TT: We finally finished this stupid chapter! I have to say, this is the longest chapter that we've ever written... And just a short explanation, the Huntress Pirate's Rules are all written on the mast in invisible ink that can only be seen with a black light. Don't ask why, they just do this. Anyway, please enjoy this special chapter!

The Rules of the Huntress Pirates (Pt 1)

Rule #1: Fish are Weapons
It was a calm day on board the Snake Goddess. The weather was calm, a rare occurrence on the Grand Line. The sun was shining and the sea was like a mirror, no waves disrupting the reflections of the sun and clouds. It was a perfect day for some chaos.

And that's just what was going to happen, as Arai made her way to the kitchen door with her body pressed against the wall. Moving as quietly as she could she cracked open the door to see Lyenne in the kitchen cooking. Seeing this Arai bent down and rolled into the kitchen before silently closing the door and rolling behind the counter.

Peeking over the edge, Arai spotted her target. There it was, lying oh-so innocently next to the oven. Its scales shined a pale green and its eyes were glazed over. The fish was about medium sized, enough to feed at least one of Huntress Pirates. 'Yes,' Arai thought, 'it was perfect.' Slowly, ever so slowly, she made her way over to the fish. And when Lyenne left the stove to get something out of the fridge, she pounced.

Arai jumped over the counter knocking dishes and fruits off of it as she cleared the surface with only about an inch between her body and the counter to spare. As the objects fell to the ground creating a series of 'crash' and 'thud's, Arai was already looming over her prize. The fish in all of its glorious, fishy glory lay before. She slowly put her hand on the fish in awe, practically tearing up at the thought of this fish being hers.

"A-Arai?!" Lyenne exclaimed as she watched the girl pick up the fish. Though the mess she made in the kitchen ticked the chef off, she was mainly confused by why Arai was so absorbed in the fish and better yet, what she was going to do with it. "What are you-"

SLAP

Lyenne was stunned for a minute before the stinging sensation in her right cheek brought her back to reality. "...Did you just slap me with a fish?"

Arai narrowed her eyes at her friend and crossed her arms with the fish now hanging from her hand. "Damn straight."

And with that Arai gripped tightly onto the fish's tail and swung it.

SLAP

Once more the sound of the limp creature hitting Lyenne in the face echoed throughout the room, though this time it was her left cheek that held the stinging sensation. While Lyenne stood there gripping her cheeks in her hands, Arai calmly made her way out of the kitchen and spotted Tarra leaning against the railing of the ship.

"ARAI! GET BACK HERE, DAMMIT!"

Lyenne emerged from the kitchen, face red in anger and head covered in tickmarks. The murderous look in her eyes made Arai gulp as she began to run away, Lyenne close on her tail. The two soon disappeared into the lower deck, leaving Tarra alone on the upper deck, confusion evident on her face.

"What the heck?"

Needless to say, those two made a new record for the amount of damage caused in under an hour.

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Rule #2: Cupcakes are Evil

Tarra sighed as she entered the kitchen. Why were all of her crewmates so weird? Because she was getting tired of having to listen to all of the explosions and Ruby when she finds out about all the damage the two troublemakers cause. She walked over to the fridge and took out a can of soda, sighing in content as she savored the carbonated liquid sugar.

"What a simple human."

This voice caught Tarra's attention as she looked around the room for the person it belonged to, only to find no one. The only other thing occupying the kitchen was a large vanilla cupcake with pink frosting.

Tarra scanned the kitchen twice before setting her sights on the door and letting her gaze linger for a few moments before turning her attention back to the soda, shrugging off the voice. Only to hear it again.

"It seems you aren't just simple but also quite dull as well."

Tarra almost spit out her drink from the shock of hearing the voice again and once again turned around to look for the owner of the voice. Her shock soon faded but it was replaced with the realization that who ever this was, was insulting her."Okay, whoever you are, stop insulting me and show yourself you coward!"

"I am showing myself, you half-wit! Look down."

Doing so, the only thing Tarra saw was the cupcake. Raising an eyebrow, she walked over to it.

"Don't tell me you're the voice I've been hearing," she said, leaning down so she was eye level with the cupcake.

"Indeed," the cupcake said, its voice deep and masculine, "Though it took you long enough to realize. I wasn't aware humans were so slow."

Tarra couldn't believe it. A cupcake was talking, but most of all, the stupid thing was insulting her!

Tarra narrowed her eyes in a glare and got down close to the cupcake. 'Stupid cupcake. Two can play at this game!' At the thought an evil smirk appeared on her face.

"Well, well, don't you have a big voice for something so delicate and P. I. N. K."

The cupcake released a few growls and what sounded like constipated moans, making Tarra take a step away.

"INSOLENT HUMAN!" it yelled, hopping up and down angrily, "I WILL NOT BE INSULTED BY AN INFERIOR BEING SUCH AS YOURSELF! NOW GROVEL ON THE GROUND AND BEG FOR FORGIVENESS, AND I MAY LET YOU LIVE!"

Tarra stared at the cupcake with a blank expression, before flipping it off. "Piss off, you little piece of shit."

And with that, Tarra raised her fist up high and brought it down upon the cupcake. Needless to say, it was smashed all over the counter.

"Aw man," Tarra said as she looked down at the mess she made, "Now I'm gonna have to clean this mess up. I should've just eaten the little bugger."

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Rule #3: Spoons are Dangerous

Lyenne walked back into the kitchen, ignoring how there were little bits of pink icing on the table. She'll clean that up later. Once she reached the stove, she began cooking the soup she had been working on before Arai (rudely) interrupted her. Pulling out a spoon to stir the soup, her hand slipped and she dropped it. Lyenne watched wide-eyed as the spoon cut straight through the wood floor. She stared at the remaining half of the spoon that stuck out of the floor for a minute before pulling it out and inspecting the wooden utensil. Finding that it was indeed a blunt edged spoon, she placed it gently in the sink and took out another spoon. Only to find out that this spoon also went through the floor. And so did the next one. And the next one. And the next one.

The next morning, Tarra, Arai, and Ruby read a small notice that their chef had posted on the kitchen door.

"Spoons are now banned from the kitchen."

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Rule #4: Birds Can Talk
Ruby sighed as she leaned against the tree, fully intent on falling asleep. She was tired from cleaning up after her crew and the multiple explosions/property damage/ mental scaring that comes in their wake. All she wanted to do was take a nap.

"Wow, you look tired."

Yeah. You know what, Ruby was tired. Almost too tired to ignore the strange voice. Almost.

Ruby sat up slightly, a sleepy expression on her face as she viewed the area around her. The only thing relatively close to her was a pair of birds, but seeing as they were on the Grand Line she wasn't about to put it past birds being able to talk.

"Of course she does, you idiot! She has her own idiots to deal with!" A different voice spoke this time.

"I wouldn't necessarily call them idiots," Ruby said, not at all disturbed that she was starting a conversation with birds. "Just hyperactive children with little common sense. Though the amount of damage they do is bothersome..."

Ruby sighed for the one hundred and something time that day as she glanced at what used to be the entrance to the smallest storage room. Apparently, Arai had hidden there to escape Lyenne's wrath. Sadly, she had failed horribly.

"Really bothersome."

The birds followed her line of sight and seemed to nod their heads in agreement. Before what could be the slightly smarter bird moved closer to her.

"Why not ditch 'em for the day? Come hang out with us." After that was said the other bird nodded -or at least that's what it tried to do- in agreement.

Ruby gave the birds a small smile. "No, I'm fine. Even though they can be trouble at times, they're still my nakama. I could never leave them on their own."

She paused for a minute before continuing. "That, and they might destroy the ship while I'm gone..."

"Are you sure you could always come with us...," The bird said trying again while the other bird hopped around the deck. While Ruby and the more intelligent bird were conversing the other bird had made its way over to an container of worms sitting on deck next to a fishing pole.

"Yeah," Ruby said with a smile. "I wouldn't leave my nakama for the world."

The more intelligent bird smiled at the girl before flying over to the other bird as it finished eating the last few worms in the container. Together the two flew off, leaving Ruby under the tree as she began to doze off.

"Yeah," Ruby said. "Wouldn't leave them for the world..."

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Rule #5: Slenderman is my Best Friend

Arai was down in the engine room fixing things up. Again. When she turned around to come face to- well not really a face but more like face to blank face. In front of her stood an insanely tall man wearing a suit who had no face what-so-ever. She stared at him for a total of fifteen seconds before dragging him up to the deck.

"Guys, look at my new best friend!"

"... Arai, you do know this man doesn't have a face, right?" Lyenne said as she looked at the tall man nervously. Tarra merely stared as Ruby calmly walked over to her firstmate.

"Arai...," she said slowly, trying to lead the other girl away from the man. "You do know that this man is called Slenderman, right? And that he kidnaps... children."

Everyone stood on deck in an awkward silence just staring at each other before:

"He... kidnaps... children..." Arai stated slowly pulling away from the man to stare at him before she turned to her friends with stars in her eyes.

"That means he's like a ninja, right? So cool!" She exclaimed making Tarra face palm at her actions and Lyenne cringe a bit.

"No, Arai, that is not cool. He is also said to kill people, take out their organs, put them into plastic bags, and then places them back into their body," Ruby said with a sigh.

"But all I wanted to do was be in your guy's movie."

Everyone jumped slightly at the Slenderman's strange voice. It took them a moment to react.

"I didn't know he could talk..."

"W-wait we have a movie?" Lyenne asked confused looking over to Tarra who was equally confused.

"I don't know, do we?"

Arai suddenly pushed the two apart dressed in the stereotypical directors outfit.

"Okay people we start filming in one minute! Slendy get over here, you the star of the movie!" Arai yelled through a megaphone as she marched up to Slenderman and dragged him to an already made movie set.

Ruby's eyebrow twitched slightly before she sighed and went to lie back down under her tree.

"You two can deal with this crap. I'm going back to sleep."

And with that, the captain of the Huntress Pirates fell asleep, leaving the chef and swordswoman to deal with the "movie."

"What! Don't leave us!" The two cried out looking at Ruby in shock. They didn't have long before Arai came over, handing them scripts and costumes. Lyenne stared at her while Tarra looked about ready to punch Arai in the face.

"Why am I a fucking princess?!"

"Just cause. Oh, and Slendy is the gang leader and prince who you fall in love with."

Tarra glared at Arai and down at the hot pink satin dress in her hands. Looking up she noticed Lyenne already rehearsing with the strange man and she was dressed in a wedding gown, making Tarra raise an eyebrow.

"Why is she dressed for a wedding?"

"In this scene you are going to stop the wedding between your love and your backstabbing ex-best friend," Arai stated in an calm and mature voice.

"This is so stupid," Tarra said as she looked at the script. "And do I have to wear that dress? I'd look look like a skank."

Arai frowned. "I think you'll look nice in it."

The two had a staring contest until Arai finally dragged Tarra into another room, leaving Lyenne and Slendy alone. The chef glanced at the faceless man nervously.

"Sooo, you're an actor?"

The man looked at- well at least turned his head in the direction of- the script. They stood in an awkward silence before he turned towards Lyenne.

"I think the script should have more explosions..." He started, making Lyenne think: Oh god not another Arai!, before he finished his statement. "...and dead children."

"...What?"

"I mean Curt Russell."

"... Okay then," Lyenne said as she slowly edged away from Slendy. Arai and Tarra finally emerged from the other room. Arai smiled proudly while a fuming Tarra followed behind, wearing the pink dress. Lyenne had to suppress her chuckles when she noticed the crudely done makeup that caked the swordwoman's face.

"Let's just get this over with," Tarra bit out, sending a death glare in Lyenne's direction.

Later that day

Ruby raised an eyebrow as she watched the finished movie. Honestly, it wasn't that bad, if you like princesses, gangs, and weddings gone wrong.

"And you wrote this script in ten minutes?" Ruby asked as she turned to a beaming Arai.

"Of course I did! I am a famous screen writer and director after all!" Arai boasted proudly before shrieking when a steak knife lodged itself in the wall next to her head. Tarra, who threw the knife, then began chasing Arai with her swords drawn, yelling about the many ways she was going to kill her. Lyenne sighed at them before turning to Ruby.

"Hey, have you seen that Slenderman guy? I haven't seen him since we finished... that."

"I gave him one of our rowboats. He said something about mass producing the movie," Ruby said a small smile. "He's actually not a bad guy if you just get to know him... and if you're not a small child."

The four Huntress pirates shuddered. "Let's just hope we never meet him again..."

"Aww," Arai said, slumping. "But I wanted to invite him for dinner sometime..."

"NO!"

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Rule #6: Fishing is for the Lucky
Later that day, the Huntress Pirates were fishing. Tarra, Lyenne, and Ruby were on one side of the ship while Arai was on the other.
"I got one!" Tarra exclaimed as she reeled in her catch. Once she was able to pull the fish from the water, Tarra sweatdropped at it's small size. It was about the size of a watermelon, not that that was very small, but this was the Grand Line. All of the fish were supposed to be big.

"Good job, Tarra that'll feed, maybe, Arai." Lyenne stated as if she was talking to a child making Tarra growl.

"Well lets see you do better, eh?" With that the two entered a contest while on the other side of the boat Arai sat staring at her bobber.

"Where are all the fishies?"

Ruby sighed at the two's behavior, especially when they started to bet on who could get the biggest fish. Putting her attention back to her bobber, she stared silently as she waited. Meanwhile, Arai got a bite, only to find a tin can on her hook.
"Aw man...,"

Arai threw the can behind her making it hit Lyenne in the back of the head almost causing her to tumble off the ship. She manage to balance herself and threw a glare towards Arai before her bobber went under. At the same time Arai's bobber went under making her squeal in delight. Both girls reeled in their catches at the same time. Lyenne caught a fish the exact same size as Tarra's while Arai somehow managed to get a waterlogged pair of pants.

"Umm..."

Meanwhile, Ruby was still staring at her bobber. The other three Huntress Pirates sweatdropped at the amount of concentration Ruby was using. Shaking it off, they went back to fishing. The next thing Arai caught was a worn boot that was falling apart.

"Oh come on! This boot doesn't even float!

Arai once again threw the boot behind her. This time the boot hit Tarra's head before bouncing off and hitting Lyenne's. The two girls flailed around trying to keep them selves from falling off the side of the ship, all while hitting each other and swinging their poles around. Once they finally stopped thrashing they noticed that both of their bobber's were under. Both of them started frantically reeling in until the catch broke the surface of the water to show... their lines tangled in a large knot with an eel on the end.

"Eh?"

"Congratulations," Ruby said with a smile, still staring at her bobber. "It seems this bet ends in a tie."

She ignored the cries of protest from the two girls as Arai suddenly cried out. "I got something!

Finally turning from her bobber, Ruby turned to look at the fish her firstmate finally caught after many failed attempts.

"It's a shark!"

Arai smiled brightly as she pulled it up on the deck. "Look at my catch!" Tarra and Lyenne glared at her because seriously why does she get to catch something like that?

"Ruby, can I keep it?" She asked looking towards her captain with puppy-dog eyes.

"Sure," Ruby said, then suddenly jolted forward as her bobber went under the water. She struggled to keep herself on the deck until she finally brought her catch out of the water. Tarra and Lyenne gaped at the monstrous size of her fish.

"You caught a Sea King?!"

Ruby smiled as she shot said Sea King and pulled it onto the ship. "I guess fishing is just for the lucky."

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Rule #7: The Ocean does Drugs
"Ruby?"

"Yeah?"

"Why does the ocean have seaweed?"

Ruby raised an eyebrow at the sudden question. "Why do you ask?"

Arai leaned against the railing as she stared down at the large cluster of seaweed that floated by their ship.

"Well, there's that nasty pond weed, and then there's seaweed, and there's regular old weed."

Ruby sweatdropped, dreading where this conversation was going.

"Well what do you think Arai?" Ruby asked.

"Weeelll... The ocean has seaweed 'cause all the fishies need it to make money. If the fish don't have the seaweed, then they can't get worms and if they can't get worms, then they have to sell their fish children for money. If they sell their fish children for money then the fish kids will get mad and sell their parents out to the Ocean government. The Ocean government would come to me, of course, because I'm the Fish Queen, and then I will have to execute some seaweed druggie fish and then... yea."

Ruby sweatdropped at her firstmate's explanation. "I see... So you're basically saying that all fish are drug addicts?"
Arai was about to say something, but was interrupted by Tarra as she came over to the railing. "The hell are you guys talking about?"
Apparently, she had been listening.

"Why the ocean has seaweed and how it affects my subjects economy," Arai stated as if was natural making Tarra sweatdrop.

"Yeah, I get that but you said seaweed druggie fish would be executed, but aren't they the ones selling their children?"

"Yeah, but the money they make off their fish children is used to buy drugs."

"That means either way you have to be a drug dealing gang member fish or a child selling druggie fish," Lyenne said popping into the conversation.

Ruby groaned as she rubbed her temple, a headache beginning to form. She got up, leaving her crew to talk about fish and weed. She seriously didn't want to listen to their nonsense right now.

"What's her problem?" Tarra asked as she glanced at the retreating back of her captain.

The other two shrugged. "Don't ask us."

"So... now what?" Lyenne asked the two others.

"You wanna go check on my kingdom with me?" Arai offered. Tarra and Lyenne shared a glance before shrugging and following Arai.

2 Hours Later

"We so shouldn't have started an underwater drug war!~" Arai cried from her place by her two friends. They were currently tied up while hanging upside as the so called Ocean government fought all the drug dealing gang fish.

"Well this is a brilliant situation you've gotten us into," Lyenne muttered as she watched the battle waging on below.
"You know what, Arai? When this is over, I'm going to murder you," Tarra said, growling when a stray coral bullet nearly hit her.

Arai decided it was for the best to ignore the two at her sides and continued to watch the battle while trying to encourage her soldiers.

"Fish soldier 1 go left and then... NO! That's not right, now look you're hurt! Hey, fishie cadet, we have an injured fish over here! What, I don't care if you have injured fish everywhere help him! Don't give me that kinda tone or you'll be grounded with fish flakes for a month!"

As she continued to yell at her soldiers Tarra and Lyenne sighed. Where was Ruby when you needed her? Then suddenly, a very pissed Ruby showed up. And she was dressed as a night.

"Remind me to never leave you three alone again. Ever."

And in the time span of five minutes, she beat up all of the druggie fish, made them sign a peace treaty, and untied her three crewmates.

Tarra sighed in relief and Lyenne began moving around to crack her back, before both girls landed a punch straight to Arai's head.

"Ow..." Arai mumbled holding her head as her subjects began to surround her, worried. It didn't take long for all of the fish to glare at Tarra and Lyenne and begin chasing them for hurting their queen.

Arai began to laugh, hands on her hips. "Hah! That's why you don't mess with the fish queen."

"Arai..."

"Huh?" Arai looked around for the whisper soft voice that had called her name, confused when she saw Ruby begin to fight a dragon that came out of nowhere.

"Wake up..."

Arai then proceeded to laugh when she saw Tarra and Lyenne come out of nowhere. Lyenne was dressed like a princess in a red dress and tiara, while Tarra was wearing a jester's costume.

"WAKE UP"

Arai woke up, startled when all she saw was her captain's face. "Huh?"

"You were dreaming," Ruby said, laughing at the drool on Arai's face.

Arai looked around the ship before sighing. "That was a weird dream..."

Little did she know that a small head was watching her from the water, waiting for the day Arai finally realized her true destiny...

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Rule #8: Never Go Towards the Light

Lyenne sighed as she leaned against the rail, staring out at the starry night sky. Everyone else was inside, sleeping, as she looked out to the black abyss. Then suddenly, the stars seemed to move. Lyenne raised an eyebrow before leaning forward to inspect the little moving lights.

"Are those... fireflies? In the middle of the ocean?"

She stared at the bugs, entranced at how they seemed to move and flash their lights in patterns. It was hypnotizing. Slowly, Lyenne climbed onto the rail as she stared at the fireflies. They were so bright. So beautiful... It seemed as if she was going to walk off of the rail when one of the fireflies hit her face, snapping her out of her trance.

"AHHH! IT'S ON MY EYE, IT'S ON MY EYE!"

She fell off of the rail and onto the deck, clutching her eye as she rolled onto the grass. Eventually she got it out and scowled at the luminescent insect.

"Stupid bug. Next time I see you guys, I'm going to fill an entire jar with your friends and family."

Still scowling, Lyenne stood up and headed to her room, intent on falling asleep.

"Now I understand why they say not to go towards the light."

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Rule #9: Beware of the PMS

As morning approached, one could sense how there was something terribly wrong on the Snake Goddess. And that's just how the Straw Hats felt as they got closer to the ship.

"Oi!" Luffy shouted as he jumped onto the deck. "You guys awake?"

Slowly a door opened, revealing Arai as she walked slowly towards Luffy, still in her pajamas. Her bangs covered her eyes and a black aura was radiating off of her body in waves. Once she reached the straw hat wearing boy, she grasped the front of his vest firmly in her hand.

"Shut. The fuck. Up. SOME OF US ARE STILL TRYING TO SLEEP, YOU DUMBASS!" she yelled, glaring up at Luffy with bloodshot eyes.

The Straw Hat's gaped at the agitated girl. From what they knew about the firstmate, she's usually very calm and bubbly, and doesn't get mad very easily. The complete opposite of what they were seeing right now.

"E-eh?" Luffy questioned nervously, trying to back up a bit. Arai's grip tightened on his vest and she looked as if she was about to yell some more when a door creaked open and a blur shot out.

"OH MY GOSH! RUN FOR YOU'RE LIVES, IT'S A GIANT, MAN EATING, GREEN RASEBERRY!~" Lyenne screamed with a crazy look in her eyes as she ran around in circles on deck. Arai's grip on Luffy's vest lightened as she watched the chef.

"Would you SHUT UP!" Arai yelled, making Lyenne stop and stare at her.

"I'm sorry, flying minty bunny..." Lyenne said, bowing to Arai.

"What's all the noise about...?" Ruby said as she slowly edged out of her room, a cloud of depression hanging over her head. There appeared to be bags under her eyes and she was dressed completely in black. Her shirt even had the word "emo" on it. "Did somebody die?"
"Shut up Ruby, nobody wants to listen to the shit you say," Arai said, finally releasing Luffy's vest. Ruby hung her head, the cloud of depression getting darker.
"I'm sorry I'm so pathetic..."

"Damn right your pathetic! LYENNE SIT DOWN!" Arai screamed as she shoved Lyenne's head onto the deck. Ruby moved to the other side of the deck where she sat with her cloud of depression overhead.

"Tarra, get your ass out here!" Not a second later said girl was running over to Arai, tears streaming down her face.

"I-I'm sowwy!~" She wailed while Lyenne started to sing a song about using a chainsaw to destroy gummy bears.

"Stop crying! God, you're almost as pathetic as Ruby," Arai said, kicking Lyenne when she went to bite Tarra's leg, saying it was a piece of chocolate.

The Straw Hat pirates watched on in confusion as Arai continued to verbally abuse Tarra, causing said girl to cry even more while Lyenne began running around deck again. Ruby was in the corner, mumbling to herself about how life sucked. All in all, something was very wrong with this picture.

"W-what's wrong?!" Luffy exclaimed in surprise, causing Robin to giggle and Nami to have a sudden look of understanding cross her face.

"What's wrong? WHAT'S WRONG!? THESE THREE ARE WHAT'S WRONG! Always acting like this!" Arai screamed gesturing to the three behind her.

The men of the Straw Hat crew were left in the dark as Nami began to drag the four into a room. While in the room, she took out a small bottle of pills.

"You guys are going to have to take these," Nami said, handing each girl a small red pill. "You'll feel better afterwards."

Tarra, Ruby, and Lyenne swallowed the pills no problem. Arai on the other hand wasn't as easy.

"Oh no, I'm not taking those." Arai stated staring at the pills and Nami in a mixture of distrust and disgust.

And with that, the battle of wills began. Arai burst through the door with Nami on her heels trying to shove a pill down her throat. To avoid being caught, Arai jumped over Zoro and ran past Sanji only for Robin to use her devil fruit powers to restrain her.

"NOOOOOOO! IF IM'MA GO DOWN, IM'MA GO DOWN FIGHTIN!~"

Eventually they got the girl to take the pill, albeit by force. Though, Sanji had several bite marks on his arms, Zoro had a black eye, and Usopp had a broken nose due to the firstmate's struggles. While they currently had the raging girl tied to the mast, Ruby emerged from the room. And much to Nami's relief and the men of the Straw Hat's confusion, her cloud of depression was gone. She stared out at the Straw Hat crew for a minute until her gaze shifted to her firstmate.

"...Does anyone mind telling me why you have Arai tied to the mast?"

Nami walked over to the girl, ignoring how the other two Huntress Pirates emerged from the room, also back to normal.

"PMS," was all the orange haired navigator said.

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Rule #10: Drugs are Bad
Tarra sighed as she sat at her desk, basking in the infirmary's scent of antiseptics and bleach. It got boring in this room, mainly because none of the Huntress Pirates really get hurt to the point of life threatening. First aid is usually all that's needed.
With another sigh, Tarra turned to one of the many shelves that held the medicine and grabbed a small green bottle which a thick, powder-like substance inside. As soon as the doctor began to open said bottle, the door suddenly opened, startling the girl.

"Dear god, Lyenne. Don't do that!" Tarra screeched out, trying to find the bottle she accidentally threw when the door opened.

"Hai, hai, sorry."

Lyenne watched Tarra search a bit more before asking aloud, "So, um, what are you looking for?"

Tarra didn't answer only grumbled and continued to look. Her eyes widened when she noticed the bottle had somehow landed on the top of the door, balancing dangerously above Lyenne's head, the powder just barely being contained. She was about to tell the chef not to move, until Arai came slamming into said girl. This caused a chain reaction as Arai's weight caused Lyenne to fall forward, which then caused the girl to push the door open further, which then caused the bottle to topple over onto the two, covering them in a thick coating of powder.

Tarra could only watch on in complete and utter horror as the powder began to settle. Luckily, none of it had gotten on the doctor. Lyenne sat on the floor coughing her lungs out as Arai began sneezing like there was no tomorrow. She noticed how Tarra seemed to look absolutely horrified but she didn't feel the need to figure out why as she was starting to feel a little strange.

"I... feel funny...," Arai mumbled before she giggled a bit, making Lyenne slowly, very slowly, turn her gaze to Arai.

"Oh god..." Tarra whispered. Ruby was sure to kill her when she found out.

Lyenne also began to giggle as the two slowly began to get up, only to stumble and land face-first on the wood floor yet again. This set them into another fit of giggles. Tarra was hesitant to get close to the two. That bottle had contained a specially made medicine that was close to a mixture between a hallucinogen and a mild narcotic, but not as addictive and safe to use for human consumption. The only reason she was freaking out was because it was Arai and Lyenne who had been drugged. Meaning shit was about to go down, and fast.

She was suddenly knocked out of her thoughts when a blood curdling scream echoed off the walls of the room. Lyenne sat looking at a blank spot in the room, terror written across her face.

"I-its the... the... bunnies... and... they have... soup ladles," she stated slowly, pausing every few seconds. Arai looked over and her eyes widened. She made her way to her feet and stood there wobbling for a minute before clumsily running out of the room screaming something unintelligible, and not a minute later Lyenne followed.

"What... just happened?" Tarra asked herself before she realized with horror that Ruby was somewhere else in the ship with two drugged up maniacs running around.

Said girl looked up from the book she was reading, a pair of reading glasses perched on her nose. Her instincts told her something was wrong, yet she shrugged it off. Tarra would come get her if something was wrong. That, or scream bloody murder.
"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. This is bad," Tarra said as she searched the deck for the two drugged lunatics. "A single dose of that drug was made for the intent of using it as a weapon against a group of Marines, not two girls. Who knows what kind of after affect there will be once the drug leaves their systems..."

The two mentioned girls were running in circles screaming at the top of their lungs in one of the storage rooms. Lyenne held a stick trying to fend off whatever strange creatures she was seeing while Arai held a lasso made out of a jump rope and was spinning it around trying to round up the creatures Lyenne defeated. Tarra opened the door only to close it and walk back out when she saw the two girls.

She put a hand over her face and sighed, wishing that the two had just knocked instead of bursting into the room. Why did they even come to the infirmary? The two usually hated the room.

Tarra jumped as she was snapped out of her musings when she heard a loud crash inside the room, followed by delirious laughter. Tarra sighed yet again. This was going to be a long day.

"H-hey you know what... we should do?" Lyenne asked pausing in the middle of her sentence to send her hazy gaze over to Arai.

"Wha?" Arai asked as she tried to make a snow angel on the wooden floor of the room.

"We should... W-we should... should... Huh?" Lyenne questioned at the end, forgetting what she was going to say. Arai started to laugh, followed by Lyenne and soon they were both on the floor laughing harder than they ever have.

"We should go on a quest!" Arai stated loudly as she shook Lyenne almost violently, Lyenne gave her a stupid grin in response before they both got up to find their 'weapons' and 'armor'.

After suiting up, the two left the storage room and ran past a stunned Tarra, who sweatdropped at their attire. This really was going to be a long day...

Several Hours Later

"...Can you please explain to me exactly how this happened?"
All of the Huntress Pirates were gathered in the middle of the deck, three of them worst for wear. Arai and Lyenne were still dressed in the assortment of boxes and pots they had put on before they started their little "quest," while Tarra was scorched at certain places, her clothes ruined and her hair slightly tinged.

"Well you see..." Tara began to explain, recalling the events that had happened before they were found out by Ruby.

xXxFlashbackxXx

Tara ran after the two girls, who were kicking open doors and making quite a bit of noise.

"AAGHH!" Was Arai's battle cry as she changed her direction towards Tarra, wielding a can of hairspray. Tarra raised an eyebrow at the girl only to scream when Lyenne popped up beside her and use a match to light the hairspray on fire. This was just the start of the one sided battle.

Tarra ducked to the side, yelping as the hairspray flamethrower barely grazed her skin. She glared at the two. "Oh, it's on."

Reaching to unsheathing her swords, Tarra realized something very important. Arai was currently holding the swords, much to the doctor's annoyance.

"Fuck, when this is over I'm going to kill you two."

"Shuddup, ya' don't know who you're talkin' to!" Lyenne yelled at her, picking up the jump rope lasso and lassoing Tarra to the ground. Arai seeing, Tarra fall to the ground, jumped on top of her and tossed Lyenne the swords.

"Goddammit!" Tarra yelled as she tried to buck Arai off- key word being tried. The firstmate had a good grip on the girl below her and merely smiled when she gave up.
"I'll get you guys for this, drugs be damned," Tarra muttered, resigned to her fate as she lied motionless under Arai.

At that moment her swords were stabbed into the floor beside her to hold her in place.

"We have captured the mighty green dragon!" Arai yelled striking the victory pose while Lyenne smiled.

"Then we must search for its eggs! Remember the purple ones are the ones we can eat, the yellow ones explode, the pink ones are poisonous, and the gold ones are made of gold!" Tarra was slapped across the face after that statement.

"TELL US WHERE YOUR EGGS ARE!" The two girls hollered together at the trapped girl.

"SNAP OUT OF IT, YOU IDIOTS!" Tarra yelled as she kicked Lyenne off of her, "NORMAL PEOPLE DON'T REACT TO FREAKIN DRUGS LIKE THIS, AND YOU TWO SURE AS HELL AREN'T EXCEPTIONS. And another thing... I'M NOT A FUCKING GREEN DRAGON AND I DON'T HAVE ANY EGGS!"
The two stared at Tarra for a minute before sighing. "You're a horrible liar, Mrs. Dragon."
"GODDAMMIT!"

Arai gasped as she stumbled backwards and Lyenne held up a baseball bat that she got out of thin air. They shared a look before nodding and jumping on top of Tarra.

"We'll make you tell us Mrs. Dragon. Lyenne go find her husband and capture him!" Lyenne saluted and jumped off of Tarra, running out of the room in the blink of an eye.

"I DON'T HAVE A FREAKING HUSBAND!"

~Flashback End~

"...And it pretty much went on from there." Tarra said sheepishly rubbing the back of her neck.

Ruby sighed and rubbed her forehead, not even bothering to chew the three out. Technically, nobody was at fault and this was all just a strike of bad luck.
"Just make sure you guys knock before entering the infirmary, and Tarra," Ruby said, "Please be careful when experimenting with drug attributes."
With that said, Ruby turned from the three and began walking back to her room, muttering something about sleeping her headache away. The remaining Huntress Pirates looked at each other before shrugging. They resumed doing whatever it was they were doing before they had caused chaos, just like any other day on board the Goddess. All was peaceful, that is, until Arai blew something up again. Until that time comes, the girls basked in the peace. Just like any other day in the lives of the Huntress Pirates.

TT: And that's the end of The Rules of the Huntress Pirates, Part 1.

AP: Be happy, 'cause after ten more chapters, you'll get another "Rules" chapter!

TT: Yep. Now, please review and make me happy!

AP: Yeah!