So, like, what...? The last time I updated was in... November? Haha. Ouch.
But I update once more, as you can see! Haven't given up on this silly fic yet.
Other than that, I don't really have much to say. No more fillers, too. I'm done with those. So sorry to everyone who... was owed a filler? Eh.
WOOOOOOOOOOO! OTAKON 2007!
Sanji's Cupcakes
Chapter 20 - "Japanting, whut?"
Last time on Sanji's Cupcakes!
Snakes on a Plane, bish. Snakes on a Plane.
LESS THAN THREE, O-M-G!
Oh, and Lera and Sarah are back to normal now, kthx.
Nami had said that it would take another week or so to get to the next island. So the crew had settled in to do what they do best.
Lounge around and do absolutely nothing!
Luffy was perched happily on the ram's head of the Going Merry, peering around at the endless, blue ocean. Usopp sat nearby, waxing his sling-shot. Among other things... that freak.
Nami had settled into the Lounge, working on her map. Sanji was preparing lunch in the kitchen, humming under his breath as he passed a bowl to Sarah, who had volunteered to help.
Zoro slept under the mast, his swords crossed over his legs as in the usual way. Ramoney, meanwhile, was hanging upside down from the Crow's Nest, keeping a look-out. Occasionally, she would fall from her perch, landing solidly on Zoro before cheerfully running up the mast again. The swordsman, threatening to slash her to bits, would grumble as he went back to sleep.
Lera, having learned her lesson that sleeping on deck wasn't the safest thing to do, had buried herself into the bed into the girls' quarters, away from all the commotion.
Strangely enough, Lera had been sleeping almost non-stop since they departed from Natsuko Island. She had even slept through several meals the other day, which was beginning to worry some of the members.
"Are you sure she's ok?" Sanji asked Sarah, raising an eyebrow as he started into chopping up carrots.
Sarah shrugged, now back into her old clothes. "Lera's an anti-social poopaw. She always sleeps. She's probably just sick again."
Content with the answer, the blonde continued preparing soup for lunch. The next day, however, Lera had still refused to get up.
"Lera... c'mon, how long are you gonna sleep? Sanji spotted some whales, you should come see!" Sarah demanded angrily, sitting down on the edge of Lera's bed.
The thick huddle of blankets shifted slightly as the curly-haired girl poked her head out to blink at her friend. "Mph... go away... I feel like shit."
Sar-hah frowned in confusion, tempted to throw a clock at her again. "So are you sick again or what?"
With an annoyed grunt, Lera rolled over, away from Sarah. "Lemme sleep."
Sarah returned angrily to the deck, where the entire crew was watching huge whales circle around the ship. Usopp was eagerly looking around, having never seen whales before.
"Hey guys, we should do some whale calling! I myself patented it! See, you just do this..." He spread his legs apart and put his hands on his hips. "And yell this. WHAAA-AAALE! WHAA-ALLEEE! SPERM WHAAAA-AAALE!"
"That's a great idea, Usopp!" Luffy said eagerly, joining in the whale calling. "WHAAA-AAALE! WHAAA-AAAALE!"
Looking rather dubious, the rest of the Straw Hats went into the position.
"WHAAAAAA-AAAAALE! WHAAA-AAALE!"
In the end, the whales were so disturbed that they decided to migrate to the East Blue instead, hoping to avoid any more freak pirates.
A few hours later, however, Lera had yet to show her face on deck, whale-calling and all. Even Zoro had noticed her absence. Sanji was the first, however, to take action. Summoning Luffy, he thrust a streaming mug of brown liquid into the rubber-boy's hands.
"Here, take this to Lera-chwan. It's tea, it might wake her up. And if you actually don't spill anything, I'll let you have seconds tonight."
"SUGOI!" Eager for extra food, Luffy sprinted off as carefully as he could, holding the full mug directly in front of him. His cheerful whooping could be heard throughout the entire ship.
In seconds, the captain had made it to Lera's bed and beamed happily, raising the mug in triumph. He had managed not to spill a drop... yet. "Lera! Sanji made you this tea! It'll make you wake up! You have to drink it!"
The cocoon of blankets didn't even move. From somewhere within, Lera grunted something like "Go to hell with your tea." Luffy, however, was not to be deterred. His raised his voice, yelling now.
"YOU HAVE TO DRINK YOUR TEA, LERA!"
Finally, a reaction. An arm poked out of the cocoon, reaching out for the tea. Luffy, shocked that yelling had even worked, could only watch in amazement as the hand stretched one finger out to rest it on the brim of the mug.
A sudden hot, wet warmth spread through his feet. Lera's arm retreated back into the blankets with another grunt. Still, the heat continued to increase in his toes. Looking down, the rubber man first noticed that the mug was tilted to the side and was now empty. The second thing was that the entire contents of the scalding hot tea... had been poured onto his sandaled feet.
With a painful shriek, Luffy fled the room, screaming about the agony and the burning sensation as he ran about the ship. Another day passed. Lera- 1, The Crew- 0.
The fourth day of the journey proved to be even more distressing. That morning, Sarah didn't get up, either, but continued sleeping in.
Sanji, of course, was devastated. "OH NO! SARAH-SWAN!"
The navigator was also less than pleased. "What's wrong with those two? Maybe it's the fact that they're devil-fruit users?"
"NO WAY! I FEEL AWESOME!" Luffy protested. Sanji and Nami turned to look at him, but the captain had already fallen to the floor of the kitchen, snoring.
Thus, the three devil-fruit users of the Going Merry fell under a weird sleep. Sarah and Lera slept away in the girls' room, while Luffy had been tossed into the guys' quarters until a remedy could be found. Naturally, Nami decided to call the rest of the Straw Hats together for a meeting.
"I say we let them sleep." Zoro said indifferently, shrugging and looking rather irritated that he had been awoken from his own nap for this.
"HOW CAN YOU BE SO CRUEL, MARIMO? What if Lera-chwan and Sarah-swan never wake up?" Sanji, naturally, stood up, looking indignant as he pointed an accusing finger at the swordsman, who ignored him.
Nami propped her chin on her hand, frowning. "We're a few days away from the new island, maybe there'll be someone there to help us."
"NAMI-SWAN'S SO SMART!" Heart bubbles began cheerfully floating around the room.
Usopp finally spoke up, leaning back in his chair as he rubbed a finger across the bottom of his nose. Ew. "Has anyone seen Ramoney?"
The rest of the crew shrugged.
So, as agreed, the sleeping trio was left alone to sleep away the hours as the rest of the crew prepared to sail into the next island. Katashi Island.
Usopp frowned as Nami informed the guys of their destination. "Doesn't that mean 'firmness'?"
"... yes."
The rest of the conversation of Nami and Usopp talking about firmness was edited from this story.
Four whole days had passed since the meeting, and the Going Merry was now moored in at a makeshift pier on the island.
Standing at the railing, the navigator looked out at the huge expanse of trees, frowning. The island was supposed to be inhabited, but she didn't see anyone.
"So... where is everyone?" Sanji asked, scratching his head as he walking out of the kitchen to stand next to Nami.
Usopp was more than happy to provide the answer as he joined the growing line at the railing. "Maybe they all heard that the famous Captain Usopp was coming and they ran for their lives! Serves them right!"
"Or maybe heard that dart-board eyebrow here was coming and they went to hide their women." snorted Zoro from the mast, not bothering to get up.
"Or maybe... they heard that Sarah and Lera were coming and decided to throw a big party!"
"With dancing, multi-colored chocobos and hot yaoi men!"
Nami, Usopp, Sanji, and Zoro, blinking in confusion, turned around to see Lera and Sarah, grinning down at them as they leaned against the barrier on the second floor of the ship.
Sarah grinned, then yawned and stretched. "I think I'm done sleeping now."
"I dunno what you're talking about, I think I could use another nap about now..." mumbled Lera, smirking as she pulled on her sweatshirt. "... where'd Luffy get to? Wasn't he right behind us?"
"YOSH!"
Out of nowhere came a speeding ball of rubber-boyness. Ignoring the angry cries from the rest of the crew, Luffy sprinted across the deck and flew out into the ocean.
Nami was the first to start screaming, as usual. "NO! LUFFY! We're not in shallow water yet!"
"GOMU-GOMU NO-!" For some reason, his arms didn't stretch. Instead of flying out of the ship, he instead tripping and tumbled right into the deep ocean water. Fearing that perhaps the Captain had sunk himself and died, which wasn't surprising, the rest of the crew hurried over to peer over the banister and see what had happened.
Luffy wasn't dead. Oh no. He was floating.
"Hey, look, guys! I'm not sinking! But for some reason, my gomu-gomu powers didn't work! Weird, huh?"
Nami didn't share Luffy's ecstatic mood. "Somehow, that doesn't sound good to me. You two!" She suddenly turned to the other two girls, who had been snickering as Luffy made an idiot of himself in the water below. "Lera, can you float? And what about you, Sarah? Can you summon up any shock-shock attacks."
Blinking slightly, Lera twitched slightly, attempting to rise up into the air, while Sarah was holding her hands out before her, trying to create some sort of electric energy.
"Well, shit." Sarah finally said, having produced nothing. She glanced over at Lera, who hadn't even risen an inch from the ground.
Lera sighed. "Our devil fruit powers are gone."
The two girls looked at each other, pondering, before punching the air with their fists. "LET'S GO SWIMMING! WOO!"
Still cheering, Sar-hah and Ler-hah jumped from the ship into the water. Cue face-palms all around.
Leaving the three to their own devices, Nami steered the ship closer to the island before the rest headed down to the beach. The devil-fruit users had already beaten them there and were in the middle of a serious session of stuffing sand down Luffy's pants.
Sanji lit himself a cigarette, glancing around at the tropical forest before them. "So what now?"
"Now..." Nami said, pulling out a map. "We go check out the island and see if there's anyone living here."
Zoro remained silent, watching Lera and Sarah intently, scowling slightly. "I don't like this."
The blonde chef walked past the swordsman coolly. "No one asked for your opinion, marimo face."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
"We are Fighting Dreamers, takami wo mezashite..."
Lera frowned, looking up from her pile of sand. "Do you guys hear something?"
"Fighting Dreamers, narifuri kamawazu..."
In response, Sarah wrinkled her nose slightly. "Is that japanting? Sounds kinda familiar..."
"Oh no..."
"Right here Right now (Bang!)"
In a sudden burst of music and roaring, a huge robot burst out of the forest, running right at the Mugiwaras.
"OH MY GOD! WHY ARE THERE TRANSFORMERS ON THIS ISLAND?"
"MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHY IS IT PLAYING NARUTARD MUSIC?"
To be continued, like your face!