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"Amazing!" Chopper cheered with a hoof over his eyes. Him and Luffy were in the front of the ship, Luffy was on his special seat.
"The sea is huge!" Chopper said happily with a squeal.
"Wanna know what else is huge-" I was immediately hit in the face with a bible. "OW!"
'YOUR LOVE FOR JESUS CHRIST CAN I GET AN AMEN!' Sans yelled and bonked me on the head with the bible.
"SANS I WILL SMOTHER YOU I WAS JUST GONNA SAY OUR CHANCE AT DEATH-" I got hit again. "THAT'S IT YOU SMILING TRASHBAG FUCK!"
He chuckled and swiftly floated away as I chased after him angrily, Luffy continuing his talk about pirates exploring the huge sea.
Me and Sans stopped the chase as a giant hawk bird thing flew over our ship and covered us in a shadow.
"WHAT'S THAT!?" Chopper screamed with his eyes popped out.
Luffy looked up lazily. "It's just a seagull." He stated nonchantly.
"There isn't a seagull that big." Nami said calmly as well.
"Hey! Seagull!" Luffy called after it.
I ignored them after that and went towards the quarter deck, Sans disappearing in the kitchen with Chara. As I reached the back of the ship Sanji shuffled a bunch of cards, Zoro and Usopp in their little circle.
"Hey whatchu guys playing?" I said and rubbed my neck.
"Uno, wanna play?"
I glanced at the colorful cards Sanji had in his hands.
An evil smirk slowly tugged itself onto my face. "Hell yeah. You guys are about to get annihilated." I snickered and joined into their little circle, Zoro and Usopp tossing back my smirk as Sanji gave us seven cards each. I gave a happy hum at my cards.
After about three rounds, Chopper came running around us screaming. "IT'S TERRIBLE! A BIRD ATE LUFFY! THIS IS NO TIME FOR PLAYING AROUND! LUFFY'S IN TROUBLE!"
"Did he say he wanted our help?" The adorable marimo said and tossed down a cancel card on-
"Zoro you fucking asshole." I growled at the no-longer adorable marimo, but gave a evil laugh as Sanji used a reverse card, making it my turn again and making Usopp huff in disappointment. Just as I was gonna throw out my card a giant bird almost squashed us, destroying our game and my chance to mess Zoro up.
"Sanji I brought some meat! What? Are you guys sleeping?" Luffy kept pestering us as we laid sprawled out across the deck. The beak being bigger than Luffy himself.
"IT WAS YOUR FAULT!" The four of us shouted at him.
"How are you gonna fix this situation? I had a good hand!" Usopp growled out at Luffy.
"Seriously!" I said, throwing my arms up in the air. "I had a wild card and two wild four cards! That's right, I was about to mess up Zoro's game by giving him four more cards as revenge but noooo."
"Really? Sorry!" Luffy said simply with a laugh.
Zoro gave me a mistrusting look and pointed at his eye, then at me repeatedly whist standing up. I blew a raspberry at him and stood up as well, dusting off dust or whatnot off my pants.
"Whoa! That thing's huge!" Sanji said as he looked at the big bird Luffy used to ruin our game.
All I did was give him a perverted look, causing him to kick me harshly in the chest and sending me back to the floor wheezing.
"Now we can have some decent meals." Zoro said with a smirk.
"Is that thing edible?" Is all Usopp said as he looked at it in shock.
"Hey Chopper, what's the matter?" Luffy asked the little reindeer who seemed to be lost in Narnia.
"Well..." Chopper started, his nose twitching as a happy blush dusted themselves across his cheeks, a smile stretching itself across his face. "Pirates.. Pirates are incredible after all!"
"They are aren't they!" Usopp agreed as he and Luffy began to laugh pridefully.
"Hey, you guys!" Nami called out to us, appearing out of nowhere. "This ship is arriving at Alabasta soon. We don't have time to play around! Move it!" Nami commanded and walked away, us following her like kicked puppies.
We all walked back onto the main deck to discuss many things. Maybe I should start listing up all the puns I could use here.
"So what's Alabasta?" Tiny Tony asked curiously.
"It's the country that Vivi's father governs." Nami answered for him.
Sanji stood beside Nami and Vivi, Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp sat on the stairs, and I leaned my back against a sitting down Zoro.
"Why do you do this-" Zoro started before being interrupted.
"A rogue named Crocodile is trying to take over Alabasta right now." Usopp stated, ignoring Zoro.
"I hear that Crocodile is one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea." Sanji added in.
"Seven Warlords of the Sea?"
"Government hound dogs basically. Trained and ordered to take down pirates and all that stuff. In return the marines don't attack them and they're protected." I answered for him this time.
"Government dogs?"
"Yeah!" Usopp barked in. "They're overwhelmingly strong. They crush other pirates one by one."
"Crocodile, huh? I can't wait to see him." Luffy smirked with his fist up.
"Crocodile is a hero in Alabasta because he crushes the pirates that attack towns." Vivi explained. "But that's only his public face. Behind the scenes, he is pulling strings to cause a civil war in Alabasta.. In order to take over Alabasta! No one has noticed it. The citizens.. My father.. No one-"
"All right!" Luffy called out, smashing his fist against the palm of his hand roughly. "In that case, all we have to do is beat up that Crocodile, right?"
"Yes. If we can first stop the civil war and expel Baroque Works.." Vivi stated, a bit surprised from being stopped from going into a depressive rant again. Thank the lord for that.
"Baroque Works?" Chopper questioned.
Usopp sighed and rubbed his head. "Yeah, you don't know about them either, huh? To be honest I can't understand either. Baroque Works has a complicated system."
"It's quite simple actually." Vivi said as she started to go into her long explaining lesson again. "Crocodile is at the top, in other words, Mr. Zero. There are twelve agents and one animal who receive orders from the boss directly. Each of the twelve agents operates separately as a pair with a female agent. Mr. One, and Ms. Double Finger. Mr. Two doesn't have a partner."
"Mr. Three is the one we met in Little Garden, right?" Zoro asked.
"Right. And his partner is Ms. Goldenweek. Mr. Four is paired up with Ms. Merry Christmas."
She rambled on and on about the agents, mentioning booger dude and his blond chic side-kick. "Agents one through five have devil fruits and they work only on really important missions. For Mr. Six through Mr. Thirteen, their job is fund raising for the company. By leading the employees the entrance of the Grand Line."
"Come to think of it, there was this otter and vulture." Sanji mentioned as he took a puff out of his cancer-stick.
"They're Mr. Thirteen and Ms. Friday. Their main job is to punish those who fail missions. Other then the agents, there are two-hundred subordinates called 'Billions' under the officer agents, and one-thousand eight-hundred subordinates called 'Millions' under the frontier agents. This is a secret crime syndicate, Baroque Works." Vivi said seriously. Why must she be so serious with these chats? It does get boring.
"Alright, there are one-thousand eight-hundred, plus two-hundred.." Usopp counted up.
"THERE ARE TWO-THOUSAND AGENTS!?" Chopper realized quickly.
"TWO-THOUSAND!" Usopp said fearfully.
"Alright! I understand it very well now! In any case, all we have to do is beat up Crocodile, right?" Luffy said with a bright smile. Thank you, Luffy. For simplifying it and lightening the atmosphere.
"You don't get it at all do you!?" Usopp said angrily.
Zoro smirked. "If Baroque Works' last big job is to take over Alabasta.."
"-the rest of those 'officer agents' will all-" Sanji continued for him.
"-gather in Alabasta!" Nami finally finished off for us.
The x over my torso began to burn. Making me wince as a chilled feeling ran down my spine along with a cold sweat drenching itself across my skin.
"I see! In any case we beat the Crocodile guy-"
"That's enough. You keep your mouth shut!" Sanji said, annoyed by his captain.
Usopp tapped my shoulder. "Hey, you okay Axel? You've been staring at the floor like you were planning to pass out cold on top of it.."
My only response, was: "My ass still hurts from the fucking hot sauce."
And a minute after that? "WHO THE HELL TRASHED MY KITCHEN!?"
Who were the last people in the kitchen, I wonder? Hint, hint. Ghostly friends.
That night, I sprung up in a cold sweat as rugged pants left my mouth. I looked around in fear, but settled down once I realized my surroundings. The sleep-talking of my crew members along with their snores calmed my nerves a bit. The same visions.. the ones I had at Drum Kingdom showed themselves again. I gave a shaky sigh. I felt movement beside me on my hammock and looked down to see Usopp cuddling and snuggling into my waist...
I mercilessly kicked him onto the wooden boards below me with a loud thump and possibly a few cracking sounds. His scream was also noted.
The next morning, I was playing Uno with Chara and Sans, Chopper, Usopp, and Carue were fishing, Zoro was sleeping against the railing, and the girls were chatting about the navigation. Sanji and Luffy, however..
"Luffy! Don't lie! Tell me what you know." Sanji bent down and pinched Luffy's cheek, forcing the captain to turn towards him. "Hey, why are you looking away? Look me in the eyes!"
Luffy pulled himself away and looked anywhere else but Sanji. "Well, seriously.. I don't know anything."
"Then tell me," Sanji hissed as he took his cig out of his mouth. "How did enough food for eight people, which I carefully divided so that it'd last until we get to Alabasta, disappear randomly? Stop fighting, it's pointless! You've got a horrible poker face."
I felt my throat burn a bit, realizing Chara has control of it and gave her a look over my deck of cards. She smirked and waved me off. "Hey Luffy! You got somethin' around your mouth, darling~. Would you want me to lick that off for you, pretty boy- OKAY THAT'S ENOUGH OF THAT." I hurriedly slapped a hand over my mouth as I stared at Sanji and Luffy with my eyes wide, pointing at an invisible Chara with a slightly flushed face of embarrassment.
Zoro tossed me a look from afar. "That voice still gives me the creeps, and you saying stuff like that isn't really helping."
I gave a large sob sound. "IT'S NOT MEEEEEEE!" I wailed as Sanji angrily kicked Luffy and sent him flying over our heads.
Chara snickered and the burning feeling died away. I glared at her and tossed out a wild plus four card.
"I'm changing the color to green."
"AXEL YOU SHITTY ASSHAT!" Chara grumbled and picked up four more cards, growling at herself as she finally put down another card.
Sans gave a evil giggle and tossed out a cancel card, making me hiss and toss back at him the middle finger.
"Nami-san! Did you see that?" Sanji called up to the ginger. "The large rat trap is no longer good enough. Please buy a lockable refrigerator!"
"I'll think about it. Since it can be a life or death issue.." Nami said and looked at the 'innocent' trio who are fishing.
"Well..! We'd better catch something for Sanji-kun!" Usopp's cheerful hum was slightly muffled by something in his mouth. Same with the duck and deer.
Sanji calmly walked over to them with a happy smile. "Any luck fishing?"
"W-Well.."
Sanji smiled gently, patting Carue and Usopp on the head. Before grabbing the sides of their heads and slamming them together, crushing Chopper's head who was in the middle. They all fell onto the deck in pain.
"Seriously. I can't take my eyes off these guys for a moment!" Sanji then pointed at me. "And stop acting gay!"
"THAT WAS CHARA-! Awww is my little blond prince jealous? I know the perfect way to make it up to you~ In b- SANS YOU FUCKING TRASHBAG HOW DID YOU GET SO MANY CANCEL CARDS!?"
Sans only responded with a grin and a innocent shrug. 'Lllluck.' He said drawing out the L.
Sanji's face turned blue for a second before shaking his head and decided to poke a floating card to my right. The card moved away from him and slapped against his hand harmlessly.
"Sans said to stop fuckin' up his game." I said and laid down a normal card for once.
"It's like your imaginary friends came to life." Sanji said and walked away, making me, Sans, and Chara pause at the possibility of everything just being a coma induced dream.
The three of us took a huge intake of air and-
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAA!"
I sobbed at the end. No more mind fucks please, and thank you.
"Ahh.." Luffy groaned as his stomach growled. "I'm starving. The fish aren't biting at all." Luffy said as he magically had a fishing rod at hand and sitting next to Usopp on the railing without my noticing.
"Luffy! It's your fault! It's because you even ate the bait! The fish won't bite without the bait!" Usopp snapped at him.
"You ate it too!" Luffy defended.
"Well.. I only ate the stuff on the bait box cover."
"Have you two caught anything yet?" Vivi asked before she shrieked in terror, Carue dangling from both Luffy and Usopp's fishing rods.
"I wonder if we can catch a shark or something." Luffy said. Not seeing a problem at hand.
"I wanna catch a Sea King." Usopp chimed.
"What're you two.. DOING TO CARUE!?" Vivi demanded and bonked their heads together.
All of a sudden a giant green mist appeared before us, as it seemed we were heading straight for it.
"What is that!?"
"I wonder if it's cotton candy..."
"It looks poisonous."
"I'll go get Nami-san!" Vivi said and ran upstairs towards the kitchen.
"ARGH! AXEL DON'T SAY THAT WHEN WE'RE HEADING STRAIGHT FOR IT!" Usopp shouted at me and shivered.
"Don't worry." Nami spoke up, catching all of our attention as she stood next to Vivi on the balcony thing. "It's nothing. Just a little steam."
"Little steam my ass." I said and and stuffed my nose in my shirt. Well, Zoro's shirt technically. I'll buy me some shirts once I get in Alabasta. My black wallet that I nabbed from Loguetown was perfectly hidden and away from Nami, hue hue~. Not to mention my beautiful skele-mask scarf thing was in great shape and now worn around my very handsome neck.
"Steam coming up from the ocean?" Vivi questioned as Nami and Chopper came out to join them on the balcony.
"Yeah. It's a hotspot."
"What the heck is that?" Luffy questioned with a confused face.
"Dawww~." Chara spoke up, back in my mind again after she won our match."Look how cute he looks with his face all confused and curious~. You should kiss him~!"
"It's an area where magma is produced. There's an undersea volcano underneath that area." I heard Nami explain.
I felt Sans give Chara the same look I was making.
'Fujoshi.'
"Fujoshi."
"HONHONHON~! Maybe. But seriously, he's like adorable as heck?"
I just rolled my eyes and shook my head.
"A new island will be born here over thousands or tens of thousands of years." Nami explained the rest.
"Nami-san is so smart!" Sanji gushed out, turning into his lovey dovey mode again.
"Tens of thousands of years.. I wonder if I can live that long.." Luffy wondered as he and Usopp went back to fishing, still using Carue as bait.
"Well, you are a human. So you should try dying sometime before that.." Usopp responded casually. Which made me laugh slightly.
"Have you guys caught anything?" Sanji generally asked this time.
Luffy perked up at his voice and looked behind him. "Oh hey, Sanji. I'm hungry. Cook something."
"You guys're helpless." Sanji stated before rolling up his sleeves and walking away. "I'll go search the storage thoroughly to see if there's anything left." And with that he left into the storage room. and just in time too.
I closed my nose tighter as we started to enter the fog thing, before realizing it started to burn my eyes too. So I lifted my shirt and tucked in all my limbs and head into it like a turtle, rocking side to side slowly.
Everyone else started to cough violently as I slightly cheered in success.
"Arck! It smells like sulfur!" Usopp said and coughed out his lungs beside Luffy.
"We can't see anything! There's steam everywhere!" Luffy complained and hacked up a furball.
"Bear through it. We should be through it soon." Nami added.
As we made it through the smoke I popped my limbs out to see Usopp and Luffy staring at Mr. Two, who was hugging Carue. The diobolical duo of mine popped away.
"Oh shoot!" Mr. Two called out as he looked at Carue, his flamboyant voice as weird as ever. "Why did I jump on the duck that I suddenly came across!?"
Luffy and Usopp both looked at each other in confusion.
"Is he human..?"
"I dunno.."
The flamboyant agent slipped into the ocean and started splashing wildly. "Help me! I can't swim!" He sunk into the ocean and we watched as his outstretched hand disappeared under the waves.
"I didn't know they had a Mettaton here?"
Luffy and Usopp both looked at me and pointed at the guy under the waves.
I sighed internally and switched on my badass physic eye mode, picking up the random agent and dropped him on deck, turning off my powers again.
"I thought I'd die.." Mr. Two said as we all looked at the now soaked flamboyant agent. "Well, I'm really swanny! To think that I was saved by pirates who are total strangers.. I will never forget your kindness for the rest of my life!" He thanked us while bowing, still on his knees. "Also, may I have a cup of warm soup?"
"WE DON'T HAVE IT!" Everyone else but me yelled at him.
"WE'RE THE ONES WHO'RE HUNGRY!" Zoro shouted at him with the infamous shark teeth everyone on this crew makes.
The agent looked up at Vivi, who was on the balcony thing. "Oh, hey you cutie! You're my type! I wanna eat you! Smooch!"
I gave a laugh as Vivi instantly recoiled in disgust. "Such a weirdo..." I heard her mutter loudly.
"It's you!" He said and turned to me, shooting up and twirling around me happily. "You're the one who saved me! Merci! You saved my life!"
He finally bounced away to address the rest of the crew, making me sigh in relief. For a second I thought he was gonna start chanting and sacrifice me to Ivan. By the time I looked up Mr. Two was a complete exact copy of Luffy, I carefully moved around him and behind a wary Zoro.
"That's me!" Luffy said and picked up his hat, placing it back on his head. I'm guessing I missed the part where he gets bitch slapped.
"Surprised!? Surprised!? Surprised!?" Fake Luffy called out with a laugh and clapping retardedly. "If I touch my face with my left hand.." His face became a blur again before returning back to his fug'y self. "See? I'm back to myself! This is the power of the Clone-Clone Fruit I ate!"
"Even the voice..!" Nami exclaimed, still struck in shock.
"The body was also the same.." Usopp muttered.
"A-AMAZING!" Luffy stuttered out with his eyes popped out his skull.
I was staring at Mr. Two in shock too. I mean, that is kinda cool. But me, the badass and magnificent Axel, already knows the danger of such gameplay-!
I froze as I felt a hand touch my left cheek..
"There!" He said and spun around. "Well, for that matter I don't have to knock you down.. Now look!" He touched his face and turned into Usopp. "All I have to do is-" Next Zoro, who grinned as much as Luffy.
"EW!" I couldn't help but blurt out at Zoro's stupid looking face before turning towards the real Zoro. "No wonder you don't smile."
"SHUT UP!"
"-touch faces with my right hand," Next Chopper. "As you can see, I can-" Next me, who was sticking my tongue out at everyone and winked, "-mimic anyone!" He then turned into Nami last. "Bodies too!" And with that he pulled open the coat and- JESUS CHRIST ON A BICYCLE.
'KID LOOK AWAY THESE AREN'T FOR YOUR EYES!'
"She's hiding watermelons in there..?"
Nami hit her doppelganger's head, causing him to revert to normal. "OUCH!" He cried while falling to the floorboards.
"STOP IT!" She thundered at the flamboyant agent.
I crouched down in shock, holding a hand over my flushing face. Not recovering as fast as the other four.
"Hey you okay?" Luffy asked, Chopper and Usopp by his side as they checked on the agent.
"Pervert!"
"No you don't understand.. I'm trying my best to grab onto whatever childhood I have left..."
'Then why is your face redder than blood?'
I felt my face flush even more then it was before as I laid down on the deck, facing away from all of them in a fetal position. "Because... I don't know what to DO!"
"I'm sorry," Bon Clay stated and sat up, "I'm afraid I can't show anymore of my power."
I quickly got up, fully recovered and pointed at Nami. "I trusted you, Nacchan!"
"WANT ME TO POUND YOU TOO!?"
I stuck my tongue at her and got up, standing behind the idiot trio.
"You're amazing! Do it again!" The idiot trio cheered on with whistles and encouragements.
Bon Clay sighed and stood up. "Well.. if you insist.. I guess I'll show you more.."
"Yeah! Show us!" They kept cheering, causing me to roll my eyes and float up, floating harmlessly beside Vivi.
"You okay princess?" I asked her. She looked like she had something stuck on her mind.
"Yes, I'm okay Axel-san-" She stopped and stared at the agent in horror. When I looked at the agent he was shoulder to shoulder with the idiot trio chanting.
"That face.. He had my father's face on him!" She whisper-yelled to me quietly. I whistled lowly.
"That's gotta be some hard damage somewhere."
As a ship started approach us, Bon Clay jumped onto the railing beside Nami and Zoro.
"It's already time to say goodbye..? What a shame.." Mr. Two said dramatically, his pink coat matching his drama as it fluttered in the wind. His back turned against us.
"What!?" The idiot trio called out in protest.
"Please don't go!" Usopp cried and held his hands clasped together in a begging manner.
"Don't be sad!" Bon Clay continued dramatically. "Journeys are always accompanied by farewells.. But don't ever forget this." The idiot trio cried silently as they looked at Mr. Two in admiration. "Friendship.." Mr. Two turned his head and wiped tears with his thumb, giving us all a thumbs up. "has nothing to do with how long we've known each other. Don't cry!" Bon Clay gave one last shout before hopping onto the ship that pulled up beside us.
"See you again!" Luffy yelled towards him.
"Bye idiot!" I shouted after him.
"Now, let's go guys!"
"Yes Mr. Two, Bon Clay-sama!" His crew yelled back as they sped off.
There was a silence.
"MR. TWO!?"
"So he is.. Mr. Two, Bon Clay..!" Vivi blurted out in shock. We all looked towards her.
"Vivi! You didn't know his face!?" Luffy exclaimed.
"No.. I've never met Mr. Two and Mr. One as well as his partner. I don't know their powers either." Vivi stepped back and slid down against the wall. "Though I've heard rumors.. Mr. Two is a ballerina with a large frame, who talks like a woman. He always wears a swan coat that has 'Bon Clay' on the back."
"You should've noticed." Me, Zoro, Usopp, and Luffy deadpanned at her.
"What's the matter, Vivi?" Luffy asked her after noticing her look of terror.
"Among the faces that he showed from his past memory.. I saw my father's face, the face of Alabasta's King, Nefertari Cobra.." Vivi spoke solemnly.
I sat down on the balcony thing's railing. Swinging my feet around innocently as the great and serious marimo spoke up.
"If for example, you could mimic a king, you'd be able to do quite bad things, too.." Zoro spoke with his extra serious face on.
"Damn, I'd tap that."
"CHARA!"
'You're like, twelve can you not.'
"Actually, I'm probably like a eighty years old, I'm older than you short-skele."
"Wait, what?" I questioned her while tilting my head.
She popped out in front of me and stretched my cheeks painfully. "I'm DEAD! I already died you moron!"
"Oh ye. Also biggest 'Who cares about age' show? Seven Deadly Sins, ten outta ten."
"Axel stop talking to yourself- I mean to your ghost friends! This is serious!" Usopp huffed and crossed his arms. "We let a troublesome guy slip away, huh?" He said, now addressing the rest of the crew.
"Then he's our enemy?" Chopper asked, worry lacing through his words.
"He's certainly quite a problem if he's on our enemy's side." Nami spoke up and walked closer into our pack circle. "If he realizes that we're his enemy and transforms into one of us using his memory from earlier, we won't be able to trust our own friends."
"Really?" Luffy questioned in annoyance, one of his eyebrows arched.
"Well, hold on." Zoro joined in on the conversation. "We should consider ourselves lucky that we got to see him now, because we can figure out counter-measures." Zoro said with the most demonic smug smirk I have ever seen on him.
I smacked the smirk off him. "Oops, mosquito- AHH! ZORO NO!"
"OOPS!"
Smack.
"MOS-"
Smack.
"-QUITO!"
Smack.
'...And the great and powerful Axel is down.'
Chara tsked. "All talk no bite."
All of a sudden the ship started to shake violently along with the waves around us. As we desperately clinged onto something, a giant figure popped up right behind us.
"NYYYYYYAHHHH!" A giant white cat meow/yelled.
We ran to the back of the ship. Nami stayed there to check the way we were heading.
"Something came out!" Luffy announced.
"IT'S A FURRY-! Oh, nevermind just a regular cat." You know who said. Me just in case you didn't know.
"Sea Cat!" Vivi gasped as she looked up at the massive cat.
Both Usopp and Chopper jumped up in fear with tears falling down their cheeks. "IT'S A SEA MONSTER!"
In less than a second Zoro unleashed all three of his swords, making me scream in fear and hold my pounding heart. "IT'S THE FIRST MEAL IN FOUR DAYS!"
Luffy got in a fighting position and drew his arms back. "IT'S A MEAL!"
The poor Sea Cat backed away in fear.
"OH!? IT BACKED AWAY!" Zoro called out and took a few steps closer.
"HAVE THE SHIP GO BACKWARDS!" Our smart Captain ordered.
"W-W-W-We can't!" Usopp called back.
All of a sudden Sanji ran out and came to the back of the ship. "Don't let it get away! Capture it without fail!"
The cat chirped fearfully and pulled away again.
"HOW SHOULD I COOK YOU, CAT MONSTER!?"
"AXEL! THIS IS A ORDER! HOLD THAT THING DOWN!"
"O-OKAY-! ARCK!" I felt a stick or something collide with my skull and send me flying against the railing with the Monster Trio.
"NO!"
The Sea Cat quickly disappeared under the surface, never to be seen again.
"WHY'D YOU HIT ME!?" I cried out at her.
"VIVI! YOU JERK! What're you doing!?" Luffy shouted at her.
"W-.. Why.. Vivi-chan..?" Sanji stumbled with his words and gave Vivi a betrayed look.
"You can't eat it! Sea Cats are a sacred animal in Alabasta!"
"YOU SHOULD'VE TOLD US SOONER!" Me and Luffy complained in unison.
"There sure are many kinds of creatures in the sea!" Chopper said in wonder.
"Including the two Sea Witches we have on board.." I murmured to myself. But one heard me quite well.
"WHAT WAS THAT!?" Sanji shouted and kicked me in the side.
"OW!"
"Being scared of things like that.. You've still got a long way to go..!" Usopp said to Chopper, his legs sharking so bad he couldn't stand up. The second Chopper looked back, Usopp sprang up and put his foot on the cannon. "I'll tell you a story about when I bravely fought Sea Kings in the Calm Belt. And how I decided to make Axel my apprentice."
"Sea Kings!? Axel is your apprentice!?" Chopper yelled in shock and looked between us.
"No." I said pointing at Chopper, then switching to point at Usopp. "No, no, no."
"Big Sea Kings!" Usopp continued, ignoring me. "They were this big!" Usopp said and stretched his arms.
"Our food got away.." Luffy sobbed and chewed on the railing.
"But don't worry. You'll be able to stuff yourself soon." Vivi said, trying to encourage him.
"Really!? What cat will appear this time!?"
We all sent him a look.
"Vivi! The wind and weather seem to be becoming stable." Nacchan spoke up and walked towards Vivi and Luffy.
"Yes. We've entered Alabasta's climate area. A Sea Cat appearing is also proof." Vivi spoke in relief.
"And what we see behind us is also proof of us being so close to Alabasta." Zoro spoke up. Many Barqoue Works' ships littered across the ocean behind us.
We took a few seconds to take in the sight before Luffy spoke up. "There're so many ships!? When did it happen!?"
"When people decided that one goes with the other. These ships are very unique as well. Cannon, non-canon. Same genders, not same genders. Furrys, not furrys. Ships that just need to happen, and ships that really shouldn't exist and are terrible. So really? Pick your poison."
Nami sighed and face-palmed. "Shut your mouth, Axel."
"Hai Nacchan~!"
"Hey!" Usopp shouted suddenly, "They all have the Baroque Works' symbol!"
"No shit Wall-E! Do we do something!?" I added while swiping my hands down my face with a loud groan.
"Its employees have started gathering.. They're probably Billions, the Officer Agents' subordinates." Vivi informed us without a flinch.
"Which means that our enemy is at least two-hundred." Nacchan reported as she looked towards all the ships with a sigh.
I leaned my head on Nami's upper back and hugged her around her stomach. "Protect me Nacchan!" The next second I was twitching on the ground giggling, and with a large headache.
"Protect yourself, idiot."
"Should this be a ship. 'Cause I'm starting to slightly ship 'em."
'We'll see how it turns out.' Sans hummed patiently.
"On top of that, they are the two-hundred elites of Baroque Works.. They're far from those bounty hunters in Whiskey Peak." Vivi added calmly.
Usopp cranked up the cannon to aim at them. "Should we fire at them while we can!? Let's hurry then!"
"It's quicker if we go there and beat them up!" Luffy argued.
"Wouldn't both be quicker!?" I said and looked between the both of them quickly.
"No wait! We have to eat first!" Luffy said as he held his growling stomach.
"WHERE WILL WE GET THE FOOD!?" I yelled at him.
"Idiot! Don't bother. They're small fries." Zoro smirked at us.
"He's right." Sanji agreed.
"Wow they agreed with each other once more, it's a miracle."
"If we lose our real target, that'll be it." Sanii explained and took a puff of his cig. "They're only nine of us."
"DID I ASK YOU!?"
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?"
"I'M TALKING ABOUT THE THING!"
"WHAT THING-!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"STOP SCREAMING YOU MORON!"
After that small incident, we finally got back to business and started to tie a white cloth around our forearms. I helped Chopper tie his around his forearm as he tied mine around my forearm afterwards. Vivi helped Nami and Usopp helped Carue.
"Make sure to tie it tight." Zoro spoke up as he tugged on one end of the cloth with his teeth and the other with his hand. "Our enemy this time has too many mysteries."
"I see." Vivi said with a sneaky smile, tying the white cloth around Nami's forearm tighter.
"If we checked this, we don't have to doubt our friends." Nami agreed.
Sanji pulled the cloth on his forearm tighter with his teeth. "Does that Clone-Clone Fruit guy really become so similar when he transforms?" He spoke up with disbelief laced in his tone.
I looked around and saw Carue and Luffy in a tangled mess, half tied around each other.
Idiots.
"Hey Axel! What's your cute rating here?"
"My what?"
"You've no idea! It's not 'similar', it's 'the same'!" Usopp sighed and leaned forward on the box he was sitting on. "It's too bad! You should've seen it. We even danced with him."
"For example, Zoro's first because he's the badass cute slash hot one, but Luffy's a close second because he's absolutely adorable in all ways. Well, except when he's being a douche. Sanji is hecking adorable on all means so he actually ties with either Zoro or Luffy. But on sheer adorableness it's Chopper, but he's not on the list because that's technically beastiality. And Usopp doesn't look all that fine, but he has some cute moments y'know?"
"You're crazy." Me and Sans said at the same time.
"TELL ME WHO'S FIRST ON YOUR LIST! IS IT NAMI? BECAUSE I TOTALLY SHIP YOU GUYS. I mean you and Vivi wouldn't be so bad either since you guys aren't that bad together and the same age."
"Seriously?"
"Yes, now who do you pick?"
"Deadpool. He's first on my badass superhero list because I love his humor, but Spiderman is a close second. Let's not forget about the sass queen Tony, oh and the Bucky loving Captain Steve. Shall I continue?"
"No need. I gave up at Deadpool."
"Nice."
"I'm not interested in a male ballerina." Sanji said and lit up a cig.
"So just male ballerinas specifically? And all the other males have a chance? Like, a male clown, or a merman, or a male dragon-"
"Axel I swear to the lord and all above, I will pummel you."
My only response was uncontrolled out laughter.
"Knowing someone like that is among our enemy, we can't act carelessly." Zoro reminded us.
I finally decided to help the poor souls stuck in ribbon. As I attempted to untie them, I ended up getting my hand stuck by their constant wiggling.
"STOP MOVING DIPSHITS!"
"AXELLLL HELP USS!"
"QUAAAAACK!"
I tried to pull my hand away and untie it but that led to my hands being bond together between the two idiots. "Err.. Sanji? Can you help me untie 'em?"
"Seriously Axel?"
"YES SERIOUSLY NOW HURRY IT UP."
He trotted over here and gave a laugh when his eyes landed on my binded hands.
Enraged, I kicked him into Luffy. "UNTIE!" I began squirming my hands wildly, which led to my forearm getting hooked against Carue's torso. "AHHHHHH! WHAT THE HELL!?"
"SEE! IT'S A DEMON!" Luffy shouted at us in a panic.
Alright. We freed myself, Carue, and Luffy. And Chopper got a pep talk from Usopp.
"I see the island!" Vivi called out to everyone on the ship as we all looked over the rolling ocean onto the big sandy mountains. "Let's stop at the town called Nanohana. We have to hide the ship."
"All right! At any rate, no matter what happens, this thing on our left arm is the sign of our friendship!" Luffy stated as we all put our wrapped arms into a circle for no apparent reason, seriously how did they all know to just randomly stick out their friendship cloth. "Well then, we'll land! To a restaurant!" Luffy shouted encouragingly. "Oh, and to Alabasta." He added boredly.
"It's a side note?" All of us asked with an inward sigh.
We docked in a cove, we could see a city not that far from us from the ship. Seems legit in this soaring heat.
"So this is an Alabasta city?"
"FOOD!" Was the first thing our rubber captain cheered about.
Nami stepped up and put her hands on her hips. "Listen, guys! Use self-control and try not to act on instinct too much!"
"Yes, Nami-san!" Sanji cheered happily.
I deadpanned at her. "Did you just call us animals?"
Zoro had a vein slightly popping out of his forehead. "The guy who needs to hear that the most is already gone."
"REASTUARUNNNNNNT!" He yelled as his figure slowly started to disappear from view.
"GET BACK HERE!"
"BE FREE LUFFY! BE FREEEEE!"
"He's nothing but instinct." Usopp said with a heavy exaggerated sigh.
"What should we do?" Vivi mumbled as she looked where Luffy once was with concern.
"Don't worry." Sanji started. "Find where the most commotion is, and he'll be there." Sanji hopped off the ship.
"Ain't that the truth." Usopp and I said in unison.
"Ugh! I wish he'd at least realize he has a bounty on his head! Especially in a big county like this!" Nami complained while rubbing her temples.
I gave a small playful laugh. "Nami, Nami, Nami~." I tsked. "He knows he has a bounty, but he just don't care. So just go with the flow." Her response was a groan of annoyance, but acceptence.
"Forget about him. Let him do whatever." Zoro said as he climbed down the latter he rolled down the side of the ship. "Let's eat now and think later."
Chopper slipped on his small backpack and jumped off after him.
"They're all the same.." Nami growled with a tickmark on her head.
"Carue and I can't go with you." Vivi told us.
"Are you not feeling good?" Usopp asked her.
I floated up and flicked Usopp on the forehead. "She's the princess of this entire country! How can she not be recognized?"
"That's for sure." Zoro said on the sandy beach.
"Don't worry! I'll go shopping for you too, Vivi-chan!" Sanji said with a smile he will never give anyone else besides ladies.
"QUACK!"
"OH GOD OUR ALARM IS GOING OFF! WHAT IS IT CARUE!? SICK 'EM!"
Carue frantically pointed to the right of us.
"Mr. Three's ship!" Vivi gasped.
"That creep didn't kick the bucket after all!?" Usopp asked.
"No doubt about it. His ship runs on his Wax-Wax Fruit powers!" Vivi informed us.
"The-"
"-BEEP!-"
"-'s here?" Sanji continued on after I beep'd his mean word.
"This is bad. He's seen our faces." Zoro stated seriously once again.
"It's alright!" Usopp perked up with smirk. "I have an idea!"
So all of us minus Sanji and Chopper duck walked under a giant green sheet.
"I hate you so much right now, Usopp. Just gonna tell you that now." I growled out.
"Looks like you're having fun, I kinda pity you."
"There's no telling where he is, so we hafta move without standing out."
"I'm pretty sure we're standing out more than we would have just walking!"
"OKAY WHO THE HELL JUST POKED MY ASS!"
"QUAAACK!"
We managed to make it into a small ruin house outside of the city, as soon as we were out of sight we all practically flew out of the sheet.
"Okay guys you can come out now! Looks like nobody noticed us!"
"If so, it's a miracle." Nami deadpanned at Usopp.
"Vivi-chan. We're safe from view for a little while now." Vivi didn't even take a glance towards Sanji's direction. "Vivi-chan-?"
"Y-Yes!? Yes? You were saying?"
"What's wrong?" Sanji asked in a gentle tone.
"Where do I start?"
'Where do you want me to end it at? The overall crushing depression that my younger brother is dead and I can't get revenge on the murderer or how I got trapped into a kid's soul who is using me as a blood source?"
"Stop throwing shade Sans, we'll figure it out." I whispered in order to not destroy the outside moment.
"I'm sorry. I just felt a little relieved, so.. At the very least, from what I've seen of this town, things still seem okay.. I probably can't rest easy.. but I think I'll make it in time." Vivi spoke out her thoughts with both worry and DETERMINATION.
"Yeah. It does seem like a peaceful town." Nami agreed carefully, as to not start another emotional breakdown from the conflicted princess.
"Hey Vivi." The all mighty and wise Zoro spoke up. "You said you had a plan for the rebel army, right? What will you do now? What should we do?"
"Eat some fuckin' food?"
"Shut up, Axel." Pretty much everyone but Vivi said.
"Anyway. If you think you're gonna make it in time, it'd be better to act quick."
"Th-That's true, but the agreement was only to bring me to Alabasta-"
"Naachan, you know what to do."
Nami lightly hit Vivi in the head. "Stop calling me that! And come on, now! Are you still saying that?"
"Nami-san!"
"We traveled this far together. We can't just leave you now."
"Yeah Vivi! Don't act so distant!" Usopp cheered.
"We gave you the magical cloth of friendship, abandoning a friend in a crisis isn't exactly a thing this crew does." I said giving my own supportive claim.
"Plus, I'm interested in this Warlord of the Sea!"
"You don't have to mention that!" Nami shouted in Zoro's face.
"Not to mention people are out to kill all of us but me." Sanji spoke up.
"Haha! Loser! You forgot that Chopper's undiscovered too!" I said smugly with The Cat Face.
"And besides," Nami started off darkly. "if this country is destroyed, we won't get our reward for bringing you here. Understand?"
"Y-Yes..."
I hid behind Zoro with a whimper. "Scary Nacchan..." Zoro patted my head with a nod, inching away from Nami. Usopp hid behind me.
"Very good, then!"
"Go to hell." Was the first thing Zoro muttered.
"Don't think I forgot about your debt either, Zoro~!"
"You-!"
"Even if I'm a ghost I'll still come for my money!"
"You lousy-!"
"You'd better pay the four-hundred Berries you owe me!"
"YOU RAISED IT!"
"It'll go even higher if you're not quick to repay!"
"WHAT!"
"If the tiger comes after us, she'll take out Zoro first than Axel! So I'll have the most time to run.." Usopp said, replaying his plan to us.
"You imbecile..." I looked behind me and at Usopp with the most sadistic scary grin that I could muster. "In this world. It's only kill or be killed. YEHEHEHE!"
"AAAAAAAAAA!" Usopp took a large intake of air then passed out cold on the ground.
Everyone stared either at a passed out Usopp or at me blankly.
...
"So, who wants to grab some grub?"
Apparently the plan was to stock up on supplies and cross the desert. And I wasn't invited to get the supplies! I should've tried to stay undercover..
I floated around boredly in our small hidden base. After Usopp woke up he managed to get a good few hits in before giving up.
"Axel get down from there! You could get us spotted!" Nami complained.
I laid down on the air and propped my head up with my elbow. Then slowly but surely, I floated past Nami with a blank look. "You just jealous, hun."
She smacked me down real quick.
After a brief argument with her I wandered out of hearing distance from the group, but still hidden from curious eyes. I needed to talk with my peeps. "Hey Sans?"
'Yeah?'
"You know how that.. guy, staged everything and messed with our memories?"
'Yeaaaah?'
"Don't you think he could've.. I don't know, staged everyone from your universe's death?"
I heard silence, before Sans gave a long drawled out sigh and popped up in front of me with Chara. I took a seat and both of them sat in front of me.
"There's a lot, and I mean, a skele-ton of shit we still don't know."
We both gave her looks.
"Anyway enough with the puns, that's the thing! Yo, it's great I became a good guy and all, but does that stop me from attacking your soul from destroying all three of us?"
"Uh, I hope?"
"The answer is.. well, kinda no."
"What!?"
'Listen, kid.. Chara taking control of you was a only the beginning.'
"The beginning to what!?"
"For Gaster."
I shivered as the hairs stood up on the back of my neck. The aching pain from my chest never leaving me ever since I gained it. I looked down and hugged my knees to my chest. "..What.. do you mean?"
"Gaster was testing how long you could lose control of yourself.. But you didn't snap out of my control by yourself, did you? Sans couldn't help you and I didn't let up.."
"Your point is?"
'Remember the hints past badasses gave us for you having a fourth soul? They might have caused this, but we still don't know who it is.'
"Not just that. Ever since you've gotten that.. mark, dark magic has been drilling itself into you."
"WHAT!?'
'We tried to get rid of it, but it's as if it was trying to eat away at you... He's trying to drive you insane. Check on the mark.'
I took a few deep breaths to steady my heartbeat. Before lifting up my shirt to reveal the giant x covering my torso. Except, instead of the red lines and red swelling I expected, something black was oozing through the cuts instead. The swelling was black and it seemed as if there were cracks in the cuts.
'This has been the cause to all the exhaustion and nightmares you've been getting.'
"...I'm so fucked. How do we even get through this!?"
'Well..'
"One thing's for certain."
"We have to kill Gaster." They said in unison.
"How do we kill him? I mean, seriously! He's hitting me at eight different angles! Is it even possible to kill him?""
"Is it even possible to kill who?"
I squealed a 'manly' squeal and shrinked away from Zoro. Behind him Usopp looked at me with concern. They're the only one's that heard me. They were both dressed in cloaks we saw the villagers wearing.
"N-Nothing at all! Haha!" I gave a nervous laugh before shooting straight up on my feet. "Wow! Nice clothes you got! Can I get some too!?"
"Axel. What are you planning?" Zoro asked me, crossing his arms over his chest.
"I can get clothes like that? Thanks!" And with that I ran before he could catch me and before Usopp could speak. The second I made it to our camp, I get a cloak thrown at my face by Sanji.
"Put that on and eat something."
I saluted to him and started to scarf down food, feeling Usopp and Zoro's gaze pound against my back as they came back to the area.
"Also," Sanji said, gaining my attention again as he tossed a bottle at me. "I got you this."
It was a bottle of hot sauce.
"MOTHERFUCKER!" I cried out at him before popping off the lid and giving it a testing lick. "..THANK YOU."
"You're welcome."
"I love these types of clothes!" Nami said happily and gave an experimental spin.
"I know I asked you to shop for us Sanji-kun, but aren't these outfits for dancer girls?"
"YES AND IT LOOKS MARVELOUS ON YOU~!" Sanji swooned.
"I asked for commoner clothing.." Vivi still protested.
"Dancers are commoners, too!"
"But we're going to cross the desert.."
"Don't worry! If you get tired I'll carry you!"
"There's no getting through him.." Vivi said quietly to herself.
"Hey guys!" I whispered quietly to Sans and Chara. "If I flirt with Nami, who do you think will bop me down first, Nami herself, or Sanji?"
"Ooooo, that's a close one but I place my bet on Nami."
'I bet a zebra on Sanji.'
"I bet a lizard on Nami!"
"I bet my beat up ass on Sanji, so should I do it?"
'I didn't know you were this suicidal.'
"DO IT AXEL! BE A MAAAAN!"
I stood next to Nami, even though I was just an inch taller than her, I'll take it. "Hey Nacchan~!"
She sighed and looked at me tiredly. "What is it, Axel?"
"From how smokin' you're looking on a scale of one to ten? You'd be a nine, and i'd be the one you need~."
I braced for impact but instead I was greeted with a giggle. I felt my face heat up a bit. Holy smacks it worked-
"WHAT!?"
Annnd that's Sanji. Gotta see who'll hit me first, though.
"Are you from a coffee shop? Because I like you a latte~!" I said and gave her a cheesy but lazy grin along with a wink.
I was greeted with a sigh and a chuckle. I heard Sanji storming over. I gotta fit one more in!
"Your lips look lonely, may I join them with mine? Besides..."
I could hear Sanji's seething by now. I picked up a random small flower from the ground and held it out to her.
"-tulips,"
I heard Sanji's foot swing up above me. Goodbye sweet, sweet life.
"are better than one!" I held back restrained laughter and at last second I covered my body in blue aura, possibly saving my life as Sanji swung his heel down on my shoulder.
I'm not gonna remind myself of the very intense beating I went through.
But I carried a black eye, a huge bruise on my mid-back and an aching shoulder, which I'm convinced is shattered but Chopper doesn't think so. But even so...
"AHAHAHAHA! TULIPS! PFFF! OH GOD I'M CRYING!" I kept laughing at my own pun.
"Shit, I can't believe I lost."
'Pay up your lizard.'
"Anyways," Usopp started. "what's wrong with you, Chopper?" Usopp asked the whimpering reindeer.
"That reminds me," Sanji said, giving me one last death glare before walking over to a laid down Chopper. "where did you go?"
"Various places!"
"Is he okay?"
"Oh, the perfume's gotten to him." Sanji said.
"Perfume?" Nami asked.
"Oh, right! Tony-kun has a sensitive nose! Some of it can be rather strong." Vivi helped with Sanji's claim.
And like the evil witch Nami was, "Oh? Like this?" she asked 'innocently' and sprayed some in poor Chop's direction.
"STOP!"
"MELLORINE LOVE INTO THE ABYSS!"
"What are you, an idiot?" Zoro asked Sani coolly, easily causing a rise up from the other.
"In any case, we've accomplished our first goal of gathering supplies!" Usopp urged on.
"We're going to a place called Yuba, was it?" Nami asked Vivi.
"Yes," Vivi answered. "but first is a trek through the desert. It will likely be much more difficult than you imagine right now. There's no telling what might happen. One wrong step in this burning land, and there's no guarantee that you'll survive. I'm still a little uneasy and unsure about taking you to such a place, but I want to return peace to this kingdom! So... So I ask you again!" Vivi all of a suddenly perked up with DETERMINATION. I'm not letting that up. It's now a running gag. "Everyone! Please lend me your help! I beg of you.."
"You finally said it." Nami spoke up from a brief pregnant pause. "We've been waiting for it!"
"There's no telling what happens on sea either, right Vivi-chan?" Sanji smiled at her.
"Yeah! It'll be no different from before!" Zoro agreed.
"I can't wait to see the desert!" Chopper giggled to Carue.
"Alright, guys! Whadya say we get going to Yuba now!?" Usopp spoke up.
"YEAH!" Everyone cheered. I held up my... surprisingly empty bottle of hot sauce. That was good.
...
"Um." I mumbled while raising my hand up. "I hate to be a party-pooper.. but, we're kinda missing our favorite captain ever-"
"LUFFY!"