A/N: This work was first published on 4 Oct 2021 on AO3. Yes I forget to post it on ffn for a year. Below is the original author note from AO3

We are finally here! You see, this was my first idea for the Old World series but I had trouble finishing it and then I started adding other parts about Chop Chop Fruit so I'm only posting it now and I cannot be happier! This is also the reason why it is called Chop! Chop! and not the alternative. I had this in my head for so long I cannot name it any other way. Hope you'll enjoy it :D

One Piece:

CHOP! CHOP!

The stories from the Old World series

by Lucynda Raciak


| Chop! Chop! |

Ever since Buggy got 'decapitated' the boy decided to test his powers more.

In front of Shanks.

ALWAYS.

It started the next day after the incident. Shanks just finished washing the deck. He turned around only to see his best friend walking towards him while slashing his hand off with a knife! He screamed and almost fainted.

Buggy raised his head when he heard him. He blinked as if he didn't understand what just happened. A second later his eyes shined with recognition.

"Oh, my Ocean!" laughed Buggy "Your face was priceless!"

He was laughing so hard he was lying on the ground while his hand was still floating in the air. Shanks felt his face go red in anger.

"Stop doing that, you big red nose!"

"Oh, you just didn't!" Buggy said as he reattached his hand to the rest of his body.

"I did! Stop doing that!"

Suddenly Buggy's face lit up and in his eyes appeared the familiar sly grin.

"You know if you hate my nose so much…" Shanks really hated where this was going. "I'm going to get rid of it." he said and slashed a knife through his nose. Right in front of Shanks' face.

"DAD!" the redhead screamed running away. Ever since they became 13, both he and Buggy tried to always call Roger 'Captain' but when they were emotional they jumped right back to 'dad'. Roger was always embarrassed when that happened but it was also a sign for him that his boys were distressed.

"What happened, Shanks?" he asked. He wasn't very worried as he felt no unknown presence around the ship.

"Buggy is going around cutting off his body parts!" he yelled pointing at his best friend. Roger sweatdropped seeing Buggy laughing his ass off in the background.

"Well Shanks…" he started not knowing how to explain to the boy that this was going to be a norm from now on. "You cannot really expect Buggy to stop. He needs to master this ability so it can be useful."

Shanks looked at him betrayed.

"Then, at last, make him stop doing it in front of me!" he insisted. Putting the trauma of seeing his best friend's decapitation aside, Shanks was creeped out by the ability. Show him gore, fine. Rotting corpses? Easy! Non-consensual, painful bodily mutilation? That's just sad.

Buggy's body parts floating? Nope, niet, nein, nada!

Roger was ready to agree to Shanks' request when Rayleigh came from the forecastle, apparently overhearing their conversation.

"And what if he will need to use his ability in a battle, Shanks? Both of you and everybody on this ship, really, need to get used to it, whenever you like it or not. Pirate life is not for the weak of heart." he declared and gave his captain an intense look.

"I need to agree with him, Shanks." Roger said and Shanks knew this was the end of the discussion.


Buggy was testing his abilities everywhere.

In their sleeping quarters: After he chopped off both of his feet to fly on his bunk bed Inu and Neko decide to sleep with Oden and Toki.

"What a bunch of wusses!" laughed Bullet.

On the deck: He would cut off his limbs and wash different parts of the ship simultaneously jumpscareing half of the crew.

"Stop doing this, you little brat!"

"It's called efficiency, Taro!"

In the infirmary:

"Where is your arm, child?"

"I'm checking if I will have a sensory loss over a long period of time if I have my body parts separated. Bloodwork and all that."

"Could be dangerous."

"That's why I'm here, Dr Crocus."

"Right. And how is it going?"

"45 minutes and still strong!"

And now there was the party:

Music was playing, food was delicious, Shanks couldn't have been happier. Then he saw Buggy standing on the podium and knew he was going to hate it. He just knew.

"Who wants to see me juggle?!"

"WHA-?"

"What? Buggy is juggling?"

"Didn't you say you're not going to do any circus tricks anymore?"

Shanks was just as surprised. Ever since the boy joined he decided to never perform any circus tricks ever again so everyone was curious what the boy had in store. Shanks was the only one to see Buggy perform before and decided to sit along with the crew despite his initial feeling. After all, the clown boy was excellent at juggling.

Buggy took three sizable melons and threw them in the air. He juggled them for a few turns and then took out another melon. And after a series of juggling four of them took out the fifth one.

Everyone clapped. They could tell it was only the beginning of the show.

He then took out five of his knives and started juggling them slowly adding them without even stopping until all twelve were flying in the air.

He then stopped and bowed as the crew clapped again.

He repeated the trick but this time with flaming torches. Roger looked slightly uneased fearing for the boy's safety but he didn't stop the show.

"Now how about combining it?" asked Buggy, making the crew go wild!

"DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!"

And Buggy did. He started by juggling one melon, two knives and one torch and slowly he added more and more making the crew scream. Until…

"Now the finale!" Buggy yelled and suddenly one of the knives cut off his head. The crew went deadly still and with wide eyes looked as the head joined the other objects in the juggling game. It travelled in circles for the next few laps and finally Buggy finished the show by making all items drop: melons into a neat pyramid, knives impaled the wood under his feet, the torches returned to the stand on the mast still lit on fire and the head dropped on the neck returning to the body.

He looked at them proud of himself.

Crocus was the only one clapping. He seemed pretty excited - very different from his usual demeanour.

"This was the best thing I have ever seen!"

"Thanks, Dr Crocus!"

"Come on, guys! That was amazing!"

"Sure it was." responded the crowd and slowly everyone seemed to share their "enthusiasm". Meanwhile, Roger was still on his hands and knees holding his heart.

"I swear to deep blue waves... I'm going to die out of a heart attack…" he muttered under his breath.

Let's just say that nobody was very excited to see Buggy juggle ever again!


CHOP!

"Buggy!"

CUT!

"No!"

SLASH!

"STOP!"

This time Buggy and Bullet, that traitorous bastard, were sitting in the canteen and playing five finger fillet. Apparently, both were still perfecting their techniques because the fingers were flying every time one of them stabbed Buggy's palm.

Shanks was looking at Bullet with every bit of hatred he could muster. The bastard should be on his side, dammit! What happened to 'annoying clown' and 'cool bloodstain'! Since when Bullet was on Buggy's side! Traitor!

"Oh come on, bloodstain! It's a lot of fun!"

"Yeah, tomato head." Buggy sent him a shit-eating grin. He didn't even look where the knife was lending. "If you want we can spar later. You can even slash me in two!"

"NO!"

"I swear to Great Blue, since when you don't want to have fun, bloodstain?"

"THIS is NOT fun!"

"We can always change the game." said Buggy with a sly smile.

Bullet looked intrigued at the boy.

"What do you have in mind?"

He turned around to the bag that was lying on the floor giving both Bullet and Shanks an opportunity to look at the back of his head… where there was a big hole instead of his skull. He turned around and smiled at them. In his hands was his own brain.

"Brainstorming!"

Bullet decided to sleep with Toki and Oden as well.


"Can you PLEASE! Stop doing THAT!"

"Oh, come on, Shanks. It's just a nail to the eye, stop being a baby!" said the irritated clown boy while inserting a rusty nail into his eye socket.

Spencer next to them started choking. The dinner started half an hour ago but most of the crew barely touched their food. Toki left with the kids some time ago, excusing herself with Hiyori needing a dipper change. Obvious bullshit. The only ones done with their food were Crocus and Buggy. The rest of the crew looked either stone-faced, mildly disturbed or completely freaked out at the young Devil Fruit user.

"Maybe you should constrict your practising to your free time, shouldn't you Buggy?" asked Rayleigh carefully not looking at the kid. The food seemed weirdly hard to swallow today.

"Oh come on, Mr Ray!" said the young Devil Fruit user "I need to confirm all my theories. It's essential in combat! Like would it hurt if someone smashed my brain into pieces? Because it's not a slash but still pieces are pieces, right?"

A few of the pirates looked ready to puke at the image. Bullet started rocking back and forth repeating 'brainstorming'. Rayleigh felt his food tasting weird.

"Also do needle syringes work anymore - I mean it's a piercing not slashing. If someone decided to impale me on spikes would I die a gruesome death or would I be able to prevent it?"

Ah yes, impaling, not disturbing at all. What was that child reading to have these creative thoughts? Rayleigh was going to have a long and thoughtful talk with Isaac and Spencer about their little ship library.

Only Crocus seemed to actually look thoughtful.

"Can I actually chop-chop out a section of my body in the shape of a bullet if someone decides to shoot me? Hey, Petermov, can I borrow your rifle after dinner?"

Rayleigh's face was completely green at this point.

"Yeah, Mr Ray" the first mate was surprised to hear Shanks speaking.

He looked to his left where the read-head was sitting. His face was just as green as the first mate's but a shit-eating grin was proudly plastered to his face.

"We cannot stop Buggy's progress! After all, the pirate life is not for the weak of heart."


A/N: btw, if you're wondering why is Bullet sleeping with Toki and Oden it's because my headcanon says he hugs Inu and Neko like plush toys when he sleeps and it helps with a trauma lol