-Chapter 2-
Axew's POV
I open my eyes. I'm lying on a wooden deck, some kind of ship. I clamber to my two-toed feet. I feel a prod in my back, so I turn around, confused. Four humans are staring at me, curiously. A man in a straw hat, a man with a long nose, a blonde haired guy with a cigar and an orange-haired lady. Straw hat pokes me again. "Could you cook it, Sanji?" the man with the long nose asks the smoking man in a suit. The smoker, or Sanji, as Long Nose calls him, looks at me, puzzled. "I don't know. I've never seen anything like it. I'll try."
This "Sanji" reaches for out for me. "They're gonna eat me!" I think. "No chance!"
As Sanji bends down to pick me up, I scratch him across the face with sharp claws. "Yew-axew!"
The cook yelps in pain as I scuttle below deck.
General POV
As the creature escapes below deck, Usopp and Luffy burst out laughing. "You got beaten by that lizard, Sanji!" giggles Usopp. "He got you good, Sanji!" laughs Luffy in agreement.
Sanji turns around in rage, to see Zolo smirking at him. Sanji rushes downstairs.
Nami rolls her eyes and walks away to check her maps.
"Where is that stinking lizard?" mutters Sanji wiping blood from his face. "I'm gonna boil him up into a stew!"
As he stomps through the hallway, he hears a crash in the cannon room, so he slams the doors open.
Axew's POV
I'm not having a great day so far. First, I fell out of the sky. Second, I landed on some weird boat. Third, I have no idea how I got here. Yesterday, I was in the village, and now, I'm here. Wherever "here" is. Somehow I suspect I'm far from the village. And, some weird blonde guy with the cigarette wants to eat me.
As I run downstairs, I search for a room to hide in. All the doors are closed and I'm too small to reach the handles, but it won't exactly be the stealthiest idea to smash them open.
In my desperation, I spot one door that's slightly ajar. I wriggle through it and jump into one of the black metal cylinders, knocking a few tar covered orbs over on the way.
I curse silently. How much noise did I make? Suddenly, Sanji bursts in. "I know you're in here. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. You surrender and we'll let you live." He's obviously lying. He wants to cut me up either way.
I say nothing. "Oh, well." he shrugs. "The hard way it is!" I don't think he'll lose any sleep over cooking me!
General POV
Sanji begins his search of the cannon room. First, he lifts the crate of cannon balls. "Nope, not here!" he says, taking sadistic pleasure in slowly hunting down Axew.
He peers down a cannon barrel. "Not here, either!" He tries another one. "Boo! Oh… nothing." he groans getting bored.
Axew POV
He's been searching for a while. Maybe he'll… Uh oh. I think he's about to check this one. I smell his cigarette smoke. I feel a tilt. Huh? Then a warm sensation growing closer and closer behind me. And a hissing. A Seviper? Oh no! He's going to fire the cannon with me in it!
General POV
After searching for thirty minutes, Sanji is getting tired. He leans against one of the cannons he hasn't searched. "I'll check this one in a minute." thinks Sanji.
The cannon tilts as Sanji rests his full weight against it. "Crap!" he cries out in surprise, jumping to his feet. Unfortunately, he knocks a few cannonballs onto his feet.
He yells out in pain and then covers his mouth. "What if Nami-swan hears my cowardly whining! I must catch this lizard for her sake!" he whispers to himself deliriously.
He gets up and leans over the cannon to inspect its contents. However, in doing so, he drops his cigarette. Searching for it on the floor, he realises it has dropped on the cannon and lit the fuse. "Crap!" he utters one last time before the cannon sends its passenger smashing up to the deck!
-end of chapter 2-
Someone told me that Zolo is actually called Zoro. This is in the anime only, in the manga he's called Zolo. Just thought I'd clear that up. Also, as my direct source material is the manga, I'll be skipping, or unaware of, all filler arcs and characters. The Sea Kings that appear in the Calm Belt are called Neptunians, but I thought I might as well add that in. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter!
