A/N: Ha, I hate milk too! Course I also ate water too...I don't care what anyone says, it tastes nasty! I wonder if I hate them because they contain no sugar...? Oh well. Hm.
"If someone talks in all italics but still in quotes like this..." then that means they are speaking in Japanese! In my original version of this on my computer, they are talking in the actual Japanese words, but I don't trust my Japanese enough to post it as-is. Sorry, but you'll have to deal with it!
To make sure Luffy didn't run off before they decided when to meet, Nami made sure to tell them BEFORE they got to the town. They decided to meet back at the ship in a couple of hours and decide from there what to do. When they got to the town, everyone was immediately off.
"MEAT!" Luffy exclaimed before running off. Senka tried to follow Luffy, but AlliKat grabbed her and started pulling her in the opposite direction.
"Let's go find Elwood!" AlliKat said happily.
"Noooo! I wanna go with Luffy! Food...," Senka cried. AlliKat smacked her sister on the head and kept running, still dragging Senka along.
"Lessee...if I was Elwood, where would I be?" AlliKat said out loud to herself. "I know, the bookstore!"
"No...that's where YOU would be...," Senka sighed. She swatted at AlliKat's paw. "Now lemme go."
"But we have to find Elwood!"
"No we don't."
"We should at least visit him...!"
"No we shouldn't."
"He'll want to know how we are and what we're up to!"
"I don't think he cares..."
"JUST HELP ME, DANG IT!" AlliKat screamed, throwing Senka into some garbage cans by a building. As soon as Senka crashed into them with a loud crash, AlliKat immediately started wailing. "I'M SORRY! SORRY! SORRY! ARE YOU OKAY! I'M SOOO SORRYYYYY!" She ran to Senka, who just got up and started wiping all the dirt off her clothes, and gave her a huge hug.
"Get...off...me...," Senka choked. AlliKat just kept screaming apologies and hugging her to death. "I...forgive...you...just lemme...breath..."
"I'M SORRY!" AlliKat cried for the last time, releasing Senka from her hold. Senka look at her sister dully and then sighed. Senka was about to tell her sister it was okay, when a stranger walked up to them-probably a villager.
"Are you okay?" the man said. Senka and AlliKat stared at him.
"AlliKat, he is speaking Japanese...," Senka whispered over to her sister.
"That he is...," AlliKat nodded. They both continued staring.
"Eh? Are you okay?" the man repeated.
"Uh...I think he asked if one of us is okay," Senka said to AlliKat, and then turned to the man. "Yes! I'm fine!"
"Are you sure?" the man then asked.
"Yes, yes! Don't worry!" Senka bowed.
"I'm glad," the man smiled, and then left. Senka looked at AlliKat, who was completely confused, and laughed.
"Amusing! Kind, wasn't he? Can't believe we met someone who speaks Japanese here...," Senka smiled.
"How do you know Japanese!" AlliKat asked eagerly. "I wanna know it too!"
"I don't remember where I learned it actually!" Senka laughed. AlliKat sweatdropped.
"You don't remember!"
"I think it was Elwood who taught me..."
"Elwood knows Japanese!"
"I think."
"I gotta find him now!" AlliKat yelled, starting to run off.
"Oh, okay! Meet ya back at the ship then!" Senka called out to her, waving her good bye. Senka than looked around, contemplating where to go...then she saw a certain store known as "The Candy Shop" and her problem was solved.
AlliKat, meanwhile, was running through the town on all fours trying to find Elwood. She then spotted a pretty short guy talking to some girls. He had on sunglasses, a green Hawaiian shirt, cargo shorts, and sandals-but of course those weren't what grabbed her attention. It was the hair, the blond hair that swooshed over to the right side of his head. Only one person she knew had hair like that.
"Elwood!" AlliKat exclaimed, pouncing onto Elwood. The girls he'd been talking to immediately scattered to Elwood's dismay. He was completely dumbfounded as AlliKat was hugging him like a crazy hugging machine.
"Impossible!" Elwood cried out loudly. He looked at AlliKat painfully. "WHY are you HERE?" He felt himself on the brink of tears. This was supposed to be his vacation...this was supposed to be HIS time WITHOUT them...
"Teach me Japanese!" AlliKat commanded happily. Elwood gave her a look like she was pure insanity.
"Wha...NO!" Elwood shouted, pushing AlliKat away from him. "I thought we agreed that you weren't allowed to be within five feet of me while I'm on vacation!" AlliKat thought a moment, and then grinned.
"No, that was only for Senka. I'm non-applicable!"
"W-what!" Elwood quickly pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and scanned through it quickly. "I can't believe this..."
"Haha! You're so silly Elwood!" AlliKat laughed. Elwood sighed and stared blankly while AlliKat laughed. And laughed. She just wouldn't stop laughing...
MEANWHILE, IN REAL LIFE...
"Hm...I'm bored...," the familiar girl from before sighed. She then spotted a pile of papers on her desk. "Ooh...drawings from this year..." She picked up the stack and started looking through the pile one paper at a time.
"Haha, I remember this one..."
"What in the world is that!"
"Eh..."
"Haha! Senka!" she exclaimed to herself happily, but then noticed there was another character in the picture. "Hm? Who's that...?" She cocked her head trying to figure who it was. Suddenly her eyes grew wide. "That outfit...that backpack...that short height...IT CAN'T BE!" She gasped. "ELWOOD!"
"Laura!" a voice rang, the voice of the other girl from before with the green in her hair. Laura just sat gaping at the drawing mindlessly. The other girl looked confused for a moment and then came in and sat down behind her. They both sat quietly for a long time.
"W...," Laura started quietly. The other girl leaned in to hear what she was going to say when suddenly Laura whipped around with a desperate expression on her face. "WTF, Alli! WTF!" ((Yes, she's actually saying "WTF"...))
"Huh?" Alli blinked. Laura shoved the picture in her face.
"ELWOOD'S HAIR! IT DOESN'T HAVE THE SWOOSH! IT DOESN'T HAVE THE SWOOSH!" Laura cried.
"...he indeed does not...," Alli replied, and then took the picture to look at it herself. "If it's an consolation, there is a little bit of a swoosh action..."
"It's on the wrong side!"
"uh...I'm sorry?" Laura looked like she was going to cry.
"I've spent countless hours drawing them...Senka's hardly changed a bit, and I thought Elwood was the same...so why in the world is there a picture of Elwood...like...like this!" Laura started sobbing now and Alli patted her on the shoulder.
"I shall go now..." Alli got up and left. Laura sat quietly, and then sniffed.
"Oh well," she then said to herself and turned back to her computer to work.
BACK TO THE STORY...
"Are you quite finished yet?" Elwood asked, feeling annoyed. AlliKat stopped laughing abruptly.
"Yessir," AlliKat replied.
"So, what do you want? Really?" Elwood questioned, crossing his arms.
"We joined Luffy's crew!"
"Who? What?"
"Luffy's crew!"
"Who the heck is Luffy!"
"LUFFY! MONKEY D. LUFFY!" AlliKat screamed at the top of her lungs. Elwood blinked.
"Monkey D. Luffy...?" he repeated, and then he realized who she was talking about. He pointed to a wanted posted on a building next to them. "That guy! You joined that guy's crew!"
"Yes!" AlliKat nodded. "But we're going to rescue them first!"
"Rescue them? From what?" Elwood asked, confused. AlliKat's eyes narrowed.
"The horrid fiends known as...4Kids Entertainment!" As soon as she spoke the evildoers name, a collection of strange assortment of things-lollipops, juice boxes, and even kids' books-came raining down on Elwood's head.
"Ow!" Elwood cried, putting his hand on his head and then looking up to the sky. "What the hell was that!"
"That was weird."
"Yeah..." They both stood silently staring at the sky until Elwood turned back to AlliKat. "Yeah, so you're going to save them, huh? How much do you know?"
"Uh...only what crimes they have committed and who they are...," AlliKat replied, scratching her head. "Everyone seems to talk in Japanese here..."
"No. That was true, but after this ship came to town, more people have been speaking English." Elwood pointed to a man drinking a huge glass of water. "Yesterday, he only drank alcohol and he spoke Japanese. But today, he only drinks water and he speaks English. His voice is completely different..."
"What! The evil beings must be responsible!" AlliKat exclaimed. Elwood nodded.
"Right. I don't know where they are now though...still in town, presumably."
"Come back to the boat with me! We have to tell Senka!" AlliKat said, grabbing Elwood and pulling him towards the port. Elwood resisted and pulled back.
"NO! I don't want to see Senka! Keep me out of this! I already helped you enough, didn't I!" he shouted to her angrily, but she kept pulling.
"She doesn't want to see you either! It's perfect, come on!" AlliKat replied happily, still pulling.
"NO!" Elwood argued. AlliKat then twitched and narrowed her eyes.
"You ARE coming..." Elwood sweatdropped in fear; she looked very angry...she looked like she was going to hurt someone...
"O-okay...," Elwood said, hanging his head in defeat.
"Yay! Let's go!" she cheered, pulling him to the port. Gloom hung over Elwood's head.
When they got to the boat, Senka was already there. She had a stuffed parrot on her shoulder with a "push here" sticker on its foot, and she was sitting on a huge bag of candy. The others still hadn't come back though. AlliKat pushed Elwood to Senka. When Senka saw Elwood, her eyes narrowed. Elwood didn't look happy to see her either.
"Senka."
"Elwood."
They both stood quietly, an awkward silence starting to form...Senka casually lifted her arm to her parrot plushie and pushed down on its foot.
"Caaawwwwwwwww...," rang out from the plushie loudly, making Senka smile. Elwood just twitched and looked incredibly mad now.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!"
Yet-another A/N: If you're ever out and about in IL, there's an awkward silence, and then someone screams out "Caaawwwwwwwwww"...yeah, that's probably me. If not "caw", it may be substituted with "Chirp", "Wind", or "Silence of Awkwardness". If the silence is a very strong one, I garuntee you I will say "Caawww...Caaaaawwwww..." quietly and then scream at the top of my lungs "CAW!"
(sweatdrop)
It's just the way I am...