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Sanji's Cupcakes
Chapter Ten – "It's Ho Time."
Last time on Sanji's Cupcakes!
Both the Gangster and Straw Hat crews journeyed to Penguin Island, to the Caffeine Village.
Together, they celebrated Christmas.
Ahhh, fluff.
Ler-hah sighed, looking back out to sea where the small snow-covered island was disappearing on the horizon. "I'm gonna miss that place…"
Sar-hah nodded in agreement. She had been busy finishing up eating the cake that Sanji had made her for Christmas. Both girls were wearing their pirate hats from Luffy, and Lera was busy drinking a bottle of Mountain Dew already. The girls had also been lucky enough to be given their own room to share, and the rest of their presents were there, along with their book bags. "Yeah, it was fun."
The two girls grinned, looking over to where Zoro was sitting in the Crow's Nest and Sanji standing up on the second floor of the ship, in front of the Tangerine trees.
"Vroom vroom…"
Village Leader Andyroo wandered into the home where both crews were breakfasting. "Hey, guys…"
The Straw Hat crew looked up from where they had been watching Sarah and Lera had been trying to toast a marshmallow using Sanji's cigarette. The Gangster Crew was distracted from where they had all been sitting, watching Marshmallow Kyle go around on a spit over the fireplace.
"Leader Andyroo, what are you doing here?" Nami asked from her armchair.
"Oh, just to check that none of you are wearing pants…" He looked slightly confused. "Which all of you failed to do…"
"Well, we still wuv you, Andyroo!" Sarah and Lera chorused, grinning innocently.
"But… but…"
"WILL SOMEONE GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" Screamed Joshu out of his cage in the corner of the room.
"And who're they?" Andyroo pointed at the Gangster Crew, frowning.
"Er… friends."
Emily-ly quickly stood. "Er, we really should be going, anyway… see you later, yo!" With a meaningful look at the rest of her crew, they all said their hurried good-bye's and rushed off, dragging the two caged crew members along as well.
Garske wobbled into the house. "I believe those were intruders…"
Sarah squealed. "KAWAIII!"
"AHH!" The talking penguin hid behind Andyroo's leg, shaking in fear.
Luffy yawned widely, stretching as he stood. "We should probably get going, too, y'know! We have to get to the next island!"
The Navigator of the ship nodded in agreement. "Luffy's right. Let's go."
"Aw, already…?" Ler-hah pouted, munching on the last of the cupcakes Sanji had given her as a gift.
Zoro, who had been sitting next to her, shrugged. "There's not much else to do here…"
The temporary medical witch of the ship, Tracey, wandered down the stairs from the second floor, yawning. "What the hell? Why didn't anyone wake me up?" She looked around in an accusing manner at all of the inhabitants of the room, and then noticed that no one had seen her enter. "Oh… whatever."
"But I don't want to go!" Sarah protested.
"We really should get going, Sarah-san…"
"But Sanji-kun…"
After ten minutes of confusion, the Straw Hat Crew had packed up their belongings and stood out in the snow-covered street outside of their brief home. Nami grinned at Andyroo. "Thanks for letting us stay here, but we should get going."
"We had tons of fun, though!" Luffy smiled brightly, holding his hat to his head.
"And we'll be sure to come back someday." Lera added, beaming.
"DAMN STRAIGHT!" Sarah nodded firmly.
"Oh… ok… toodles."
And with that, the Straw Hat crew turned around and started their journey back to the Going Merry, Lera and Sarah bursting into song, as usual. This time, is was Hellogoodbye's "Bonnie Taylor Shakedown 2k4."
"Visit you at Baskin-Robbins all the time
To let know that I am yours and you are mine
So we can take long walks through central park
And hold each others hands to fight the dark"
As Andyroo stood there, blinking, he heard a choking noise below him. It was Garske. "GASP! NO! MY PENGUIN OF PENGUINY GOODNESS!"
"So you know that you're never on your own.
So you know that you're never on your own!"
Andyroo fell to his knees, holding Garske up gently. "Speak to me!"
"My Bonnie lies over the ocean.
My Bonnie lies over the sea.
And every night at 2 am,
I wonder why …can't she … lie close … to me."
"I… Andyroo…" The penguin gasped out.
Remember all the times you let me walk you to class?
You would kiss my cheek, I'd never have to ask.
You're going away-ay in late September
But here's a thanks for a summer I will always remember."
Tears came to the leader's eyes. "Yes?"
"So you know that you're never on your own.
So you know that you're never on your own!"
"Your…."
"My Bonnie lies over the ocean…"
"Yes? My what?"
"My Bonnie lies over the sea…"
"Your… toaster…"
"And every night at 2 am…"
"WHAT!"
"I wonder why …can't she … lie close … to me."
And so ended the saga of Andyroo and Penguin Island.
"Yeah, good times…"
"… I'm hungry."
"Dude, what the crap, you just had two bottles of Dew!"
"… so?"
The two girls now sat in their room, staring out through the port-holes to watch Penguin Island disappear on the horizon.
Sarah suddenly stood in the middle of the room. "SANJI-KUN! I'M NAKEEEEDDD!"
"SARAH-SAN?" Sanji burst into the room, his eyes wide.
"Under my clothes!" Sarah added, with a laugh. Then…
"Sonic-boom!" She darted past Sanji and disappeared, leaving the love cook to stare blankly into the room with a confused expression.
Ler-hah stood as well. "DUDE! SONIC BOOM POO!" And she disappeared too. 'Cause that rhymes.
The two girls met up on deck again. Luffy was sitting on the sheep's head of the ship, his favorite spot. Zoro was on the second floor, lifting weights, and Usopp was up in the Crow's Nest while Nami was in the lounge, guiding the ship. Tracey sat on a few crates, scribbling in a notebook.
Luffy suddenly stood, pointing off into the distance. "LOOK! A SHIP!"
Sarah blinked. "Oh snap, I need a hot pocket."
Lera went up to stand next to Sarah and their shoulders touched. They blinked, then laughed. "Shoulder sex!"
Joshu Wa Gorgy was angry. In fact, he was fuming. He was furious, and livid, and enraged, and purple in the face. He was still in his cage and still next to Kyle. And not only that, he was being forced to read Great Expectations. "I don't want to read this friggin' book!"
"Shut up, will you?" Larissa muttered, leaning against the cage, busily reading Harry Potter. None of the Crew wanted Joshu out of the cage. Even if they did, they couldn't figure out how to get the cage open.
"Emily-ly, where are we going?" Marshmallow Kyle wobbled up to the First Mate.
Emily-ly was leaning sitting on Opium, reading Deathnote. "I dunno, wherever this ship is going, then that's where we'll go."
"What about the Straw Hat Crew?" Mike asked.
"Whatever. I don't really care about them…"
But I'm too lazy to type the rest of this. So we'll continue this in another chapter. Back to the Straw Hat Crew!
Nami burst out of the lounge and Usopp nearly toppled out of the Crow's Nest, but managed to hang on and peer out at sea. "Luffy's right, there's a ship coming this way!"
Zoro looked up as well, glancing at Nami, who stood next to him, then out at the Captain. "Interesting."
Sar-hah and Ler-hah stood, staring out at the small pin-prick that was apparently a ship, when Sanji walked out on deck. "I heard Luffy yellin'… what's up?"
Zoro looked down on the cook. "There's a ship coming."
The blonde blew smoke from the cigarette and walked forward to stand on the other side of Sarah. "Wonder if they're pirates or not…"
But Lera had a solution, with the power of her Float-Float fruit. "I'll go check it out!" Without another word, she pushed off from the deck and flew up into the air, turning around a few times in the air to get used to flying so high, then with a wave to the crew, she quickly flew off towards the pirate ship.
"That's my flying poopaw, bish!" Sar-hah exclaimed, grinning.
"She better not get herself killed…" Muttered the moss-haired Mr. Bushido, while Sanji smirked softly. "She knows how to take care of herself, green tea head…"
"What'd you say, curly eyebrow?"
"Guys!" Nami interrupted them impatiently. "Calm down, I think Lera knows what she's doing!"
"Even if she doesn't, she won't get herself killed." Tracey, said calmly from her perch on the crates as she shut her notebook and stood.
"Yeah, exactly!" Sarah agreed, even though a few nervous sparks of electricity flew from her fingers in worry of her best friend.
In silence, the crew watched Lera's figure fly closer to the ship. Just as she was circling the ship and was about to fly back, there was a ringing shot of a pistol and a "WHAT THE CRAP?" yell, and before the crew realized what had happened, Lera had fallen into the sea.
Tracey, Nami, and Usopp all gasped, while Zoro and Sanji ran to the edge of the ship. "Lera!"
"Oh no, Lera!" Luffy stood, his eyes wide.
Sarah waved an angry fist. "YOU POOPAW! If you die, I'll kill you! IMA POP A
CAPP! ARGH!"
Nami ran back to the lounge to take the whip-staff and guide the Going Merry towards the unknown ship. "We have to save her!"
Zoro was about to dive in and swim out to the girl, but Sanji held him back. "Hold on, she's too far away, you'd never get there in time."
"But… grrr…"
"Just wait." The cook frowned at the swordsman, then coolly turned around and pointed at Luffy. "You stay there, too. We don't need to lose you, too!"
The rubber boy protested. "But she's going to drown!"
"She's not going to drown, just calm down." Sanji, amazingly enough, was keeping a cool head and had taken control of the situation.
Usopp was desperately trying to see Lera from his high position, but Sarah had sat down in the middle of the deck, sulking.
Sanji walked over to her. "Are you alright, my lovely cupcake?"
"I'm fine, Sanji-kun... Lera's just stupid for going and getting herself flippin' shot."
"We'll save her, Sarah."
"I know. Lera doesn't die from stupid things like that."
Lera had indeed been shot. She had been carefully floating around the ship. She didn't see anyone on it, but the ship certainly looked odd. It looked like something out of a horror movie. As she had been turning around, planning on getting back to the Going Merry, a figure dressed in black had jumped out, pointing a pistol at her. Before she even had a chance to react, the gun was fired and a bullet had pierced her shoulder.
"WHAT THE CRAP!" She yelled angrily, but then, wincing, felt her floating powers somehow diminish, and she plummeted right into the sea.
As she sank, she growled softly and struggled to swim up. Once again, it didn't work. Not even her floating powers allowed her to go up. "Damnit…"
She didn't have long to complain. A rope suddenly encircled her waist and pulled her out of the ocean. She was dragged onto the strange ship, wet and spluttering. Coughing out the salt water and shivering, Lera slowly sat up to look around, then regretted it.
A dark figure loomed in front of her, chuckling softly in an evil sort of way. Terror gripped Lera's heart. This was the end. A truly horrible bad guy in One Piece had appeared, and now she was going to die. The figure came closer and Lera cringed, waiting for the worst. Closer and closer, the man came… closer… now he extended a hand…
Lera closed her eyes. "I'm sorry, Sarah… sorry, Zoro…"
She felt the hand touch her head and tensed, when the figure spoke.
"Poke."
"What the hell is up with that ship…?" Zoro muttered. It had taken fifteen minutes, but the Going Merry was finally close enough to the enemy ship for the crew to get a good look.
And they regretted it almost immediately…
"It looks like shit, if you ask me…" Sanji shrugged.
"Looks really scary…" said Nami.
"I don't care what it looks like, we have to save my Ler-hah!" Sarah yelled angrily, running up to stand next to Luffy on the sheep's head.
Luffy stared blankly at her, then Sarah realized where exactly she was standing. With a fearful yell, she hurried back down to the deck. "Like I said… we have to save Lera!"
Sarah hadn't even bothered to look at the ship. If she had, she would've noticed something off about it…
The vessel was covered in painted flowers and joyful anime characters, along with dancing bananas and llamas. It was bright and happy and sparkly, and that, of course, is horrifying beyond belief.
Closer and closer, the ship came. Once they were close enough, the Straw Hat crew could see the members of the sparkly sea craft and the name of the ship. It read "DoomDOOMDoom". Most of crew members looked rather techno (don't ask), but two main people who stood at the front of the ship were different. One was a girl, dressed rather ghetto with a strange pink disc on her head, and the other was… well…
Scary was a nice way to put it. He appeared to be all in black.
Luffy ignored the crew and pointed a hand towards the one in black, who he assumed was the captain. "Give back my crew member!"
The rubber boy had guessed right. That was the captain indeed. He smirked and laughed softly before raising his voice. "Why don't you come and get her!"
Sarah ran forward, looking furious. "WE WILL! JUST WATCH US!"
The two ships collided and fighting ensued. Sar-hah jumped over to the DoomDOOMDoom, while Sanji, Luffy, and Zoro stayed on the Going Merry to fight off the enemy crew. Sarah was throwing electricity attacks this way and that, struggling through the crew members in an attempt to reach Ler-hah. Basically, there was chaos on every ship.
"Sarah, I'm over here!" Lera yelled from where she was tied to the mast.
"LER-HAH!" Sarah squealed, and ran over to her friend. "Where are your katanas, so I can cut this flippin' rope?"
"I dunno, they took them! Just use your electricity!"
"Oh… right." Sarah wrapped one hand around the rope and let loose a concentrated amount of lightning, melting the rope instantly.
Lera stood and the two girls danced in victory, Lera careful not to jostle her injured shoulder. "POOPAW POWER!"
"Hey, not so fast…" The first mate of the DoomDOOMDoom came up to them, blocking their way.
"Dude… who're you?" Lera blinked.
"I'm Ramoney Baloney!"
Meanwhile, back on the Going Merry, Sanji and Zoro were fighting fiercely with vicious kicks and sword attacks. Usopp stayed out of the way, still up in the Crow's Nest, while Nami was holed up in the Lounge. Tracey was cornered on deck and she was frantically beating away pirates with her notebook and severe thunderstorm clouds.
The situation seemed hopeless for our crew.
Just then, the enemy captain stepped onto the Going Merry, still wrapped in menacing darkness. His voice doomed out over the two ships, halting the fights. "I… am Ben-Ho Ross! This is my ship now, because I said so!"
"… Ben?" Tracey blinked.
"… Tracey?" Ben-ho stopped where he was, the evil façade disappearing to reveal a teen guy in a black sweatshirt and black pants with steel-toed boots and hair that seemed to defy gravity by growing up. He stepped down from where he had been standing on the railing of the Going Merry, and Tracey walked forward.
After a pause...
"What the hell are you doing here?"
Who is this fearsome Ben-Ho Ross, and how does Tracey know him?
And who is this Ramoney Baloney?
Will Lera and Sarah escape the DoomDOOMDoom ship?
Will cupcakes ever do a backflip?
Find out next time on… Sanji's Cupcakes!
Wooo, cliffyyyyy.. Woot.
Yeah, so next chapters a special for Sar-hah's birthday, then I'll resume once again.
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