Hello, sorry this is getting up a bit late I ended up having to work longer than I thought and just got home. But some good news today! I passed my certification for my career choice. I've been stressing about this for weeks if I didn't pass I'd have to retake it and pay a penalty fee, without it I wouldn't be able to do my college co-op placement and pass the program. But it's over! Enough rambling and I hope you enjoy the chapter! Reviews are welcome as always!

Blessed by the Sea

Chapter 3: Gathering More Crew Members

"I don't know how the two of you expected to get anywhere with no navigational skills…." Zoro commented. It had been a few days since he joined up, the three of us where lying about the boat, just drifting across the water.

"I don't know a thing!" laughed Luffy "just let the wind take us"

"I'm the only one who knows a little bit about sailing, but navigating with a map… not much…." I laughed "we're in no hurry anyway this is an adventure!" I sat back against the wood of the mast, closed my eyes and soaked up some of the midday sun. I could never forget the feeling of being on the sea like this.

Luffy began to hum, the tune was some sort of sea shanty that Shanks had taught him, though we had forgotten the words years ago. Zoro raised an eyebrow but didn't seem to know it and Luffy grinned as I joined in, singing wasn't a talent but I could hold a note. "We're going to need a musician soon!" Luffy chirped

I stopped humming and sighed "We'll starve to death without a cook Luffy…"

"Oh, right…." He grabbed his chin "where can we find a good cook…? Oh hey!" he yelled suddenly "Look at that huge bird!" Up in the clouds was a huge multicolored bird. It was huge from our distance, it must have been three times the size of the ship!

"Food!" Luffy cheered, and before I could stop him the rubber teen shot up into the air after it.

"You idiot!" Zoro yelled and stood, squinting his eyes against the sun. "He's stuck!"

Indeed all I could see was his body mixed up with the bird and he wasn't coming back down.

"HELP!" we could hear him yelling "I'M STUCK! Let me go you stupid bird!"

"Let go of him!" I yelled up, but the bird continued flying on. Zoro threw himself into rowing "keep him in sight!" he yelled

"There's an island! It's headed that way!" I kept Zoro in the right direction and the bird was just a dot in the sky in a matter of minutes. The wind whipped through my hair as Zoro rowed as fast as he could, I dug into my pouch and pulled out a telescope, I snatched it off a marine back in shell town during the scuffle. I peered through just in time to see a red dot drop from the bird and fall onto the island, what looked like a town was located not far from the docks. "He's landed, looks like there's a town!"

Zoro slowed down, chest heaving "He's fine… goddamn, he's gonna give me a heart attack" Zoro huffed.

I laughed "you'll get used to it"

We docked at the island about 20 minutes after Luffy was seen falling from the bird. It was a large dock, definitely bigger than shell town but the place was deserted, and the town from what could be seen was mostly destroyed. Full rows of houses looked like they've been bowled down. Debris littered the streets, and there were no people in sight.

"So" Zoro looked around "where do you think he's wondered off too?"

I sighed "might as well just walk around, I don't think there's going to be anyone around that might have seen him" I kicked a piece of rubble and started off down the road, Zoro kept a hand on his sword hilt as we walked. This place was too quiet. I wonder what could have happened.

We wondered around for a few minutes, until Zoro suddenly veered to the right.

"Where are you going…?"

"Straight"

I blinked "straight is this way" I pointed down the street, buildings were crumbling on either side of us. He was about to just walk through a destroyed house.

"Oh, right. I knew that"

I watched him continue the way we were going and grinned. "Zoro… do you have a bad sense of direction…"

"No I don't, I know north is front, left is south and right is east!" he stated it so bluntly I stopped.

"Zoro… how did you ever move around!" I broke into laughter "North, south, east and west are fixed points due to the red line! Left and right are just what's beside your body!"

"I know that" he snapped back "now shut up and just find Luffy!" From my angle I could see a faint blush on his cheeks. I laughed again. "You're funny!"

As we got deeper into the town we began to hear a large commotion, yelling and cheering and some sort of squeaking noise... Zoro and I stopped to take cover behind a half standing building and peered our heads out to see a large group of men, partying in a square. A large black skull and cross bones flag was hung from a building, that looked like the town hall. The skull had a large red nose and was decorated in makeup that made it look like a clown. Pirates.

"Is that a lion….?" I looked down from the flag and off to the side there was indeed a large white lion, it was sleeping. "What sort of pirates own a lion…." I wondered and looked around at the rest of the group, everyone seemed to be focused on a ginger haired girl. She was standing beside a large cannon and in front of that cannon was a steel cage with a bound Luffy sitting inside. The teen was grinning at the girl.

"What has that idiot gotten himself into" Zoro sighed "Let's go"

We stepped out from behind our hiding place and I noticed a man who must be the captain, the flag had the same large clown nose as the one on his face. Wild blue hair was sticking out in different directions from under his white and red Captain's hat and was yelling loud enough to be a fool. The man really did seem like a clown. The group didn't notice us as we walked up so I yelled "Oi! Luffy what have you gotten into this time?"

I placed my hands on my hips, the ginger haired girl had a pack of matches loosely in her hand looked up in shock.

I scowled, these idiots were about to blow up my idiot.

My Captain in question whipped his head around and grinned "Mel! I found another crewmate!" even with his hands tied behind his back and sitting squished in a small cage he was hyper and his large smile just glowed in excitement. I couldn't help but loose the scowl and grin back.

"And who might that be. Not the clown I hope…" I didn't even glance at the fool who yelled "OI!" and stomped his feet like a child.

"This is Nami. She's a navigator!" he pointed his head towards the red head nodding excitedly.

I smiled "nice to meet you" Zoro nodded to her.

"I'm not joining you!" Nami yelled, by her tone I could tell Luffy had asked her a bunch of times already.

"Don't you ignore me!" the clown cut in. With a quick glance he stood and yelled "Kill them!" The men all scattered and stumbled, getting their weapons in hand.

"Time to go" Snapped Zoro, he ran to the cannon and flipped it using all of his strength to face the oncoming pirates while I grabbed the matches from Nami's hand and lit it up. "Bye-bye" I wiggled my fingers

"Oh no you don't!" out the corner of my eye a knife came whizzing through the air and it was heading straight for Luffy. I moved to grab it out of the air but one look from Luffy had me stop and instead turned to the shocked ginger. I swept Nami off her feet holding her in a bridal carry, the girl was much too light so I made a mental note to ask about it later. She squirmed and squeaked but I held firm and looked back at Luffy who had caught the knife between his teeth and snapped the blade into pieces. "Buzz off big nose"

Then the cannon went off and it literally tore through the group of pirates and many of the buildings behind it.

"Zoro! Let's get out of here!"

"Aye" the swordsman pulled out his white hilted sword and tried to cut up the steel cage but it just wasn't working. "Hold on" he grunted and hefted Luffy, cage and all onto his back "Let's go"

The weight nearly bent him in half but he started jogging at a good pace. Nami gave a squeal and demanded to be put down when I started a brisk but slow to me pace, staying just ahead of the green haired swordsmen and heading further into the town.

"Who the hell are you?" Nami yelled

"Oh sorry" I grinned "I'm Melody"

"Can you let me down..." she grumbled

"Nope"

"Zoro!" I turned my head to look back at the boys, Luffy was screaming about something.

Blood was running down Zoro and splattering onto the ground, a shiny blade was sticking out of his side. "Zoro what the hell happened to you?" we had left the plaza behind so how did he get stabbed?

"I'm fine" he growled and adjusted the cage on his back, which only aggravated the wound and made it squirt more blood. It had thoroughly stained the bottom of his white shirt and all down one side of his pants.

"Keep moving." he grunted.

We turned down a side street, and stopped deeming this far enough from the plaza and the clown pirates. I placed Nami back on her feet, I was surprised she didn't immediately flee. The ginger only crossed her arms and watched Zoro huff and drop the cage. "You are nuts" she huffed and grimaced when he just yanked the knife out and collapsed onto the ground as gracefully as he could "this is nothing a nap won't fix"

He tried to close his eyes but I pulled up his soaked shirt "I wouldn't think so, this is still pretty deep."

Luffy was pouting in the cage, unable to do anything.

"I don't think it hit anything important…" I shrugged, it was in the side, clear through one side, and it was still sluggishly bleeding. "Nami can you find some booze?" I looked up at her, it wasn't a test per say.

She looked over my shoulder and made another grimace at the blood "I'll be right back"

"Booze sounds good" Zoro grinned.

I smacked him up the head. "You're lucky you don't need stiches, cause I can't sew for shit"

"Just some sleep and I'll be fine" he mumbled, eyes closed and slipped into a nap.

I shrugged, it's gonna be a rude awakening when I dump the alcohol on the wound. Luffy laughed "He'll be fine" I turned to the raven haired boy and smiled "yeah"

I spun around, sitting on the gravel ground in front of the cage. "Spin around I'll get those ropes off. But we're gonna need to find a key or something big to get you outta here"

He laughed again, but did as I said and spun around. The ropes dropped easily, and I cleared them from the cage just as Nami arrived, booze and a first aid kid in hand.

"I'm back, did he die?" she eyed the still swordsman.

"Fell asleep." I took the supplies from her "thanks"

I dumped half the small rum bottle on Zoro but he didn't even move a muscle or twitch. I hummed "what a deep sleeper"

"Lucky" Nami said quietly. I don't think she noticed that I heard her. I worked quickly and slapped a bandage on both sides of the wound. With that done I took up a seat, leaning against the cage and looked up at Nami.

"Look, thanks for earlier but I'm off." She dug into her jean pocket and tossed a metal key, which I snatched out of the air and held between two fingers.

"But you gotta join my crew!"

The teen grimaced, "look I got things to do! I can't just travel the waters! And as a pirate no less! No thanks!" she huffed and spun on her heel "I hate pirates"

"Nami" Luffy pouted. In one motion I unlocked the cage and Luffy rocketed to the ginger "Please!" he grinned and wined like a child while jumping around her.

"No" she started to walk away but Luffy just kept circling her as she walked.

I hung back, mostly to watch after the sleeping swordsman. But the two didn't get far when a large crash vibrated through the silent town. In a blink of an eye I pushed Zoro underneath a porch and went to Luffy's side. The two of them were looking down a street, a single building was getting demolished. The tail of the white lion belonging to the pirate crew was flicking in and out of the rubble.

"Come on Richie" a loud voice laughed and a man wearing white fur and had ears on his head stepped out of the rubble, the lion followed. It was munching on something that I hoped wasn't a person.

"Guess you won't have to worry about this anymore" the man laughed and tossed a bit of rubble to the side.

"Luffy" I got his attention, and pointed out a man that was laying on the cobbled road across from the crumbling building, and it looked like a small ball of fluff was held in his arms.

"You've taken this town, you've taken our safety, now…" the man was crying

The pirate laughed "now, I'll take your life. Richie!" the Lion lunged.

"Mel"

"Hai"

I raced down the street, and could tell now the cowering man had a small dog in his arms. Another look at the destroyed building I noticed a small sign, a pet store. The dog's home? I arrived at the side of the lion and swiftly did a back flip up, my foot hooking the lion in the side. Slowly the fur took the hit and I took another look at the crying man before fully stopping and watched as time caught up and the lion went flying into a far building, adding more destruction to the town.

A single heartbeat of silence as Luffy and Nami caught up and the fur wearing pirate stood shocked, mouth hanging open.

"Are you alright?" I quietly asked the man who was about to be killed, to his eyes it properly looked like I just teleported in. He nodded shakily and got to his feet. I got a good look at the small white dog, he was breathing thankfully but a few claw marks were bleeding sluggishly.

"Who are you?"

"Just some people passing through" I smiled. Finally the pirate's mind caught up with what had just happened and screamed bloody murder. "You just killed my Richie!"

I scoffed "you were about to kill this cute little doggy"

"I'll kill you!" the idiot rushed at me but Luffy was close and gave him a sound punch, connecting and making his nose crunch. The momentum sent him flying, right into the destroyed building that housed his lion.

"I-I thank you" The old man bowed as much as he could with the wounded dog in his arms. "I am Boodle, the Mayor"

"Where are all the citizens?" asked Nami

"Hiding, when the pirates invaded it was terrifying. We couldn't fight against that cannon of his, so we retreated"

Nami glowered "damn pirates"

The mayor turned back to the destroyed house "this store…" the small dog in his arms wined, having woken up.

"Was this your home?" asked Luffy as he gave the little thing a pat on the head.

"He belonged to a good friend of mine that used to run this store, unfortunately he passed away, but this little guy wouldn't leave, even when the pirates attacked. I've been sneaking back here to make sure he was alright."

Luffy marched into the mess, a determined glint in his eyes.

"I'm sorry I didn't get here sooner" I apologized. The Dog wined again but licked my fingers.

"Thank you, for showing up at all" the mayor sighed. "This town… it was my dream. We built this up with our own two hands. When I was just a child we were merely a village."

Some rocks dislodged from the rubble, we all turned to see Luffy climb out, a small bag of feed in hand. "Sorry, this was all I could save"

The dog licked his fingers as well.

"Those bastards" cried the mayor. Suddenly I found myself with an arm full of fur and blood. "I'm going to give them a piece of my mind!"

"You'll get killed!" Nami tried to reason with the stubborn old man

"I thank you for your help but this is my town I will take it back!" the man didn't get two steps before Luffy chopped him in the head, the poor old man collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

"Dumbass" my captain muttered. "He's got people to protect" Luffy secured his straw hat and started marching back the way we came. The dog wined at the fallen figure but I kept him in my hands "don't worry your friend will be fine" I scratched him behind the ears "Luffy'll take care of this"

I followed in step behind the raven haired teen, his back straight and determined I couldn't help but smile. Nami it seemed was at a loss of words.

"Come on" I edged her forward with a smile "let's kick some ass"

Zoro was just waking up from his nap when we got back. I made quick work of cleaning what I could of the little dog's wounds and bound him up with the leftover first aid supplies.

"You all are crazy" Nami said suddenly. Zoro strapped his swords securely to his waist, he could tell there was a fight coming without having to ask.

"Then stay behind" the swordsmen snapped

Luffy ignored their squabble, fists clenched and unclenched. "People who trample on other's dreams are the worst. These guys are just itching for a fight." He grinned "so let's give them a good one."

The dog stayed behind, but I could tell he was rooting for us. Nami was hesitant and followed quite a bit behind us.

"Bleeding anymore Zoro?" I quipped

"All healed up, told you I just needed some sleep" the three of us marched back into the square, the pirates were there waiting for us. The lion and his tamer were there, wounds wrapped, I was surprised the lion was still alive and when he caught sight of me the cat cowered.

"So the kid, Pirate Hunter Zoro, a girl and the witch have come back. I hope's to beg for your life. Unfortunately I'm not that nice of a person" the captain clown laughed.

"That's our Captain Buggy!"

"The man who is going to be the Pirate King!" his crew cheered and japed at us.

Luffy stilled "so you think you're going to be the king?" he grinned "no way, that'll be me!"

The clown bustled and raved "Like a little brat like you can beat me!"

"Don't underestimate me! I'm gonna be King of the Pirates!" Luffy roared, hands on his hips.

"You're so annoying! You remind me of that red haired bastard, you've even got that similar hat!"

It turns out that the clown pirate used to travel with Shanks, Luffy's idol who gave him his now signature Straw Hats years ago and challenged him to the Grand Line.

This just spurred Luffy on, the more Buggy cursed Shanks the more Luffy just wanted to pound him. And his crew wasn't any help, yelling out japs and insults. Buggy moved first and charged Luffy head on, and that started the fight.

Zoro encountered another swordsmen, apparently one of Buggy's first mates. The other fur wearing one was out cold, the idiot tried to take me on again, and was too easy to slap him into a stone wall next to his beloved lion who passed out just from my grin.

I kept half an eye on Luffy's fight. Seemed like the idiot Buggy ate a devil fruit, and blamed eating it on Shanks. I'm not entirely sure what fruit it was but Buggy was able to slice his body parts apart like they were cut off and move them around with no problems. Nami had gone off at some point, I think investigating the pirate's treasure.

I was just clearing up the loud and annoying grunts, they were easy picking as I just zig-zagged through the crowd, making them punch each other or themselves. I was just finishing up when I heard Luffy scream "Boshi!

A quick glance over and Luffy was standing still, eyes darkened by his long bangs. Buggy was stomping on the yellow Straw Hat, laughing and jeering.

"Stop" Luffy's voice was cold.

"You want me to stop? Why don't you do it yourself? I'll shred this blasting thing once and for all" a knife held between his fingers was thrown, I moved quickly and swiped the hat up out from under his dirty boot, throwing the clown off balance in the process and went to Luffy's side. I brushed off what dirt I could but it looked like some of the straw had ripped while being stomped on.

"Sorry Luffy… I wasn't fast enough…" I said quietly and passed the hat over.

Luffy looked at it quietly and the glare he sent to Buggy should have turned him to stone.

"That's enough, Shanks is a good friend to me, and he gave me this hat. It's a symbol of my dream. I won't let you run over it any longer" he placed the hat on my head "I'll be right back."

I stepped back as Luffy got serious with his fight, Zoro had finished off and limped over to the side lines, some new cuts adorned his arms, and the older puncture wound was bleeding again.

"Just need more sleep" he said.

"Hai, Hai" I smirked.

Luffy was getting annoyed with the clown who wouldn't stay in one spot and in one piece. His hands were flying everywhere throwing knives, his top half also sending off handless punches that looked like they were doing nothing other than annoy my Capitan. While the lower half was planted squarely in spot. From behind the fight I saw the ginger hair of Nami sneak up and kick the Clown where the sun don't shine. He was knocked over and winded while Luffy grimaced and yelled at Nami saying it was a dirty trick.

Now buggy seemed to have half his attention on Nami, and the other On Luffy, half of his body too… But Nami was pretty quick on her feet and with a pair of rope. While Buggy was busy with Luffy she wrapped up the separate parts of his body that were scattered around in a net.

"That's enough!" Buggy yelled "Assemble!" the pirate Capitan tried to call all his body parts together to finish Luffy off but with Nami trapping most of them all that he connected to was a big of leg, his two feet, hands and head. Making him a demented appendage man.

Everyone burst into laughter as Buggy wailed and failed around.

"Hey Melody!" Nami motioned to her net of body parts, holding them down with only a hand.

"Fore!" I yelled and ran over, giving the bundle a swift kick. It flew off into the distance.

"Twenty points!" Zoro called.

I fist pumped that air. "Yeah!"

Luffy joined in with a Gomu-Gomu Bazooka that send the rest of Buggy off in the opposite direction.

Since it definitely went farther than my kick both Zoro and I called out a twenty-two.

Nami sighed, and shook her head in exasperation.

Luffy just grinned.

Soon after the town's people raced onto the scene, being led by the white dog. "Where are you pirates!" they chanted and yelled, makeshift weapons of pots, pans, and even some farming equipment in hand.

Almost immediately they tried to descend on us, until the old man mayor also showed up and calmed everyone down.


Zoro, Luffy and I were back at the docks as the townspeople wrapped their heads around their sudden freedom.

"Looks like the girl won't be joining us" said Zoro as he undid the ropes keeping the boat in place.

"No, Nami's coming" Luffy stated with a grin, he was standing in the boat. I smiled, the ginger had hung around a bit after the fight but disappeared into the building the pirates were using as a base, and that was close to an hour ago.

"She said she'd be back" Luffy turned to look back towards the town "look! There she is"

Behind me I heard Zoro sigh.

Nami stopped on the deck beside me, two large bags obviously filled with treasure of some sort were dropped on either side of her. "Nami!" Luffy cheered

She smiled at us and crossed her arms. "Look, I won't join your crew but I think we can be of some use to each other" I just smirked, this is only a first step to her joining permanently. "So let's travel together, at least for a little while."

"Yatta!" Luffy cheered "Another Nakama!"

Nami went to yell at him when I put a hand on her shoulder "just roll with it"

With the boat all packed up we shipped off. Luffy took up his stop at the front, and Zoro and I sat by the mast while Nami finished putting the boat on course. Wind filled the sails and the island was soon just a speck in the distance. The sun was high in the sky and the boat rocked slowly. My eyes drooped but I could see that Zoro had succumb to sleep and I decided that a nap would be good. The lapping of the waves finally pulled me under but not before I heard Nami start to yell at Luffy about her left behind treasure.


Four relatively peaceful days passed aboard the boat, other than the few arguments between Nami and Zoro and the many annoyed yells from Nami at Luffy. I thankfully had somewhat avoided confrontation with Nami. Though a good point on her was that she was able to fix up Luffy's hat, sewing together the ripped straw and now it looked as good as ever.

The Ginger kept us on course for the next island, good thing too since we were running low of supplies again, the four of us needed a good meal soon and the fact that we weren't going to be able to travel the Grand Line in this little boat.

Nami was sitting on the bench with a map in hand, Zoro was napping as usual and Luffy was just watching the ocean, for once quiet.

"We should see the next island in about an hour" said Nami, she packed up her maps and stretched "I'll be happy to get some real food." My stomach growled in agreement. Luffy turn from the sea, grin plastered across his face "we're gonna have an adventure!"

"We're going to have to get an actual ship, maybe someone on the island will be able to give us one" I looked around our boat. With the four of us it was crowded, only two people could sleep in the little cabin with the supplies, though Nami was the only one to use it so far. Luffy Zoro and I didn't mind sleeping among the benches under the stars. The weather's been great too.

"So Melody" Nami bent forward, hands holding her chin up and resting on her knees "I've worked out that you guys picked up Zoro from a Marine Base, but how did Luffy wrangle you into this adventure?"

I grinned "I've known Luffy for the last ten years. We grew up together"

"And he's been like this the whole time?"

"Yep" I laughed "ever since I met him he proclaimed his dream to be the Pirate King. It still makes my heart race whenever he yells it to the world" we looked towards the captain, laughing with Zoro about something and watching the horizon carefully.

"Well, you can't deny his dedication" sighed Nami, then she seemed to get a glint in her eye "So…you've known each other for a long time… is there anything going on between the two of you?"

It took me a second to realise what she was asking "oh, we'—"

"Land-Ho!" Luffy's yell cut me off. He was jumping up and down pointing out to an island. "Hurry up! Let's get there fast!" he turned around grinning. Distracted by Luffy, Nami and I didn't continue our conversation and instead got ready for landing, according to Nami it was a small island, and she wasn't sure if there was going to be a dock to land at. It was a long fifteen minute wait until we pulled the small boat onto a stretch of beach. I pulled off my shoes and jumped onto the sand, tugging the boat just a little bit more onto the beach. Nami and Zoro were looking around while Luffy was just jumping up and down in excitement.

"There's supposed to be a small village around here" said Nami

"Food!" Cheered Luffy "let's get some food!"

But when we were about to leave the beach a voice called out from behind some bushes "Pirates! You are not welcome here! This is your last warning! Leave now or face the wrath of my 10 thousand men!" Little stick men with paper plate heads popped up from the bushes around us.

"Cool! You really have 10 thousand men!?" Luffy cheered

I could tell whoever was behind the voice was grinning "of course because I am the great captain Usopp a brave warrior of the seas!"

"Liar" Nami said dryly "those are just sticks…"

"Ahh! She caught on to me!"

"A witch!"

"She must be a witch!"

Along with the captain Usopp's voice there were kids hiding with him. "Run away!" they screamed and we could see them dart down a path behind the bushes.

"E-even though you've seen though my trick I the great Captain Usopp will not let you raid this village!" The kid stood up, he had curly black hair being held back by a bandana. Spiny legs and arms he looked about our age and was wearing brown overalls. The most prominent thing about him was the long nose.

"We don't want to raid it…" said Luffy "we just want some food"

"Oh…."

There was a beat of awkward silence until Usopp erupted into laughter "oh, is that all. You're not Pirates at all!"

"No" I said as the four of us started to walk past him "we're pirates"

"What?!"

"shi shi shi you're funny" Laughed Luffy.

The poor teen was shaking in his boots the whole way to the only restaurant in the village. It was a quiet place, looked like they barely got any visitors, lots of hills as we walked I noticed a large mansion sitting on the edge of the village, maybe they would have a boat for us. As we sat and ate Usopp confirmed my thoughts that the mansion was the only place that would be able to give us a boat, but only a sick little girl lived there.

"We might as well forget getting a ship here then" sighed Nami. Luffy grinned either way "We're in no rush anyway, let's get some meat for our supplies!" he finished off his dish and leant back into the booth, Nami and Zoro across from us watched him "and maybe there's someone who'll join us…"

Usopp laughed "if you want a companion! Let me be the captain and I'll join!"

"No thanks" the four of us said, nearly all in-sync.

"Fine then" he turned up his nose "I've got to get going anyway, see you around!" and he quickly dashed out the door.

"What a strange kid" said Zoro

"Not as strange as Luffy" Nami scoffed and placed her elbows on the table as Luffy laughed.

"I think he's funny" I chimed in and I motioned to the server for some drinks.

Not long after the Curly haired teen left, the three kids who ditched him by the water barged in, the servers didn't seem too bothered, maybe they did this daily.

Zoro decided to play a prank on them, which led them to thinking we had eaten their captain. It didn't work out very well for Nami because they called her an old witch. Once they had calmed down though the three had some pretty good information about the village to share, like how Usopp practically lies every hour about something or other but it was all to cheer up the little sick girl stuck in the mansion.

"So he's actually a pretty great guy" Luffy hummed, I could already tell he was thinking of asking him to join us, he was pretty amusing and according to the kids a sharp shooter.

"It's all thanks to the captain that she's feeling better already!" one of the kids grinned.

"Well, that's it!" Luffy stood "We're going to the mansion to ask for a ship!"

"You can't just ask for one" Nami sighed

"It won't hurt to try…" I stood as well

"Let's go then" Zoro shoved Nami out of the booth, which cost him a lump on his head.

I laughed, once outside the kids ran off and the four of us started towards the large white mansion. Luffy whistled a song the whole way.