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blackfirekingkoncor: That is kinda the reason for her being nervous but not entirely. And no she isn't in love with him. It's sorta like you meet a hot girl at school and her personality is really good as well and you are kinda in that stage of having a crush, but not quite there. The other reason for her being nervous will be said in this chapter.
Three years later
3rd POV
"Surrender or face the consequences." yelled the marine captain.
"Oi Lucy what do we do about this. We have been blown of course by the wind and no where near the baratie. Then you fire off cannons alerting the marines in the area where we are. Could you make this anymore worse?" yelled a certain swordsman.
"I told you I'm sorry."
"He's right Lucy, could you sit quietly for once?" replied a certain navigator.
"I was bored though."
"I don't want to say this one more time! Surrender or face the consequences! If you do not surrender we will fire at you!" yelled to marine captain once again.
"Uh sir, I don't think they are paying any attention to us." a marine soldier said to the captain.
"Then fire a cannon to get there attention." ordered the marine captain.
The sound of a cannon firing brought the attention to the straw hats. "I got it!" yelled Lucy as she launches herself into the air. "Gomu Gomu no Fusen!" yelled Lucy. Lucy's body is blown up with air making her seem like a balloon. The cannon hits her chest redirecting towards the ship's hull. Destroying everything in the lower decks.
While Lucy was taking care of the cannon the swordsman jumps on the deck to take out all of the marines. Lucy follows the swordsman and lands on the deck of the marine ship to fight alongside the swordsman. They then proceed to take out all of the marines.
1st POV
I wake up to a cannon blowing past me a few inches in front of my face. I get up in a hurry in order to dodge more cannons that come through. After I gather my surroundings and make it clear that no more cannons are coming through, I try to find an exit to the cell I am in. Turns out the first cannon shot made an exit for me breaking multiple cages including mine in the process. All the other prisoners have escaped and I'm guessing all the patrolling marines have gone to chase them or to escape.
The cannon shot made it sure that no person was in the room and unfortunately for me the shot destroyed all of the keys to my arm shackles. I got lucky and got a cage towards the middle making me a harder target for cannons.
After waking up enough I leave the prison. It didn't take me long to get a full understanding of the ship.
3rd POV
The pair have done a big number on the marines. All of the marines on the ship have been ordered to take care of the intruders. Some have been asked to take care of the escaped prisoners.
"Sir, he has escaped. The marines you sent to take care of him has said he had escaped."
said a marine grunt to his captain.
"Shit! As if this could go any worse. We didn't want that man at all to escape! We even chained him up in Kairoseki even though he isn't a devil fruit user!" The marine captain yelled. "MEN, if that prisoner is on the main deck, ignore the intruders and with your full power, kill that man!"
Three more of the intruders have gone onto the deck. A guy with a long nose, a guy with sunglasses and black hair, and a girl with short orange hair.
"Oi! They have someone really dangerous on their ship. You two! Once you are finished we need to get out of here as fast as we can!" yelled the the one with the long nose.
"I think we should listen to him! If the marines are scared of him even with shackles then he must be hella strong!" yelled the guy with the sunglasses.
"Why are you even here if you aren't going to help!?" asked the swordsman in a yell.
A young marine just jumped from the stairs leading to the lower decks. He looked as if he was running from the devil himself. "He-he-he-he is coming." he said before he passed out from fright.
At that moment everyone on the upper deck could hear the stairs creaking as someone comes up. All the marines froze up and stopped what they were doing to slowly aim at the stairs. The marine captain draws his sword and clutches it tightly. "Everyone get ready. He is coming." he says trying to refrain from stuttering.
In a single flash the man coming from the stairs runs at the marine captain and kicks him in the chest sending him flying into the sea within only one second.
"What the hell!? How can he cross the deck within only a second!?" yelled one marine. "He isn't human!" yelled another. All of the marines not bothering to shoot at the man standing at the railing who just kicked their captain tens of meters out into the ocean.
"So, the real battle begins here." the pirate swordsman said, readying his swords.
The man was still in his sideways kick stance. He lowers it and slowly turns around readying for another attack.
He exposes himself to everyone else showing what he looked like. He had on a t-shirt and shorts. He also wore high sports socks and sandals. He had dark, messy, red hair and dark red eyes. He stood at a stature of 188 centimeters with a lazy look on his face.
Both the man and the swordsman take stances of readying to fight only to be stopped by the pirate captain among us.
"Oh, it's been awhile August! Shishishi." said Lucy.
Everyone else responds with "EHHHHHHHH!"
1st POV
"Yo Lucy. It's been three years hasn't it?" I say.
"Yeah it has. Shishishi."
"Oi Lucy how do you know him?" says the guy with the long nose.
"He's a friends of mine. I met him when he landed from the sky on my island." Lucy says "Oi August will you join my crew?"
"That is one of the first things you have to say after we meet again after three years. No how are you? What have you been up to for the past three years?"
"You said that if we met again after three years you would join my crew." she continues "So will you join my crew?"
"Lets get to that later. Are these your comrades?" trying to avoid the evident answer.
"Ah yeah I forgot" she replied.
"I'm Zoro" said the swordsman.
"I'm Usopp, the captain of the crew." he said smugly. "Oi, I'm the captain." Lucy said.
"I'm Nami, the navigator." Nami said. I stopped on her and had to cover my nose slightly in case of a nosebleed to come.
"I'm Johnny, a legendary bounty hunter along with my brother Yosaka which is on their pirate ship." said the guy with sunglasses. Already knowing why the two were there I decided to skip questioning what he was doing.
I completely forgot about the marines that were there until one of the braver ones shot bullets into the air. All the other marines seemed to hate him at that moment as they had been sneaking away while we were talking.
"Why don't we finish up businesses here." says Zoro.
…
After we finished taking care of the marines we departed from the area on the Straw Hat's ship the Going Merry. Before we all got comfortable, Usopp decided it would be better to interview me similar to how he did with Robin. He still didn't trust me fully even though I am friends with Lucy.
"What is your name and age?"
"My name is August and I am 18."
"How did you know Lucy before?"
"She explained it well enough. I landed on her island and we became friends after her friend on the island healed me. I just left because I wanted to train for three years before I wanted to become a pirate."
"You landed on her island? Why were you even in the air?"
"I messed up and I got fired by a cannon from North Blue to East Blue."
"Uh, okay. What is your occupation?"
"A strategist or information broker."
"Do you have experience in pirating before now?"
"I was a pirate for three years before so I wouldn't be considered a rookie."
"Have you done anything overly horrible to make the population horrible?"
"All I've ever done that would be considered illegal is being a pirate. I haven't killed anyone if that is what you mean?" the interview started to trigger old memories I didn't want to remember. "Is that all. Are you convinced that I won't murder the entire crew."
"Yes. Is there something wrong with trying to be safe."
"You say you are a pirate but wouldn't that mean you are always in danger?"
"Don't go to specifics here."
I decide to change the topic. "So where are we going?"
"We are going to the baratie. It's supposed to be a really good restaurant on the sea."
…
3rd POV
It was almost midnight and Lucy and Usopp were the only ones awake. Lucy had gotten up to get a midnight snack and Usopp was wide awake thinking about how dangerous could August be.
Lucy tried sneaky back into her hammock before being asked by Usopp "Other than what you said before about August and what he said, is there anything else you can say about him?"
"Eh, how did you know I was awake." Lucy responded surprised.
"Just answer my question."
"I suppose you have sensed his presence. It's almost dominating like he is really strong. But he has always had that. When I first asked him to join my crew, I was nervous because his presence was so different, as if he was a really strong pirate like the Pirate King's."
A/N: Chapter three is out. I meant to upload this yesterday and have chapter four today but I didn't realize I was going to be busy. Still dropping hints of what August's path could be about. This chapter was meant to be short as it is when he first joins the crew. The chapters should get to about chapter three's length after this chapter. Favorite and/or Follow if you enjoyed and review if you want to convey thoughts or ask questions about the series. Peace.