Daniel closed his eyes and took his nap. He snored loudly while he lied on the pillow. Even though his snoring was loud and annoying, Momo ignored him and turned his head to Doctor. After two minutes of clearing things up between them, they hugged each other. It was the end of them being enemies and the start of them being friends.
X_X_X_X
Deep in the woods was Yoh. Yoh was in a panic. He failed. He failed to secure the drugs and lost against Lucas and her crewmate Jen. He ran as fast as he could to the lifeboats hoping to escape the threat that was coming his way.
" I got to get out of here! He's coming for me! I have to get somewhere far away. I'll be safe if I can make it to Logue Town."
Just when Yoh thought he was in the clear, smoke flashed in front of him. Out of the smoke came the one man he feared most in the world. He was a tyrant with two horns on both sides, and one jutting from the back of his head, giving him a total of three horns.
" Logue Town you say," the tyrant said while Yoh quivered in his presence. " That would be pretty safe. But I can lead you somewhere safer. The place I'm leading you is…" In just an instant Yoh was killed. A sharp object sliced through him through the center of his body. He split in half and both his halves fell on the floor. "Hell. Rest easy in Hell, you worthless pirate."
The tyrant was about to leave the island. However, just when he was about to leave Umbrage's naked body raised from the man's very own shadow. The man was upset with Umbrage—failing to follow orders and losing against a pirate—but unlike Yoh he could never stay mad at him for long.
" They roughed you up, didn't they? It's so nice to see you're still alive though."
The man picked Umbrage off the ground and threw him over his right shoulder. The man carried Umbrage a few spaces forward. Standing on top of a shadow, he sinked into the ground. He and Umbrage were heading towards their next destination.
" Don't worry about today, Umbrage. When we reach the city of Alabasta, nothing will stand in our way. I, the fourth ranked Shichibukai, will kill anyone who gets in our way."
X_X_X_X_X
While Daniel and Momo were still sleeping, Razi was playing catch with Jen. Because they didn't have any rubber balls they had to use coconuts as balls. It was Razi's turn throwing the coconut. He stretched his hang back and threw the coconut at Jen. Jen caught the coconut, but his right arm fell off.
" Ah!" Razi screamed seeing Jen's arm fell off. " Jen, your arm fell off!"
" Hahaha," Jen laughed as he rubbed his head with his left arm. " Yeah, that happens to me sometimes. See, my arms, legs, and even my head are put together by stitches that are nearly invisible. Before I ate my Devil Fruit, my arms and my legs were cut off."
" That's awful!"
" It is. But as you might already know I have a sick sense of humor. Whenever I think about my past, I start laughing. Hahaha." Jen pulled out a needle and thread from his jacket. With great speed and precision he sewed his arm back. After it was sewed together he wiggled his hands. " See. Good as new. "
" That is cool. Hey, throw the coconut with your right hand. Throw me the coconut with your right hand."
" Okay. Fetch!"
Jen threw the coconut like it was a rugby ball. The ball spinned towards Razi as it was about to fall on him. However, before it did, Razi transformed into his wolf form, jumped using all four paws, and caught it using his mouth. When Razi landed back on the ground, he transformed into his wolf hybrid.
" Ran Re Ro Romething Rlse, Ren? ( Can we do something else, Jen?)" Jen mumbled with the rugby ball in his mouth.
" Sure. Do you want to go fishing?"
X_X_X_X
After a quick trip of getting a fishing rod from Lucas's boat, Razi and Jen travelled to the other side of the island and went fishing together. Jen was the one who was holding the fishing rod, and Razi sat next to him in his wolf hybrid form and wagged his tail watching the sea.
" When do we eat? When do we eat?" Razi said impatiently while he looked at the sea.
" Calm down, wolf boy," Jen said as he pushed on Razi's face trying to stop him from breathing on him. " Fishing takes time. And if keep being this loud, you're just going to scare the fish away."
" Aw, but I want to eat something." Razi got into his pouting face. He folded his ears, puckered his lips together so they looked like a fishes, and his eyes bulged up as they were shaking. " Can't I have something to eat, Jen?"
" Man your good. How do you know how to do that?"
Razi stopped making his face, his ears perked up, his eyes stopped shaking, said, " Years of practice. My brother Himura and Marco wouldn't give me a snack unless I made a cute enough face. Marco always told me he wasn't my real father and found me. But now he's dead, and it was the Shichibukai that killed him."
" You poor boy. Losing your father is horrible. Believe me, I know. And just like you, I was raised by a pirate but never knew my real father."
" You know. You and I are like brothers. I like spending time with you, Jen. You're not just like a brother to me, but you're also a very special friend to me."
"Friend? Nobody's ever called me that before. I spent most of my life before I met Lucas inside a cage. I never got to see the sunlight, and the only things I could call friends back then were the birds that flew into my window and another inmate of mine who left the asylum.. Then one day…I escaped."
Flashback:
Young Jen was running for his life. Behind him was a man wearing a lab coat with a scalpel in his right hand. Every second that Jen ran the man would slice his scalpel at him.
" Come back, precious boy!" The man shouted behind Jen's back. " Can't you see I'm just trying to help you? You have powers you've yet to understand, and I can unlock them for you."
" Leave me alone!" Young Jen shouted at the man. " I want my daddy! Daddy, where are you?"
Young Jen ran straight into a deserted village where most of the houses were burned and some of the original villagers' bodies were lying on the ground. Jen escaped by running into a destroyed building and crawled through a small door inside the building.
After leaving the village, he just continued to run. He ran, and ran, and ran as fast as he could. He ran so fast his lungs were swollen with sweat and he felt like he was going to explode. But no matter what pain he felt while running, nothing stopped him from trying to escape the madhouse he was trapped in.
Jen then tripped on something lying on the ground. Jen fell in a mud puddle and his face became covered in dirt. After falling down, he looked back to see what he tripped on, and it was too his great horror to see his former inmate lying face-up on the ground. His dark-skinned friend, his eyes were widened, and his mouth was open.
" Austin? Austin, is that you?" Austin didn't answer Jen at first. Jen grabbed Austin and held him up. He then shaked Austin trying to wake him up. " Austin. Austin, say something!" It appeared to Jen that Austin was dead. After realizing the sad truth, a single drop of tears rolled down both his eyes. " No! Don't leave me! I don't want to be alone! Please, speak to me!"
Flashback End:
" I guess you could say I was lonely before I met Lucas. I was one of your crewmates that knew her the longest. Even though she seems a little hard to deal with at first, she's actually very nice. I guess that's one of her good quotes."
" She sounds great," Razi smiled at Jen. " I wish I could make her on my crew, but I don't feel comfortable making other pirate captains my crew. And I would feel bad stealing their crewmates too."
" That's a good thing. I like people who consider other people's feelings. It makes them more admirabl—"
Jen's fishing rod started to shake. The line started to shake while whatever was under the water was pulling on the string. Jen pulled as hard as he could to get whatever was under the water out, but he wasn't strong enough for it.
" This thing is heavy! I don't think I can lift it!"
" I'll help you, Jen." Razi transformed into his human form and wrapped his arms around Jen's waist. Razi tugged on Jen's waist as he helped him. " I'm helping. I'm helping."
" Razi, I can do this myself. You don't have to help me."
" Nonsense. What kind of captain would I be if I didn't have a Nakama?"
" But I'm not part of your crew, Razi."
" That's okay. I still consider you too be one of my Nakama. And like all my Nakama, I will help you."
" R-Razi?"
With the combined strength of Razi and Jen they were able to pull out the creature that lurked in the ocean. It was a giant green scaled fish with two giant lobster claws. The fish was a Pincer Fish. The hook slipped out of the fishes mouth and he fell towards Jen and Razi.
" Oh no, I left my gun on the ship. And my powers don't work on living creatures. What am I going to d—"
" I'll take care of this, Jen!" Razi shouted triumphantly. Wolf ears perked out of his head, claws replaced his hands, and a tail came out of his rear end. Razi jumped in the air and slashed his claws at the fish. " Wolf Claw!"
Razi quickly scratched the Pincer Fish everywhere around its body. Jen couldn't even see Razi touch the fish. He was too fast. And when Razi touched the ground, he snapped his fingers, and the fish exploded into dozens of meat pieces. Razi got hyper at the sight of the meat and pranced around.
" Food! Food! Food!"
Razi may've been a human, but he was also a ravenous animal. He jumped back in the air, licked his lips, and swallowed the fish meat whole through his mouth. Jen's mouth dropped at the sight of Razi swallowing the meat. But instead of eating all of it, he landed back on the ground, and handed the meat too him.
" Do you want some, Jen? We both worked hard for it; we should both have some."
" Really? Are you sure you really want me to have some, Razi?"
" Uh-huh. Please have some. It will make me so happy."
" Well, if you say so. I guess I'll have some."
Jen grabbed the piece of meat and took a bite from it. As the meat touched his uvula, he salivated from his mouth. The taste was plentiful. It tasted like a firecracker exploded in his mouth, with buttermilk dripping out instead, and churned in his gulch like sugar.
" This tastes so good. I thought my taste bud were dead, but I can still taste it. It's delicious." Tasting the fish nearly brought tears to Jen's eyes, but he managed to hide them through his smile. " Hey Razi."
" Yes."
" Can we go back to Captain Lucas's ship? There's something I want to say to her."
X_X_X_X
Jen and Razi finally reached the beach. But when they got too Lucas's ship, they saw her talking with the ship captain with the red nose. The site of him was unsettling for both Razi and Jen. Then the captain turned his head to Jen and Razi, looked into their eyes, and pointed his finger at Razi.
" You. You with the bandana on your head. There's something I want to say to you."
X_X_X_X_X
Daniel and Momo were finally able to get out of bed. However, they still didn't have the strength to move on their own. Lucas's doctor had to carry them to her ship while they had their arms around his head.
" This is so humiliating," Daniel grunted while he moved with the doctor. " I'm a swordsman. How degrading is this?"
" It could be worse," Momo grunted while he was being carried with Daniel.
" How?"
" At least it's a stranger carrying us. If Razi saw us this weak, he'd never let it go."
" Okay, here we are," the doctor said as he dropped Daniel and Momo on the sand of the beach. " I'd like to carry you further, but you boys seem like you need to keep your pride. So I'll just give you this." The doctor threw a walking stick at Daniel, and Daniel gave out a weak " Ow". " Here. That should help you walk."
" You only gave us one," Daniel grumbled. " How are two people suppose to use one walking stick?"
" I don't know. I'm a doctor not a philamprothist. Our crew are on a very strict budget. "
" Fine. Momo, you grab the right and I'll grab the left. We'll help each other up."
" Hey, I want to grab the left."
" It doesn't matter. Just grab a something!"
"Fine, meanie."
Both Daniel and Momo's quadruped leg bones were both badly injured from the last battles they had. Without being able to use their legs, both Daniel and Momo grabbed the walking stick. As it turned out, Momo's hands were very slippery. Daniel slipped touching Momo's hands and crashed on his tendons. The pain Daniel felt…it was too invidiously unpleasant.
" I should've stayed in bed."
Instead of grabbing the walking stick, Daniel grabbed Momo's clothes. Momo moved with his walking stick towards Lucas's boat with Daniel dragging behind him. Only when they reached the shore, they did not see Lucas's boat, but a new kind of boat.
What they saw was a small clipper ship. Its size was 161. 3 ft 22.7 ft x 21 ft. The ship was made out of ordinary wood boards, the mast was seen in the center, no gun ports, the keel was seen in the shallow water, and in the front was a giant wolfs head. Razi sat on the wolf's head and smiled at both Daniel and Momo.
" Hey guys. Like the ship? It's our first pirate vessel. I think I'll call it the Golden Hope"
" Razi, where did you get that?" Daniel asked.
" Yeah, how'd you get something like that here? Did Lucas give it to you or something?"
" Not Lucas. The nice old man gave it to me. He says it's a present for me helping him find his crewmate Flinch. That's pretty nice of him, wouldn't you say? So what do you think?"
" It's small. And there are no guns on it. It's a piece of junk."
" I don't know about that, Daniel," Momo said. " Sure, the most it can carry is five people, but it's better than that raft we sailed on. So are we finally going to finally get off this island?"
" Please don't leave just yet," Lucas said. Daniel and Momo both turned around and saw Lucas and her whole crew standing behind them. " I haven't thanked you for saving me and my crew. Please let us thank you by letting you party with us."
" Your right," Razi said. "Tomorrow we leave. So tonight, we party."
" Hooray!"
X_X_X_X
Razi, Daniel, and Momo were having their very first party. At least Razi was the one having a party. Daniel and Momo were still heavily injured and couldn't even move their legs. They could only watch as Razi made a clown of himself.
Lucas's crew were able to get Razi to drink. After having five bottles, Razi was tipsy from the alcohol. However, he then started juggling the bottles. After thirty seconds of juggling empty bottles, he threw them in the air, and did a handstand. As the bottles fell on his feet he was able to juggle with them.
" This kid is so cool," one member of Lucas's crew said as he watched Razi juggle.
" He's so talented," another member of Lucas's crew said.
" How does he do that?"
" Wait, I'm not done yet. I'm taking things up a notch."
Razi jumped up, caught the bottles of alcohol, and then he threw them higher into the air. Razi jumped higher of the ground and transformed into his wolf hybrid form. Using only his tail, he wrapped around the bottles of alcohol, swinged his body around, and stepped on the bottles.
" What's he doing?" Daniel asked.
" I don't know," Momo said. " I've never seen him do anything like this before. "
" This is going to be good," Jen thought while he watched Razi. " I just know it."
After stepping on the bottles, Razi wrapped his wolf tail around each of the empty bottles. He shaked the bottles around, then he threw them higher into the air. While they were up above and Razi was falling down, he ripped his fingernails out.
" Wolf Wolf…" Razi blew the fingernails at the bottles. Surprisingly they moved as fast as a bullet, hit the bottles, and they all shattered on contact. " Nail Cannon!"
Small pieces of glass fell down from the sky above. The glasses were too small to scratch anyone and shinned beautifully in the sky. Everyone who watched the glass fall were speechless. Razi finally hit the ground, but used his tail as a trampoline to bounce up and landed on his feet.
" Tada!"
Everyone in Lucas's crew gave thundering applause after the glass landed on the ground. Even Daniel and Momo clapped, though it hurt them doing so. While Lucas was clapping for Razi, Jen walked behind her and tapped her shoulder.
" Captain Lucas."
Lucas turned around and smiled facing Jen, said, " Yes."
" Lucas, I'd like to resign from being a member of your crew."
" Huh? Whatever are you talking about, Jen?"
" After fighting with Razi, I realize I'm not meant to be on your crew. I just wanted to tell you I plan on using your life boats to leave, go to the nearest town, which is Logue Town, and I plan on getting my own crew. I hope you understand."
" I do. And I have something for you." Lucas pulled out her two revolvers and handed them to Jen. " Here. They'll work much better with you than they'll work with me."
" Your guns? I can't take these. These mean everything to you, Lucas."
" Don't worry about it." Lucas pulled out two revolvers that looked exactly the same as the one's Jen was holding. " See. It's not the guns that count, but it's the bullets you use. I wish you luck wherever you go, Jen. Now excuse me." Apparently, Lucas was also drunk. She walked up Razi, grabbed his arms, and pulled on them. " Dance with me, Razi. Let us dance the night away!"
" Huh? Wait, I don't think I should—"
Lucas didn't listen to Razi and pulled on his hand. Without thinking she spinned him around like he was her rag doll, whacked him a few times on the floor, then did a contra dance with him. A large bump popped out of Razi's head where Lucas had hit him.
" This girl is crazy," Daniel muttered as he looked at Lucas dance.
" Wahhhhhh!" Lucas's doctor cried beside Daniel. " I'm so happy. Lucas has been so stressed lately, I'm glad she's returned to her usual self."
" That's her usual self?"
" Excuse me," Doctor's voice said. Both Daniel and Momo turned to the left and saw Doctor and Flinch standing before them. " Hello. We're just here to say how sorry we are for how we behaved."
" Yes, I'm sorry for the cuts I gave you, white hair," Flinch said.
" My name is Daniel."
" Really? That's a pretty dumb name for a swordsman."
" Even dumber than Flinch?"
" Anyways, we both wanted to say how sorry we are, and we hope one day you can forgive us. Now I must leave for I must return to my village and settle things with my parents."
" And I must be leaving as well. I have a captain to look after."
" Forget that. Let's party together," Razi said, he sticked his head between Doctor and Flinch. Razi was smiling and rubbing their shoulder pads. "You'll feel better after you eat and drink something."
" But weren't we your enemies just yesterday?" Flinch asked.
" And I can't eat this food. I'm on a diet," Doctor said.
" Come on. Live a little. Everything's a lot more fun when you have friends to share them with. We're friends now, aren't we?"
" F-friends?" Both Doctor and Flinch said in unison.
" Yep. And as a friend, I say you should party."
Jen was the only one who wasn't partying. He was impressed with how Razi was able to get both Flinch and Doctor to join them partying. And while he was looking at them, he looked down at his revolvers and smiled.
" Thank you, Lucas. I promise the next time I see you on my journey to becoming captain, I'll make you smile."
X_X_X_X
Razi, Daniel, and Momo were loading crates with supplies Lucas gave them on their ship The Golden Hope. At least Daniel and Momo were loading. Razi was chuckling to himself and hanged upside down on the wolf head.
" Aren't you going to be helping us load, Razi?" Daniel asked as he was slightly irritated.
" Nope. Hahah—"
Razi stopped laughing. He saw both Lucas and Jen standing in front of him. Jen had a large green backpack on his back, the same one Usopp had when he left Syrup Village to join Luffy's crew, and they were both waving to them.
" I guess this is goodbye, Razi," Jen said as he waved goodbye. " I hope we can meet again when I sail the seas in hope of becoming a pirate captain."
" Why would you say something like that, Jen?" Razi asked.
" I-I don't know. It's just a simple farewell, ya know. I didn't think you'd take it so seriously."
" I mean, aren't you coming with us? You're a member of our crew, aren't you?"
" W-what? What are you talking about, Razi? We just met. I don't know if going for you is the best thing."
"Quit the sappy talk," Momo said with his arms crossed. " Come aboard. We need you more than you need us. So why don't you do us all a favor and join us."
" Guys…" Jen leaped with joy. He continued to leap with joy as he ran up to Razi's ship. " Yes! I'm finally a captain of my own crew!"
" Don't be stupid, Jen. I'm the captain."
X_X_X_X
Golden Hope sailed away with Razi, Daniel, Momo, and Jen. While they were sailing away, Lucas watched them on the shore. A tear rolled down her eyes as she remembered a precious moment of her past she had with Jen.
Flashback:
" Lucas, I'd like to introduce you to someone. His name is Jen. I found him scared out of his mind in an abandoned village with Luffy. Promise me you'll keep him company."
" Okay. Hi. My name is Lucas. And I will become a pirate captain just like my daddy when I grow up."
" It's nice to meet you, Lucas. When I grow up, I hope I can become your firstmate."
Flashback End
" Jen, good luck wherever you go."
X_X_X_X
Razi, Daniel, Momo, and Jen all had bottles of alcohol out. They banged their glasses together as they cheered at the same time.
" Well, cheers to Jen, and our boat and crew, and where we are headed," Razi said banging his glass with everyone else's.
" Cheers!"