red Blade… LIGHTNING STRIKE!" Ricky lunged off of the lion's head and flew at Mohji faster than the lion-tamer with all of his quick reflexes could even react. SLISH! Ricky landed on his feet behind Mohji and glanced at the blood on his sword as it was slowly absorbed into the red blade. Mohji stood still for a moment in complete shock, PLURT! Blood exploded out from the wound Ricky had made on his chest and he fell to the ground. FWUMP!

Ricky put his sword away then turned and walked over to Mohji and placed his foot on Mohji's throat. As Ricky started applying pressure the lion-tamer started coughing and wheezing. KOFF! KOFF! ACK!

"You're lucky I have morals," Ricky told Mohji as he glared down at him. "Right now, nothing would please me more than to kill you. But I won't."

"Th-thank—ACK!" KOFF! KOFF!! Ricky cut the lion-tamer off by pressing his foot harder into the man's throat.

"If I killed you, you wouldn't be able to apologize for what you've done."

Ricky removed his foot from Mohji's throat, prompting the lion-tamer to start wheezing and panting to catch his breath. Ricky reached down and grabbed one of the ears that Mohji had made his hair. "You're coming with me." Ricky dragged Mohji over to the box of dog food and picked it up, then dragged the defeated Beast Tamer back towards the pet store, leaving the giant lion lying unconscious in the middle of the street.

-x-

"Pirates," said Nami as she and Mayor Boodle walked up to the remains of the pet shop. The fire had been extinguished and Luffy and Chou-Chou were sitting in front of it staring at what was left. "They're all the same. They take away what's most precious and laugh!"

"Huh?" questioned Luffy, who hadn't been listening to what Nami had been saying.

"Where's that friend of yours?" asked Nami as she glared at Luffy.

"Ricky? He's fighting the lion," Luffy answered.

"YOU LEFT YOUR FRIEND IN THAT CAGE TO DIE?" Nami snapped. "I SHOULD KILL YOU RIGHT NOW!" Nami made to rush at Luffy, but the mayor held her back.

"Calm down," Boodle instructed her.

"You can't kill me," Luffy informed Nami.

"OH YEAH! WELL I'LL GIVE IT A DAMN GOOD TRY!" Luffy ignored her and continued to sit next to the dog and stare at the remains of the store.

"Calm down… both of you!" the mayor scolded them, although, Luffy seemed to be perfectly calm, it was Nami who was causing the problem here.

"Come on… it… it was just a stupid pet store!" came an unwelcome voice. Luffy, Nami, Boodle, and Chou-Chou all turned to see Ricky walking over dragging Mohji along with him by one of the bear ears in his hair. He had a box of dog food in his other hand.

"Grrrr…" Chou-Chou growled as the one-eyed pirate dragged over the man responsible for the current condition of his store.

THUD! Ricky threw Mohji down to the ground in front of Chou-Chou. "Apologize."

"Y-you can't be serious! It's just a stupid dog!"

WHAM! Ricky lifted his leg and drove the steel bottom of his boot down into Mohji's spine. "Apologize!"

"I'm ssssorrrrry!" Mohji struggled to get the words out as he glared at the dog.

"Grrrr…" Chou-Chou growled.

WHAM! Ricky lifted his leg and drove his foot down into Mohji's spine a second time. "You can do better than that."

"I'm sorry I burned down your store…" Mohji apologized as he continued glaring at the dog. He was furious at what he had been reduced to.

WHAM! Ricky drove his boot down into Mohji's spine a third time, but this time he kept it here and applied more pressure. "Try again. I'm not opposed to crippling you."

"I'M SORRY!" the Beast Tamer screamed in pain. "I'M SORRY I BURNED DOWN YOUR STORE! I BEG YOUR FORGIVENESS!"

"Better," Ricky commented as he removed his foot from Mohji's back and glanced at Chou-Chou.

"Arf!" barked Chou-Chou, before it turned back to the remains of the store.

"Nothing can undo what you did," said Ricky. "I suggest you get out of here, the next time I see you… I won't be so restrained."

"YES SIR!" Mohji shrieked as he shot to his feet and started to stagger off.

"Hey fuzz-brain," Ricky called out after him.

"Huh?" questioned Mohji as he turned around.

"Javelin… KICK!" CRUNCH! In less than a second Ricky shot out his foot and drove it hard into Mohji's jaw, WHAM! The lion-tamer went flying and slammed into the wall of a house,before dropping to the ground unconscious. THUD!

Ricky looked down and saw one of Mohji's teeth lying on the ground next to his foot, he turned and glanced at Chou-Chou who was wagging his tail, "That was for you," Ricky told Chou-Chou, "and this is too..." Ricky placed the box of dog food down in front of Chou-Chou. "It's the only bit that wasn't burned or eaten."

Luffy patted the dog on the back. "Good job Ricky."

Nami stared at the two pirates and the dog in shock, "He fought the lion for the dog's sake," Nami realized.

"You did well," Luffy told the dog. "I didn't get to see you fight, but Ricky says you did a great job."

Chou-Chou took the box of dog food in his mouth and started walking off, but it stopped walking and put the food down, then turned and barked at the pirates. "ARF! WOOF! RUFF!" barked Chou-Chou.

"You're welcome," Ricky replied. "Good luck to you too."

"Bye!" Luffy called out as the dog picked up the box of dog off and walked off.

-x-

"MOHJI WAS DEFEATED?" Buggy the Clown shouted in surprise when one of his scouts reported back to him at the Drinker's Pub.

"Um… yes Captain," answered the nervous scout that had reported what he had seen to the Captain.

"READY MY SPECIAL BUGGY BALLS!" Buggy ordered, "PLAY TIME IS OVER! WE'RE GONNA FLASHILY LIGHT UP THIS TOWN 'TILL THERE'S NOTHING LEFT!"

-x-

Mohji made the mistake of getting on Ricky's bad side, and he paid for it. Never destroy someone's treasure in front of 'One Eye' Ricky, Treasure Hunter Extraordinaire. Next chapter Mayor Boodle is going to get a little reckless.

'Till Next Time…

Peace!