Talking "Hi I am a Stegosaurus"
Thoughts 'I'm not really though'
Sound Effects 'Cabooooooom!'
Writing/Transponder Snails 'Hey its ya boi'
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N… OH WELL imagine as I'm pacing the pews in the church corridor and I can't help but to hear, I can't help but hear an exchanging of words. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING! What a beautiful wedding said the bridesmaid to the waiter. But yes, oh what a shame. What a shame the poor groom's bride is a WHOR… where were we? Oliver has been granted residency in the Alabasta Kingdom by King Cobra himself. He also gets a traineeship/apprenticeship with Pell as his teacher/mentor, and a part time babysitting job with the princess herself… Let's go see how Oliver is doing.
After the meeting with King Cobra and ironing out a few minor details… like who would be Oliver's guardian as he was technically a minor at fifteen. Pell and Oliver got kicked out of the meeting room not soon after, so that King Cobra could have his next appointed meeting.
"All right Oliver, as promised we will be visiting the Chief Engineer here in the kingdom" Pell said as he led Oliver deeper into the castle, their footsteps echoing around them. "Can't have you flying around when you can barely see now can we", "Awesome" Oliver said with an eager grin.
"Then after that can we do some more flying, I Haven't been able to fly for weeks because of my stupid back injury. But now that it's finally healed enough I just want to continue flying you know? Did you know that was my third time flying! Only my third time! it is the absolute best.. Not the part where I face planted of course, but you understand don't yo-". "Oliver" he jumped slightly as his rapid mumblings were interrupted, he looked sheepishly up at Pell.
"Rather than talk my ear off about flying, we finish up what we need to do here first" we have been standing outside this door for a while now I am beginning to think you hadn't noticed?" Pell said with a bemused smirk. Oliver fiddled with his poncho softly looking a little embarrassed 'I hadn't noticed at all… when did we even stop walking?!'.
"I believe that's another thing I have to train you on isn't it? Being aware of your surroundings is a very important aspect for a royal guard and a devil fruit user with the ability of flight. Now then, let's go in" Pell gave Oliver one last bemused smirk before walking through a heavy looking iron door they apparently stopped in front of.
Not wanting to be left behind Oliver followed quickly after him.
The iron door opened up to a massive room filled with armour, swords, pots, spoons, telescopes, some weird looking glass sculptures and all sorts of weird and random items. "Are those... metal rabbits?" Oliver asked in confusion as he walked up to a row of the weird metal contraptions. "Yes... Princess Vivi went through a phase" Pell said as he continued through the clutter, There seemed to be no visible sign of organisation.
The room then seemed to open up to a very large balcony setting over viewing the desert. There on one side was a wall stacked with Metal bars of different varieties, large barrels and sacks littered in a corner. The opposite side of the room had large black smithing equipment, a forge, anvil, bucket of water and a wall of tools from hammers to files.
"Wow this place is so cool!" Oliver said in amazement, only ever seeing rooms like this in movies and tv shows. "Cool? You mean disorganized and messy.. But don't tell Garth that, he might hit you with his hammer" Pell said as he looked over the first part of the room in exasperated amusement. "Darn right I would, and don't think I won't do it now" a gruff voice answered somewhere behind the forge.
Pell froze in place, he looked towards the voice his face bit pale. This startled Oliver a bit 'What type of man is this that can make Pell so anxious?' Oliver thought nervously, shifting his gaze between Pell and the figure emerging from behind the forge. Suddenly a hammer was hurtling towards Pell's head. Olivers eyes widened in shock as Pell ducked just in time to avoid the hammer, they both watched it smash hilt deep into the wall behind them.
Pell and Oliver visibly gulped, before glancing back at Garth. "Hahaha and let that be a lesson to the both of ya. Don't disrespect ma mess" Garth was in full view now. Wearing a large white apron with black soot covering him head to toe. Garth was a rather short but wide man with a glorious ginger beard and bald head. Garth reminded Oliver heavily of a Dwarf.
"Haha yes well" Pell began with forced laughter, "I have a commission for you Garth, Oliver my new apprentice here has rather heightened senses to the point of it being a hindrance. Do you by chance have an idea of how we can block out sight and brightness for him?" Pell said as he straightened out his ruffled clothing. Garth scratched his bald head in thought, "shouldn't be too difficult I suppose, come over here lad so i can take your measurements" He beckoned Oliver over with his soot covered hand, while also making his way towards the wall of tools he has.
Standing behind Garth Oliver watched him grab some measuring devices off the walls and place them on his work bench. Onc he placed them down he grabbed the one that looked like one of those claw machine hooks you would see at arcade places. "This here lad" Garth said as he showed Oliver the device. "Is called a Caliper, there are many different types. This one helps me measure the width of your head, and since you're so tall I'm gonna need ya to lean down for a few seconds so I can measure your noggin".
Oliver smirked a bit, finding it funny that he is taller than the older man, "haha sure laugh at the man that's going to be making vital equipment for you.. See how that turns out for ya" Garth said in an icey tone. Olivers face became pale, "Oh sorry Garth… I wasn't thinking" Oliver mumbled out apologetically.
Garth rolled his eyes at Oliver "You make sure to remember that, I know Pell doesn't"he then let out a hearty chuckle. "Don't worry too much lad I have thick skin".
Garth measured the width of Oliver's head with the Caliper and the circumference with a measuring tape, he also used a small ruler to measure his distance between his eyes and a whole bunch of other things that seemed to just go over Oliver's head. "Alrighty, now by the fact that your Pells apprentice. Which frankly isn't heard off, i'm gonna assume your devil fruit is similar to this fools-" "heard that!" "-one?" Garth asked, ignoring Pell. "Yeah, I can transform into Grey- Headed Flying Fox… ahh which pretty much is a fruit bat.." Oliver answered.
"Never heard of that before, why don't you quickly transform so I can take your transformed measurements too", "Ok. Well I have two forms with this devil fruit, a human hybrid version and full on bat form" Oliver said turned into his Hybrid form.
His arms turned into wings, easily doing so thanks to the Poncho Pell gifted him. Oliver grew a few inches taller as his feet became massive claws and his legs and neck became hairy. Orange fur on his neck and black on his neck, his human ears disappeared as his flying fox ones popped out from his hair.
"Awww look at you so adorable" Garth said teasingly, "What? No I don't! I look badass, not cute!" Oliver puffed his chest out and pouted, clearly insulted at what Garth had said. "Haha to easy. Alright hold still so I can measure your melon". Less than a minute later Garth was done "Alright Oliver last form".
Oliver Closed his eyes as he concentrated on turning into his full Flying Fox form. At this point even with such little use, transforming felt as simple as breathing. He felt his whole body grow fur, his nose jolting outwards creating his snout and small black nose. He felt a warmth go over his eyes as they turned into bats eyes. Oliver felt a shiver go from the tip of his head to the end of his claws, opening his eyes he squinted a bit before looking at Garth.
"Adorable now, lean down and give me ya head" rolling his eyes at Garth Oliver let Garth continue measuring his head using his wing, claw thingies to stabilize himself and not fall over. "Alright all done measuring", Oliver transformed back into his human self. "Cool when will they be done?" Oliver asked excitedly "Hmmm… two to three days time I suppose".
"Do you have anything he could use while you're making his actual pair, i wanted to start training straight away" Pell asked as he stepped for ward towards Garth and Oliver. Garthe crossed his arms and thought for a second "Well I do have some simple ear plugs he can use right now, and I can make some type of head wear suitable for him to wear during flight."
Garth walked over to the unorganised mess and in two seconds flat pulled out some small yellow ear plugs, quickly throwing them over to Oliver. "Here you go lad these should do the trick for now, once I finish the proper pair I will send Jasper down to fetch ya when it's done'. Garth said as he walked back to his forgeing area already picking out different materials and placing them on his work bench. "Jasper?" Oliver asks in confusion.
"Yeah he is a young lad around your age, who is also a royal guard apprentice. He usually runs up here a couple times a week to bring me all the broken equipment from his training to fix. Bright lad he is" Garth sad with a proud smile. "You only say that because he is your son… but you are correct his is a bright young lad and the royal guard are happy to have him Garth" Pell seemed to notice the colour of the sky behind Garth. Instead of the bright blue the sky was when they first entered the castle, it was starting to go through the cycle of pinks and oranges as the sun set.
"Oh the time sure does fly, thank you Garth. I will see you tomorrow. Come Oliver it's time to get you back to the brackets." Pell said as he started to make his way towards the window. "Bye Garth, thank you for the ear muffs'' Oliver waved goodbye before putting the yellow ear plugs in, he quickly followed after Pell. Pell transformed into his Hawk from before taking off from the window into the sky. Oliver followed suit transforming into his bat form now with the ear plugs in his flying fox ears.
Oliver looked down and shook his head a bit from the vertigo, 'you got this Oliver, flying is fun and easy now' Smirking a bit Oliver jumped over the balconies railing and followed quickly after Pell.
"What a bright young lad. This commision gonna allow me to test out some new ideas, hahaha what fun" Garth said as he watched them both fly off.
Pell and Oliver made it back to the Brackets in quick time, getting there before dinner was being served. "Alright Oliver we will get to the mess hall before service starts, this is where I leave you for today, you know your away around to get the brackets and training field?" Pell asked eyebrow raised. " Yes sir" Oliver supplied proudly. " Good, you will need to meet me on the training field in the morning at 8:30am. Breakfast will be served at 7am. I would recommend not missing it" Pell said as they finally walked into the mess hall.
There were five long tables taking up most of the room, then at the back of the room was another long table looking over the others. It seemed to have all the high ranked royal guards that are currently in the facility. Then on either side of the room where long tables with white table cloth covered in food. "Sit on that table there Oliver!" Pell said loudly over the rather loud room. He pointing to the far right table in the room "That table is for new recruits and guests, they should be friendly enough!". "Wait what!?" Oliver asked, turning back to look at Pell only to see he was already walking up to the head table. Taking a seat in the empty seat in the centre.
Oliver walked over to the far right table which seemed to have an assortment of young adults. Most were looking at him in awe, Oliver sat down nervously. leaving a good space between him and the next person. There were about 40 People sitting at this table and about that number or higher for the rest of the tables. This made the room sound like a deathly roar even though everyone was talking quietly.
Oliver clenched his eyes shut in pain, even though he wasn't using his devil fruit the sound of everyone talking seemed a thousand times worse. He quickly put his ear plugs in which lessened the noise but not completely cancel it out.
"-ey are you ok?" A voice asked from in front of him. Looking up Oliver caught himself ensnared in the gaze of a bright green eyed beauty. The teen in front of him was a beauty to behold, freckles decorating his skin and with spiky orange hair held back by a bandana. "-ame is Jasper ''. "Ha? what was that sorry" Oliver sputtered out in embarrassment. "Hahaha, I said my name is Jasper whats yours?" The handsome boy said with a smile. Melting Olivers heart to another degree.
"Oh... umm yeah. My name is Oliver... are you by chance Garth's son?" Oliver asked timidly, remembering Garth told him he had a son named Jasper . . "Hhaha yeah I am... most people don't realise" Getting weak at the knees from the sound of Jaspers soft chuckle. Everyone always say I look like my mum", " Your mum must be very pretty then" Oliver muttered softly. "What was that?" Jasper asked with a smirk. "Nothing! Nothing" Oliver said rather loudly becoming quiet flustered his face becoming red, his yelling interpreting some of the people talking next to them. Jasper laughed good heartedly.
Oliver looked down slightly mortified, 'wow some first impression I made'. "Hey Oliver don't worry too much. It's nice to meet you, welcome to the brackets" Jasper said as he stuck an arm out towards Oliver. Oliver smiled good heartedly and grabbed onto Jaspers hand giving it a good shake, savouring the feeling of Jaspers palm on his own. "It's good to be here" Oliver said with a slight blush. Jasper smiled in return.