I was only expecting to be gone on Wednesday, not...Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and the majority of Sunday...I keep apologizing about this but after saying it so many times for every flippin' chapter, I no longer feel that it sounds as sincere as it really is...Oh, I'm getting sad...Time to cheer myself up with more Kpop.
I ended up combining Carroll's ninth and tenth chapters because those chapters were all about meeting a Mock Turtle and lots of singing and dancing and there were several options that I could have done with it, but I decided this would suffice. Completely unlike the original chapters, but I did try to incorporate the lessons bit only because...I felt that they were funny lol Carroll is a...funny man.
Alice in Wonderland belongs to Lewis Carroll and One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda. I am only responsible for adding the two together and getting a...triple integral.
It wasn't long before the group of billions returned with an extra member. The extra member stopped when he saw Luffy.
"Luffy-kun? What are you doing here?"
"Heyyy, Jinbei! How are you?" Luffy greeted him with a giant smile. "So you're the one Hancock thinks is giant, fat, and ugly! Hahaha!"
Jinbei was a little tempted to whip out some fishman karate on Luffy but decided to be a bit more polite. "Much better, now that I'm out of the dungeon. But Luffy-kun, this place is dangerous. You should get away from here as soon as possible."
"Hah? Why? I just got here."
"The queen is extremely violent. She'll have your head chopped off if you so much as look at her the wrong way."
"Yeah, I kind of noticed that."
"Yes, and she can behave like a rather spoiled child at times when things do not go –wait, you met her already?"
"Yeah, she's right there," Luffy pointed directly behind Jinbei.
Queens are typically depicted as a woman with a serene, gentle face. Hancock looked like neither of those two adjectives at the moment, as her face was horribly contorted with rage. "JIIIIINNNNNNNNNBEI," she snarled, "How dare you take up Luffy's time? I have to send him to see the wail!"
Jinbei, despite being a rather fearsome fishman, swallowed visibly. He patted Luffy's shoulder and walked off in the opposite direction of Hancock. "Be careful, Luffy-kun."
The minute he turned away, Hancock blushed as she faced Luffy. Well, her body faced him, but her head was turned away, too shy to look him in the eyes. "Luffy, have you seen the wail yet?"
Luffy paused for a moment. He was sure that she wasn't using the right word but decided that she should know what she was saying. "No. What is it?"
She motioned for him to follow. "You'll have to travel with Pell's help."
As Luffy and Hancock walked away from the game, Luffy could hear Crocodile grumbling about the amount of people awaiting execution. "At this rate, there won't be any billions to serve as workers. You are all pardoned," Crocodile said.
They soon made it to another clearing where Pell was meditating. "Take Luffy to see the wail," she commanded the warrior.
"Very well. Come on, Luffy, hop on, " Pell said and instantly transformed into a large falcon. They soared for a brief moment before landing at a beach where near the shore was a little baby whale happily singing to himself.
"Puo, puo!" he greeted the two newcomers.
"This is Laboon, the wail," Pell introduced the sea creature to Luffy.
At this point, Luffy became very confused. First Hancock, and now Pell? "Wail?"
"Ah, yes, you see," Pell explained, "Laboon has a habit of wailing when he's sad. He has a very sad history, you know. A group of pirates had befriended him but had to leave him behind and oh—Let's let Laboon tell the story for us, hm?"
And so the little whale wailed and wailed and by the time he finished, Pell was in tears. Luffy did not understand a word of it, assuming "puo" and "puuuoooooo" were words.
"What a strong little wail, eh?" Pell sniffed.
Judging by the little guy's lung capacity to wail for so long without taking a breath, Luffy couldn't really disagree. "Yeah," he said.
"He's very smart, too," Pell continued, "Very educated. To pass the time, he took lessons in everything; Reeling and Writhing and all sorts of Arithmetic like Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
Luffy couldn't help but wonder just how much use those subjects were in the world, but Pell kept talking and interrupted his thoughts. "It wasn't all left-brained materials, mind you. He even had lessons in Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils. And to top it all off, he knows Laughing and Grief."
"How did he have time for any fun if he had all these lessons?" Luffy was amazed at how much education a whale could handle.
Pell waved his hand in a manner to suggest it wasn't an impossible feat. "He took lessons, so they lessened every day, of course."
The whale, being thoroughly embarrassed at all the praise, nudged Luffy. "Pu puo?" he chirped.
"He wants to know about your day," Pell translated.
"Mine?" Luffy straightened up. "It's been a really weird day!" And Luffy began to tell his tale of everything that had happened, to when he first got off the ship and to the croquet game with Hancock but mainly, how frustrating it was to be separated from his nakama over and over again. The further he had gotten along his story, the farther his audience's jaws dropped. By the time he had finished, both mouths were opened so wide that their mandibles threatened to dislocate from their skulls.
"Luffy, I had no idea," Pell finally managed to say.
"Puo…" Laboon agreed.
"Ah! Here, Laboon will sing a song to cheer you up!" Pell raised his hand like an orchestra conductor and cued Laboon to start singing. And it was good singing. Pell and Luffy sat down and closed their eyes to enjoy it better as it filled their ears.
"The trial is beginning!" a voice cried out from far away.
Pell stood up. "We got to go Luffy! The trial's beginning!" And with that, he grabbed Luffy and began pulling him away from the beach, where Laboon waved goodbye with his big, round snout.
"What trial?" Luffy asked Pell.
"The trial! Come on, hurry up!" Pell insisted.
There were a lot of singing and dancing in these two chapters and I had really wanted to include Brook in here, but I needed him for later...There was a Gryphon and I decided Pell would fit nicely. That's about all the thought I really put into his role...I really wanted Laboon only because baby Laboon is so cute~
Also, in case anyone was wondering:
Reeling and Writhing=Reading and Writing
Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision=Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division
Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils=Drawing, Sketching, and Painting in Oils (my best guess)
Laughing and Grief=Latin and Greek (my favorite one of the bunch lol)
Oh, Carroll. So funny.
So what happened to the croquet game? Well, after Hancock led Luffy away, everybody abandoned ship and ran off to hide somewhere, especially those who were awaiting execution (which was like 90% of the people present). When Hancock returned, she didn't even realize that everybody ran away because she went to the kitchen to bake tarts so that she could personally deliver (and feed) it to Luffy when he returns. However, trouble soon struck...
I got two more chapters to write and one week left before my break is over...I can do this! Thanks for reading, everybody!
