Authors Note: We just got through our first major arc together. We've made it this far and it's incredible the amount of support and criticism that went into making this story so far.
We are going to calm down on the intensity with a few fluff chapters.
Might do a QnA if the viewers are interested in it, let me know if it might interest you.
Otherwise~
Enjoy The Chapter!
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Wealth, Fame, and Power! W. D. Gaster, The King of The Pirates, had all those and the rest of what the world had to offer! Through many battles and trials, he had reached the pinnacle of the world's virtues and had nothing left but an illness that plagued him.
He brought himself in and was held at a worldwide public execution. Before he was executed, a man from the crowd asked:
"Where did you hide all your treasure?!"
To which the King of Pirates smiled and said:
"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left the most important treasure in the world on an island! Go and find it! 'For the next pirate that finds the UnderPiece, will be claimed the new King of The Pirates!"
Those were his final words before he was executed. He smiled to his death.
With those words, the world was flipped upside down as he created The Golden Pirate Era! People and already existing pirates from around the works started to sail the seas in search of the treasure that W. D. Gaster claimed to be-
The UnderPiece!
It had been Twenty Years since, and people have yet to find the treasure he was talking about. Except for one girl, who is now going to change the world by storm for the sake of her people.
This is the story of Muffet D. Baker and her way to becoming Queen of the Pirates!
It had been about two days since the events that happened on StarDrop Island. After saving the island, the locals help them out before they would set off to the next island. The people of the city repaid them with extra food, extra clothing, money, and a log pose and map of the East Blue.
Log Poses were essentially compasses that show you the way to a specific island. The map was helpful too for showing them where one of the Grand Line entrances along East Blue was. Needless to say, they were a couple of islands away. Six to be exact.
Ralsei just woke up from her nap while working on the ship's pirate flag. She had been their honorary doctor, the first staple of the ship. With monstrous people like Muffet and Undyne as her crewmates, she had to pull her weight and impress them.
She was filled with Courage!
Ralsei began to finish her work on the flag. According to Muffet's crumpled piece of paper that was colored with crayon a decade ago, the flag was supposed to be a more intimidating version of her pet Fuhu. Which now would then become the crew's mascot.
The flag also had the eight different colored souls all circling the vicious cupcake in the middle and crossbones behind the cupcake. Wedging inbetween the souls in intervals of two.
The souls at the top of the cupcake before being cut off by the crossbones were Perseverance and Kindness. Figures. Then towards the right of the cupcake was Courage and Justice.
Ralsei found this ironic, the souls were set up exactly in order from the recruitment order...the scarier part was that this was decided a decade ago...does that mean that this foretold which person's soul was next. If that was the case, their next crew member would have a soul of brimming Justice.
She just chose to drop the subject, she was too groggy for overthinking. She then continued to paint.
The bottom two souls were Integrity and Monster.
Ralsei got to thinking. This would've meant that Muffet, ten years ago, knowing nothing about soul magic, perfectly predicted the alignment of her crew, so much so that she even predicted Ralsei having a soul change.
Ralsei shook her head and continued painting the last two souls.
Determination and Patience.
She laughed at the irony of Patience being the last to join.
However, according to Muffet's depiction of how the flag should look like, there were these souls that were blackened, all being black-colored souls. There were two, one in the bottom right corner of the flag and one in the top left. She didn't know what those meant.
After that, she was done with the flag. She brought it from her room to the deck of the ship. Where Undyne was there just lifting even more boulders.
Where does she keep getting those from?!
Ralsei ignored that and laid the flag out on the floor for everyone to see. Undyne immediately noticed and ran to it, dropping the boulders off in the ocean.
It was a sunny Thursday four o' clock. Undyne's sweat was dripping everywhere.
"Looks amazing Ralsei! You amaze me more every day." Said Undyne as she slapped Ralsei on the back as approval. Although it lowkey hurt her every time she did that, Ralsei knew that Undyne's heart was in the right place so she sucked it up.
"Thanks! Oh and uh...how did that talk go?" Ralsei said giving Undyne a shifty eye.
After that kiss stunt Undyne pulled back at StarDrop Island, she and Muffet had to talk about what they were from there. And after a considerable amount of talking...
Undyne sighed.
"She said she just wanted to be friends, and that she doesn't swing that way," Undyne said holding back a tear, desperately waiting for a response from the ship's doctor to make her feel better.
In reality, Ralsei had nothing for her except for a sorry look.
Undyne just shrugged.
"It's cool though, it'd be weird if a captain and first mate were together like that. I prefer a professional relationship between me and my captain anyways!" Said Undyne half in pain and a half bringing out her old navy side.
As soon as she said that, Muffet came bursting through the dining room door with a fresh batch of spider cookies.
Muffet had gone back to her regular attire. Her open black vest and a purple blouse, the black slip ones, and her jewelry. Her Spider Cowboy hat resting on the back of her neck via string.
She walked to them and handed them cookies while looking at their flag.
"Wow! It looks even better in person. I give you props Ralsei, this came out nice." Muffet said handing her a cookie.
Ralsei felt flustered over all the sudden praise.
"I-It's alright! Anything for the team." Ralsei said.
After about ten minutes of them appreciating the flag and the cookies. A seagull came by and dropped them off a newspaper.
Ralsei grabbed it.
"Oh the news came in early today-" Ralsei said as three sheets of paper gently landed on her lap when she lifted the newspaper.
Ralsei knew that it meant that new bounties were ushered. She picked it up quickly to see which dangerous foes awaited them on the sea so that they can be cautious.
A bead of sweat rolled down her head and she gulped.
"What's wrong Ralsei?" Said Undyne.
"I-It's our bounties!" Ralsei said not knowing whether to be proud of the bounties or be scared that people are going to actively hunt them now.
Undyne and Muffet's eyes lit up. With "Ooo Tell me!" faces.
Ralsei filled them while reading the cause of their bounties out loud from the newspaper.
"For the dismemberment and harm towards a Navy Captain, traitor to the navy, daughter of Morial the Immortal. The woman who destroyed a navy ship managed to bring the downfall of pending warlord Marshall Bronzio. Undyne the Undying has the bounty of...98,000,000 Million Dollars?!" Ralsei said in shock. That was a lot of money!
Ralsei then read her own.
"As an accomplice and established member of the same crew who sunk three navy warships and brought the defeat of Marshall Bronzio. Ralsei Lightner has the bounty of...23 Million!" Ralsei said in shock again. She was kinda peeved that her bounty wasn't as high as atleast Undyne's, but she fairly understood why. The higher of a threat you are to the navy, the more your bounty is raised. She knew she didn't pose much of a threat.
She then looked at Muffet's reasoning and bounty.
"As a one-of-a-kind creature, an accomplice and main attacker of the three navy ships. Helped with the defeat of the Navy Captain Silva Peers and was the one who delivered the killing blow on Marshall Bronzio. Student and protege of Frisk D. Remmurr, one of the five Emporers of the Seas and Captain of the Golden Flower Pirates. Muffet D. Baker's bounty is..." Ralsei gulped and dropped both the newspaper and the bounty.
They both asked her what was wrong.
"Muffet...your bounty is 120,000,000 Million!" Said Ralsei impressed with her captain.
Undyne picked up all the bounties for confirmation. She was right.
Muffet pumped all six fists in the air.
"Oh yeah! I'm moving up in the world!" She said excitedly.
Undyne scoffed.
"Well, be lucky you two got a good bounty photo," Undyne said as she handed both of them their bounties.
Muffet's bounty photo was her when she pointed up to the sky and to Undyne to tell her to leave the island dramatically. She was content with it, made her look badass.
Ralsei's bounty photo was her when she yelled to the light in the sky to break one of the tendrils with her courage. Ralsei was happy with hers too.
Undyne was depressed with her bounty photo.
It was her when she smacked into the ground after Marshall had hit her off the big tendril. She made an ugly face when she smacked against the ground and they just happened to catch that exact face.
She sighed sadly.
"It's not fair..." Undyne said as she was on all fours punching the ground lightly and sadly.
Muffet smiled, "I didn't know that he was a runner up to become a Warlord. The navy must be getting desperate." Muffet said thinking about how hard they were going to be targeted from now on.
Ralsei was still in deep shock from the amount their bounties held. If there were a million people with bounties, they'd shot from last to top 100,000!
They must be the most wanted people in the East Blue! Ralsei thought.
Undyne collected herself and glanced back at her bounty
"98 million? They must really want us, huh 'M'?" Undyne said in a chirpy voice looking back at Muffet who was also pleased with her bounty.
"I guess so dearie~," Muffet said with a giggle. She took another bite of the cookie.
"We should be expecting more Navy ships to trail us huh? If fighting Bronzio was anything at all, was a person we almost lost against if it wasn't for Ralsei." Muffet said turning from jittery to serious.
Undyne and Ralsei nodded.
"Then this means that we need to get stronger! That fight did make us a lot stronger, but we still need to push forward if we want to see our hopes and dreams through! We need to persevere!" Muffet said giving her crew motivation.
"Amen!" Undyne said pulling Ralsei into a headlock and nooging her. She just let it happen and gave Muffet a hard nod.
Muffet grabbed the flag and super jumped to the head of the mast. She then tied the new flag onto the top of the ship. Letting their pride, their Jolly Roger waving in the calm sea breeze.
Undyne and Ralsei didn't want to tell her that she placed the flag upside down, they just laughed it off and promised they flip it the right way later.
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Ralsei yawned, it was hitting sunset and she had been crammed in her room the entire day, trying to produce more vials of Perseverance, Determination, and now Courage. It took a bunch of resources to be able to make a slither of just Determination.
The stronger the soul was, the harder it was to naturally make. She would have to restock next town for more herbs and medicine and tonics to be able to craft a heft bunch.
Fuhu was snuggling against her leg for a while. And by leg, it was rubbing against her entire body. She felt that it was demoralizing knowing that the ship's pet was almost her height.
Although, besides that, Fuhu was a great help around the room. It was super great at balancing for some reason...freakishly good. It could balance stack singular vials on its head while running laps around the room. It awed her.
Fuhu was essentially the nurse of the ship for how much it loved to assist her. It had this bond with her ever since Ralsei used Fuhu for his venom to make the web suits.
She was still using him as a test subject to see what soul it possessed and would its venom be useful for more than its intended purpose. She couldn't figure out the pet's soul, nor found any other uses for the venom. So she just let Fuhu continue as a nurse.
In order to pull my weight on this ship, since I don't have any Devil Fruit abilities or anything superhuman. So to fulfill my worth, I'll be the best support for them! I owe them atleast that...but...
Ralsei thought as she remembered how her courage was able to break that entire bronze tendril.
Maybe on the side I should focus on my Courage ability.
Ralsei looked to her left to see Fuhu sucking on one of the vials, it was Patience.
"H-Hey! Let go of that!' Ralsei yelled as she wrestled the cupcake spider.
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"Hey! Ralsei! If you had to pick a Devil Fruit, which would it be? A Zoan, A Paramecia, A Logia, or a Gencios?" Undyne said with her mouth full of half-chewed chicken.
They were eating dinner and were just passing the time with conversation.
Ralsei thought about it. She was a goat-woman already through genetics. So a zoan would make her look weirder than she already did.
"I actually wouldn't want a Devil Fruit, I want to be able to swim...but if I was forced...I guess Gencios, I don't want anything too flashy or overly powerful. I just want something useful for my taste." Ralsei said innocently and honestly.
Muffet and Undyne respected her decisions and nodded as Undyne took another hefty bite of her chicken.
"I already have one, but if I were to get a different one, I would want a Devil Fruit that allows me to control metal, sorta like magnetism! Always was fond of that as a concept." Undyne said with a hopeful gleam in her eye.
Muffet giggled and shove almost the whole plate down her throat and swallowed it all in one go. Muffet ate a lot. A lot. She could eat everything in the fridge and then say she's hungry twenty minutes later.
"Well, hopefully, you'll meet someone in the future who maybe has that Devil Fruit, hell, we'll recruit them, how about that?" Said Muffet placing her middle right hand on her shoulder and using her top right hand to pat her fluffy head.
Undyne's head of hair reached levels of poofiness that always made Muffet happy. Whenever she and Undyne were alone, she would request to pat her head and play with her hair.
Even Fuhu likes her big set of hair and slept on her head once.
After that talk about the kiss on StarDrop island, although she had to decline Undyne's confession, the talk actually made her appreciate Undyne as a person a lot more.
Muffet was usually a straightforward person and always wanted things her way. She never usually taken into account the thoughts, opinions, and feelings of others whenever she had to make a decision.
However, with Undyne, she actually took time to consider her in every aspect before making decisions and would more likely now ask for her opinion before moving on.
She was more compassionate with her to compensate for tarnishing her first mate's desires.
Undyne knew what Muffet was doing...it meant the world to her. They smiled at each other for a while.
Ralsei coughed to get them to refocus.
"O-oh of course um. I honestly like the Fruit I have, having six arms with this ability allows me to over-maximize the amount of damage I can do as opposed to having two arms. However...I wouldn't mind a poison fruit, it also suits me as a spider, making my venom extra dangerous huehuehue~" Muffet said with a childlike giggle.
They all conversed about other kinds of abilities that they'd find cool.
Ralsei did end up admitting that she wouldn't mind having a glass ability so that she doesn't have to keep buying new vials.
However, that one was confirmed taken, for obvious reasons.
They had talked about how the whole fight against the Marine Captain, which they now know from the newspaper earlier this morning, is named Silva Peers. Ralsei felt a bit bad making Undyne retell the tale.
However, hearing the part about Undyne's mother taking control of her body using her dead Determination intrigued her.
"Hey Undyne...how strong was your mom?" Ralsei said hoping that would lighten Undyne's mood.
It worked. She grew a giant sharp-toothed grin at her and stood on the table posing as if she was telling a Viking story. Muffet loved when Undyne was motivated and exuberant, it fitted her more than being broody and more muscle-bound.
"She was a beast! The youngest person to ever be Fleet Admiral at age 38! She had no Devil Fruit ability, which means that she was throwing down with gods with no powers. She did have a lot of Determination; coming back home with scars and then watching them heal up as she saw me. Although, she was barely home due to her position." Undyne said proudly of her mom and proud of herself through proxy.
Muffet and Ralsei leaned in interest.
"Although she was the figurehead of the Navy, her best friends were mostly the Emporers! Goldenbeard and W.D. Gaster being her closest ones! She always had this black armor set custom made by the legend Dr. Alphys herself." Undyne said expecting "ooo"'s and "whoa..."'s.
Which she did receive.
Ralsei spoke up.
"Hey, I thought Dr. Alphys was just a legend?" Ralsei said.
"Nope! She exists, I've seen her myself! Did she look...weird? She always wore heavy and baggy clothing so I could never see most of her. But she does exist I can tell you that!" Undyne said even prouder.
Dr. Alphys was indeed a legendary scientist, constructing automatons and gadgets that we're a hundred years ahead of their time.
"Her armor was black and seemed to be so invincible that a seatrain would stop in its tracks upon impact! Its design was merged between a dragon and a shark. My mom was a Fishwoman, more specifically a shark woman." Undyne said finishing her bragging session.
Muffet seemed intrigued.
"So you're a shark woman too?" Said Muffet interested.
Undyne gave her a weird and thoughtful look.
"Well, I'm more of a piranha, barracuda at best!" Undyne said with a hearty laugh. Everyone laughed.
More went by and they ended up talking about relationships, they refrained to ask questions about that to Undyne.
"So Muffet, what kind of person are you looking for?" Ralsei said with a bit of flavor behind those words. This was a crew of only girls so far, the only male was the pet that couldn't speak, so they could talk about these things openly. Except for Undyne.
"Well dearie~ I don't want to be in a relationship right now, nor do I think I ever will, I'm more focused on my goals and I think that being in a relationship would hinder that process a lot. However...I would shoot for a man who is just like me, if I and my partner are alike then even if we have dreams to shoot for, we'd respect and help each other reach them. That's what I think anyway." Muffet said as she ended it by sipping her spider tea.
Undyne and Ralsei stared at her. Muffet never said an independent intelligent thing in her life, much less words of wisdom. However, she seems to have her priorities straight. They noted that.
Now. Muffet and Undyne's eyes gleamed of their soul color and slowly turned to Ralsei with faces of pure bliss and wanting.
"Now Ralsei...spill the beans...what kind of men are you into?" Said both of them in unison.
Ralsei knew she wasn't escaping this time. She got flustered and tipped her hat over her face to hide her blush.
"U-uhm, I uh, like a confidant and funny man. Race, height, appearance, or hobby doesn't matter to me. I just want someone who I can lean on." Ralsei said quickly.
Muffet and Undyne nodded respectfully.
Ralsei let out a deep sigh.
"You guys are evil!" She said playfully.
"Yeah but we're your evil guys." Both of them said laughing.
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Ralsei took off her hat, folded her glasses, and put her coat on the coat rack. It was around the time of night where she would continue with her healthy sleep schedule. Ralsei always wore a black T-shirt that was too big for her and striped shorts of white and blue.
His black fur rustled with the breeze that flew in from her room's window. She always liked to have a backdraft while she slept.
She grabbed a blanket from one of her cabinets and picked a corner to lay in.
She closed her eyes to try and get some sleep. After a few minutes, her door opened slowly.
She looked up and saw a groggy Undyne with her eyepatch off. She had to let her eye socket get air to keep it clean. It looked...weird and gross, but since it was dark she couldn't see much.
She had always wanted to ask Undyne what happened to her eye.
"Hey Ralsei...can I sleep with you?" Undyne said with a tired and deep voice. Fuhu sleeping peacefully on top of her head. This almost made Ralsei burst out laughing.
"Sure nerd~" Ralsei said teasing Undyne.
"If I wasn't sleepy I'd kick your ass," Undyne said rubbing her eye and walking towards the corner Ralsei was in.
They had cuddled in a way that Ralsei was sleeping on Undyne's body like a beanbag. Their height difference was that big to pull that off. Ralsei was 4'5 and Undyne was 6'2. Fuhu was still sleeping on her head with Undyne leaned against the wall.
While they were fast asleep, a cute giggle was heard. And a pillow made of the web was made behind Undyne's head to keep her comfortable.
"Nighty night Dearies~"