A Firecracker and a Straw Hat

by Grace More

Shanks has always been alone. Even growing up on the pirate king's ship. While everyone else had writing of the first thing, their soulmate will say to them on their wrist he had none. Caption always said he or she had not been born yet, but he was now 25 with no writing still. Shanks has given up ever finding his other half. Until he did have writing on his wrist.

4. Of stories and adventures

Luffy's p.v.o

Time passes like the winds of the season's change. Filled with stories and laughter. Joy and hope, but as they say, all things must come to an end.

I think that after two years, shanks is going out to sea for longer and longer, and while the crew and he are happy, they are getting angsty. TrappedCagedNotFree The wind and sea whisper in my ear. Your time is almost up. Set him free soon. Then you must make your way up to the top and meet him again. I ask when time and time again, and the only response I get is, You will know.

I think as the leader of the mountain bandits comes in and damages the party bar that the time is soon. I can't help but feel resentHatewhywhywhyareyoumakinghimgo Well. I don't know what I was feeling. They ask for demand's sake and make fun of my other half. I am bursting at the seams with anger. Until I hear that laugh and remember his stories about how he lives his life with joy and to let the hate go as long as the people that are precious to you are safe. I also hear the birds and trees murmur to calm and to trust.

The bandits leave, and shanks set out to sea again.

All is good. It is calmer and quieter when he is gone. Even the voices that I hear are less active when The carrier of the crown. Shanks is gone.

One week

It takes one week for that snivelling greasy fool of a man to come back. Makino greets them with a strained smile. The voices yell danger protect, run get help.

A gun is placed on her temple. Everything goes still. I don't know how much time has passed. What I do know is the gun is on the floor, and my fist is black and flying towards the bandit's face. It lands, and I am running. The bandits leave Makino and start chasing me. We get to the forest. The trees protecting me as I weave through them. They yell the way Left-right-jump-straight-faster. I keep running, but I am not fast enough. I tripped on my own two feet, bleeding and scraped from running barefoot in the forest. I bang my head on a rock I fall on.

Everything goes blank again until I see a foot on my face. Taste the salt in the air. We are at the harbour, and I can see from the corner of my eye shanks and the crew with looks of utter rage. That is wrong. He would be happy, smiling, safe, warm. I think and remember that when I smile, it makes him happy. I muster up a smile, and it seems to make it worse. That's bad, I think.

Everything goes black after that.