Chapter 18

Hey it's the weirdest thing so I thought I would point it out, I only had 199 views on chapter 16 where I had over 400 on chap 17…. Did people just not read chap 16? PM me and let me know if you skipped it :3

I do not own One Piece, it's Oda-sensei's, but I do own the OC's such as Marty, Beth and Charlene (and Rory and Martha and Rose and Silver Jack and POLO and Fee Fee Trixabell)

Re-cap : Marty's about to get eaten by a giant blue sea monster named Fee Fee Trixabell

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Marty's hands began to shake and she frowned. She was so tired all of a sudden. She kept her hands straight upwards maintaining the writhing pillars of water, all the while peering in the general direction of where she had last seen the Marco-bird. Come on birdy, come to Marty. Come save her from her new pet. Marty briefly wondered if Marco would let her keep Fee Fee, but the thought was cut short by a tremor under her feet as the beast shifted.

"Ah," Marty said as the head she was standing on began to rise out of the water, "oh … shh it's ok, shh shh shh go back to sleep." Marty said in what she hoped was a soothing voice. She spared a glance at the water that had come crashing back down with the release of her remaining concentration. Well, there goes that plan. Marty didn't think she had enough energy to summon up another show like that without blacking out.

"Shhhhh sleeeeeeeep. You are getting sleeeeeeeeepy," Marty said soothingly as she could,"… rock a bye baby, on the tree tops, when the wind blows, the cradle will rock, ummm when the branch broke the cradle …fell, why is this even considered a nursery rhyme, the kid in it dies."

Marty wondered if she was doing more harm than good by marking out her location, and abandoned the singing.

Marty sat down on Fee Fee Trixabell's head with her legs crossed, thinking.

Well I'm screwed anyway, and with that thought she scooted forward to slide down Fee Fee's nose till she was at the tip. Once there she shakily got to her feet turning to get a breathtaking view of two, ginormous, periwinkle blue eyes, that weren't even focused on her. She was so small in comparison to the Sea King that her weight wasn't even noticeable, what a lucky break.

"…. EXCUSE ME," Marty called, the eyes blinked then rotated slowly to fix on the girl. There was confusion in its eyes like it was the first time for it to have a small human standing on its nose waving its arms, "HELLO," Fee Fee Trixabell blinked enormously, "… I'M MARTY … I DIDN'T GET YOUR NAME, SO I'VE BEEN CALLING YOU FEE FEE," the Sea King looked slightly confused at this, "TRIXABELL," Marty added as if that cleared everything up.

Marty dropped onto her hands and knees as the Sea King rose its head up even higher.

"I WAS WONDERING," Marty called as she continued to rise, "COULD YOU TAKE ME BACK TO MY SHIP? IT'S um… er, THERE," Marty said pointing. Fee Fee Trixabell continued to stare, "… PLEASE?"

Fee Fee Trixabell blinked again then began to shake his head as if to shoo off a fly.

Well… in a way, Marty did fly. The launch had contained quite a bit of force so Marty travelled upwards for a little while.

And now I'm falling, Marty thought crossly, again. Marty remembered Amber telling her how hitting water from such a height was about the same as plummeting towards concrete.

Which would hurt. Well for a little while, then it wouldn't matter. Marty stuck her hands out in front of her as if to break her fall.

"Yaosu yaosu wind," Marty yelled over the rushing air, she slowed for a second as the wind seemed to grow solid around her, then lost concentration as a wave of exhaustion hit her, nearly knocking her unconscious.

"Ow my head," Marty moaned, forgetting it was going to feel a lot worse in a few seconds. Marty watched the water rushing up to meet her. It was the last thing she saw before her vision flashed light blue and she slammed into a hard surface.

"Ow whiplash," Marty groaned rubbing her neck. Ace glared down at her furiously.

"Is that all you have to say? What the hell were you doing? And how the actual," Ace uses a bad word here that is not suitable for all ages, "did you end up on a," really Ace consider the children, "-ing Sea king?!" Marty blinked then glanced around, catching site of her new friend disappearing into the Ocean.

"Good Bye!" Marty called, squirming in Ace's arms to get one of her hands free to wave, "thanks for saving me!" Ace was looking torn between rage and disbelief of her sanity as he pulled her back down to stop her toppling out of his arms.

"Are you insane? How does a Sea King that just tried to kill you get labelled as your saviour?" Marty blinked glancing down at the sound of Marco's voice.

"… I don't want to alarm you Marco, but you're on fire," Marty said, causing Ace to roll his eyes, "Also, you've grown a beak." Marco chuckled, turning in a wide circle to head back to the ship. Marty looked around, getting her bearings for the first time.

"You go out of your way to cause problems don't you. We thought you'd gone over the side and drowned!" Ace raged as she put her arm around his neck to pull herself up. Ace had one of his arms under her knees while the other was around her waist as he held Marty up and away from Marco's flames, "How the Hell did you end up on top of a Sea King!"

"Why is Ace here? Couldn't you have come by yourself?" Marty asked curiously, Ace resisted the urge to drop Marty back into the ocean.

"Oh I'm sorry," Ace said annoyed, "I wasn't aware you are able to touch fire."

"… You're really pretty as a phoenix Marco."

"Don't ignore me-."

"Thanks, the water show you put on was impressive," Ace grunted.

"A little over the top," Ace huffed glancing back at the sea king.

"Trixabell was asleep when I started the water show. He's so big I was hoping he wouldn't notice me."

"Trixabell?" Ace asked after a few seconds, forgetting he was mad at her.

"Fee Fee Trixabell," Marty corrected.

"… You named that monster Fee Fee Trixabell," Ace said slowly, Marco grinned at his tone.

"It's a lovely name," said Marco.

"Yeah for a puffy pink poodle, no wonder he threw her off."

"MARTY!" Marty glanced down as they descended towards the Moby Dick, "WHAT THE HELL YOU IDIOT! I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!"

"I'm glad to see you too Cake!"

"YOU ARE THE MOST STUPID, DIZTY-"

"MARTY I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE OK!" Beth cheered, waving her arms

"-IGNORANT, ACCIDENT PRONE, NUMBSKULLED-"

"Way to make us worry girly," Jack laughed.

"-IDIOTIC, UNDERBRED, SENSELESS-,"

"Cake's like a walking thesaurus," Marty laughed wrapping her other arm around Ace's neck as Marco began to rapidly descend. Ace looked at the girl in his arms weirdly.

"What's a thesaurus?"

"INJUDICIOUS, FOOLISH, NUMPTY, IRRESPONSIBLE DUNDERHEAD I'VE EVER MET!"

"Time to get off," Marco called, and spun upside down. Ace fell from his back, still holding onto Marty, he flipped over in mid-air to land on the ship's deck safely.

"Are you some kind of cat?" Marty asked cheerfully, slightly dizzy from being tossed around, as the crowd descended upon them. Ace snorted, amused, before remembering he was mad at her.

"Marty, you idiot!" Cake exclaimed, throwing her arms around both Marty and Ace while Beth strolled up behind her.

"How are you even alive?" Cake demanded, pulling back slightly. Marty grinned.

"I made friends with a Sea King."

"Whom she named Fee Fee Trixabell," Ace added bemused, the spectators around them laughed.

"You're proof the Gods have a sense of humour," Beth chuckled

"Isn't she just," Ace said attempting to step away from Charlene, "would you let go? I can't put the silly girl down with you clinging to us like that." Charlene stepped back looking at him haughtily as Marco dropped back onto the deck beside them.

"So that was fun," Marco said cheerfully, Ace glanced at him wryly before looking down at Marty

"Let go of my neck will you," As soon as Marty arms were free, Ace dropped his arms and Marty with them. Marty hit the deck with a thump, laughing as a door to the lower deck open and a crewmate stuck his head through.

"Food's on," comic silence descended for a few seconds before the flurry of pirates bolted for the door as one. This was bad news for Marty as she was still sitting on the floor. She had her arms over her head to avoid being kicked in the face as several men tripped over her.

"Upsie daisy," a large hand wrapped itself around one of her arms and hoisted her up out of the fray. Marty blinked as Jack settled her so she was sitting in the crook of one of his giant arms.

Likewise Marco grabbed Beth and Charlene pulling them backwards out of the stampede. Ace glanced around and, seeing there was no other girls to save, grabbed the back of Polo's collar as he went past, lifting him up and out of the way.

"Commander what are you doing! Put me down!"

"My mother would say you have a penchant for trouble," Jack chuckled. Marty tilted her head back to look up at her large friend. She stretched out her hand to tug on his beard.

"Not sure what my mother would say but your beard is softer than it looks"

"Commander seriously, everyone's gone inside, please let me down," Ace frowned.

"That's the thanks I get for rescuing you?"

"You didn't rescue him, he was part of the stampede and, therefore, the problem," Marco said calmly, walking in the direction of the chaos. Ace glanced at Marco before turning back to Polo.

"Ok, answer this question and I will," Ace decided, Polo looked at him warily.

"What's the question."

"What is a Thesaurus?" Marty paused in ruffling Silver Jacks beard to turn and stare at Ace. She wasn't the only one, albeit the others were staring for different reasons.

"The hell," Marco asked confused, "What kind of weird made up word is that?"

"I didn't make it up," Ace protested while Polo looked thoughtful.

"Is it a type of dinosaur?" Polo guessed hopefully, Ace blinked.

"So Princess is a walking dinosaur?" Ace said tilting his head, "I can see that," Charlene laughed condescendingly.

"Dinosaurs are extinct you idio…. HEY!"

"Hey Purple said it not me."

"Marty! How could you!" Marty blinked owlishly, a perplexed look on her face.

"… You don't have thesauruses? Why don't you have thesauruses? You have indoor plumbing for God's sake," Marty was still staring at Ace and Charlene, as such she missed the glance that passed between Beth and Marco. Jack saw it though, and wondered for a moment on its meaning before shrugging. Kids nowadays, they did everything differently, who was he to question young love and its odd manifestations.

"Dinosaurs are extinct," Charlene said contemptuously flipping her hair, "Off course we don't have them. "

"Not everywhere," Ace said shrugging, Polo swung slightly with the movement. His arms were crossed and he looked like he had given up all hope of freedom, "There are islands in the Grand Line that still have them." Marty shook her head and turned to Jack.

"I'm hungry, can we leave them here? They'll probably be a while."

"No you can't," Marco answered for Jack, glancing at Marty with a slight smile on his face, "You bailed on a good hour of training even though you're the one who needs it the most." Marty frowned, while Ace ditched bickering with Charlene to laugh at her.

"Not intentionally."

"Regardless you and Ace are staying out here to try and fix your destroy-everything-I-see habit."

"Wait WHAT," Ace protested, "It's not like I pushed her overboard or introduced her to Penelope Treebell." '

"Who, by the way, is in one piece and not destroyed in the slightest," Marty kicked her leg out dislodging her boot so it flew through the air to smack Ace in the side of the head, "And it's Fee Fee Trixabell you uncultured lout." Ace hurled the boot that was once his back at Marty for Jack to catch it one-handed.

"One hour," Marco ordered calmly as he turned to walk away, "I had better not see you two before then. Now for Rodger's sake, let go of the kid." Ace blinked glancing at Polo who was hanging, forgotten in his grip.

"Can I go now?"

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I'm sorry, I'll try faster updates