Chapter 52: Pets

Dragon – Dragon

Rose – Rosella

Skull with scares – Shanks

Top hat – Sabo

Ace card – Ace

Cigarette – Benn

Bullet – Yasopp

Spotted headband – Makino (LOL I forgot for a moment what this one stood for)

Windmill – Whoop Slap and/or the rest of the villagers

Bead with curls – Dadan

Orange –Nami

Three swords – Zoro

Wheelchair – Kunia

Pot with swirls – Sanji

Long sword – Mihawk

The winner to this is LazyFoxLover…you are the lucky winner that gets to pull my finger and watch the sparkles fly everywhere

Oh and because today is my birthday I'm giving everyone gift so that you all appreciate that I was born into this world. LOL


Shanks felt his eye twitch as he stared down at his chest at the bright green tree frog, he sighed and picked the animal up rolling over and nearly lying on top of the large purple tiger, he stared at the tiger and placed the frog on its head, then he sat up and glanced at the floor, so he won't stand on any kind of animal, but he found a turtle walking slowly over his bed room floor. Stepping over the animal he walked into his bathroom before walking back out and away from the large snake. He stumbled out of his room and sprinted to the gallery to find his crew huddled in one corner as the different species of birds, monkeys, cats, dogs and things that didn't fit under ANYTHING, making a mess. When the crew spotted Shanks they ran over to him, even Benn and begged him to do something about all the animals that they keep picking up at each island that they pass, sometimes they get more than one.

Shanks rubbed his head and jumped when a possum landed on his red hair, making itself at home, it's tail curling around his neck.

"Why don't you just change the name of the crew to the animal pirates?" Someone sarcastically said in the background. Shanks glared and dumped the possum onto his head before turning around and finding the little eleven year old. He searched the ship from top to bottom and found no sign of her before he turned fearful eyes towards the island…she wouldn't…no she would…oh shit.

Shanks ran into the gallery and told the crew the plan…soon cages appeared and they spent the rest of their day catching every single animal on the ship and shoving them into a cage before waiting for Luffy on the deck. When Luffy did show up she's got a white animal on her shoulder, thats all they could make out before she jumped onto the ship a huge grin on her face. The animal however had caught their eyes; it's got huge black eyes that take up most of its furry head, possum like tail, monkey hands and arms, and bird legs and feet.

"This is White, can I keep him? Please?" She asked looking at the crew, the crew stared at the new animal then towards Luffy who was staring at them in a hopeful way, they were about to cave into the sweet girl…until they remembered that they don't want any more animals on the ship…no they didn't want animals on the ship at all.

"No." Shanks said, Luffy looked shocked at the unexpected turn, before her face melted into that of her about to cry like face.

"Why not?"

"Because we are not having any more animals on the ship."

"But…" Luffy's eyes looked around and she didn't see any of her pets, not one. "Where are they?"

"In the gallery." Luffy dashed towards the eating room and slammed the door opened finding all her pets stuffed into cages. The thing on her shoulder jumped and walked around the cages peering into them.

"You put them into cages?" She screamed making the crew wince; Shanks took a deep breath and got ready for the on slaughter that is about to come from what he has to say.

"The animals are going; I don't want any kind of animal on my ship, that thing, the thing on your shoulder is going the animals in the cages are going. And they are not coming back, and you will not be getting or collecting anymore animals." Luffy turned around on her heels with murderess eyes glaring up at Shanks, Shanks stared right back in his captain mode, Luffy crossed her arms over her chest. "No, they are going and you don't get a say, the crew has already voted and they all want the animals gone."

Luffy's eyes turned wide and watery then her gaze locked onto something behind Shanks, the red haired captain looked behind him to see the crew standing behind him, all of them had different degrees of guilt on their faces. The longer she stared at the crew the more eyes came out of their mouths and they ended up on the floor with waves of guilt flooding from them.

"Well…umm…" Yasopp stammered, Luffy turned her gaze onto Shanks after he had finished what he had to say. "They…umm can well, stay…I mean their not…hurting anyone."

"See they want to…"

"No, they are going." Luffy turned her puppy look onto Shanks and he felt his heart squeeze painfully in his chest, but on the outside his eyes narrowed down at the eleven year old.

"But Shanks…"

"Yeah but captain…" Shanks didn't even look behind him, because he knew that his crew had the same expression on their faces as Luffy did, and he wouldn't be able to handle that many puppy eyes.

"NO!" He growled out in his that's finial tone, Luffy knew that tone, she hung her head and nodded in a feeble way giving the white thing to Shanks and dashing to her room the slamming of her door could be heard through the whole ship. Shanks sighed and turned to face his heart broken crew and he glared at them. "You're the ones that asked me to do it, and we spoil her too much…GET THE ANIMALS OFF MY SHIP!"

"Aye…captain." They said dragging their feet as they did what Shanks asked…demanded…of the crew. Benn placed a hand on Shanks's shoulder when all the crew had left the gallery and Shanks turned his face towards Benn, tears and snot running from his eyes and nose dripping from his chin. Benn patted Shanks before taking the white thing and going up onto deck and throwing it towards the island where it screeched in outrage.


Two week later on some random island that the Red haired pirates have landed on, Shanks stared at the two small creatures. They were under skinny and missing parts of their fur, one of them even had a chunk taken from its ear. Two small round balls, one is overly fluffy, orange with a black belly while the other one was fury with white fur and a black belly and a patch of orange over its right eye. The one with the patch and missing ear part had its fur fluffed up and was growling at Shanks in a threatening way, when suddenly another cat turned up and rolled into the other two kittens, this one was black with a patch of orange on its head and tail tip, with white feet.

Shanks stared down at the three kittens and the grin on his face grew even more, he bent down and picked up the playful kitten that had rolled into the others and held it up to his face.

"You are going to become a fine rat catcher…OUCH!" Shanks looked down at his legs were both the cats had latched onto his skin and drawing blood, growling, hissing and yowling up at him, Shanks snorted and awkwardly walked back to his ship, the kittens hanging from his legs and Shanks was having trouble holding onto the ball of energy with one hand.

The crew noticed right away the little body's stuck to Shanks like super glue and they stared at him with knowing smirks, Benn walked up and picked up the fluffy on holding it up to his face…

"We'll have to de-flea them…and give them good baths." Shanks laughed and sat the playful kitten down. "Wasn't it you who said we spoil her too much?"

"Ahh, but cats are useful for a ship, they catch the rats, you know rats could eat threw wires and other important parts of the ship and eventually sink us…" Shanks sighed as he shook his leg out, trying to get the kitten off his leg. "Okay so maybe I'm spoiling her…but wook at dare widdle waces."

Shanks said in a baby talk voice as he ripped the bugger off his leg, and shoved it into Benn's face, Benn stared at the kitten as he clawed and bite Shanks's hand.

"Yes…cute…you're washing them." Shanks's face dropped in horror, then his face lit up at he spotted Yasopp trying to sneak away, Shanks walked over to the man.

"YASOPP, my good friend, you have to wash the kittens."

"But I was…"

"Captains orders." Shanks said dumping the mean kitten on Yasopp's head, Yasopp cried out in pain as the bugger dug it's claws into his scalp and held on, the fluffy one decided that it might as well do it too, and jumped onto Yasopp leg with claws out…the playful one had gone up into Yasopp's pants and was running around.

It took a few hours to get the kittens clean and fed but they were flea free…

"What do we do with them now?" Yasopp questioned, Shanks grinned and scooped them up with his one arm and jogged down the hall, he knocked on the door and Luffy opened it. Her dark eyes looked up at Shanks before her eyes landed on the kittens. A huge smile bloomed over her face and Shanks wished he had ear plugs to block out the screams.

"These are the powerful rat catches and they need a trainer…you are to look after the three of them and give them great powerful male names." Luffy nodded her head as she grabbed the kittens from Shanks's arm and slammed the door in his face, she put them on her bed and stared at them, the one with half an ear was hissing at her, standing in front of the other two, the fluffy one was keeping an eye on the kitten that was rolling around…

"You're Sage." Luffy said pointing at the fluffy one; its head seemed to look at her in wonder. Before Luffy pointed at the hissing on and with a grin named it Adan, the kitten stopped hissing and looked at Luffy strangely, Luffy ignored it and pointed to the last kitten. "And you can be…Leo."

What happened after she had named them is something that the crew finds both fascinating and frightening, is that a black charm appeared on her anklet, it was one of three kittens with a letter carved into their chests…a letter of their names.


How corny…really what was I thinking…oh yeah that's right I wasn't…well Luffy got her pets and the crew has three fine mighty rat catches and one of them aims to be the king of the rat catchers XD

Sage is a blue/purple flower, Adan means fire in some other langue and Leo the lion, lions are the king of the jungle… not one of my best chapters…sorry about that.