Sorry for the wait folks and yes Rosemary will meet the former Strawhat Pirates but not in this Saga.
In the food cellar…
"Food, Hooray!" cheered the Kuja girl with lilt up eyes, as she ran around the room with her mouth drooling. Kevin made sure no one had heard them and he watched her dig into some fruit.
Rosemary, Orochi and Kevin made it into the storage room so that that Rose and her snake could chow down on some tasty apples she found. The Chore Boy tried to get the girl to hide but she refused because she was hungry and had given up. He thought this girl was crazy but still surprised that this beautiful girl could spin into a mini-twister, break swords in half, catch bullets from mid-air and take out to 5 grown men like they were nothing. It was all so fast he barely saw it and thought he imagined the whole thing but he could tell she was strong, he watched the Strawhat girl murder an entire create full of apples and decided to find out more about her.
"These apples are amazing" she thought out loud, as she wiped apple juice off her lips with a elegant tongue.
"So what's your name?" he asked, as Lucy gobbled on apples as if there were no tomorrow, before introducing himself. "I'm Kevin, hey that was pretty cool you did out there."
The Strawhat girl turned to the 'fro boy.
"Oh! Wara wa Rosemary but you can call me Rose" she said in an uncharacteristically polite tone before turning back to her childish self. "Nice to meet you, Kev, by the way, I wanna know if you have a little boat, can you can spare one?"
:D
"Hai, I think we have a few lifeboats but how come you were in that barrel, anyway?" the walking bobblehead asked wondering what she was in there.
"Yeah that, my old boat got sucked into a whirlpool while I was sailing but me and Orochi survived" she said, as simply as that.
"YOU WERE CAUGHT IN A GIANT WHIRLPOOL!" Kevin screamed.
"Yeah, it was nothing, really" Rose had her dad's toothy grin and laughed. "Chahahaha! What other reason, do you think I was hiding in that barrel?"
D:
Kevin could hardly believe the girl wasn't dead, even experienced men wouldn't manage to survive that. All the Chore Boy could do was stare at the girl in bewilderment, as if she wasn't human. This Rosemary girl somehow endured a harsh swirl of death and lived to tell the tale. But he couldn't help but smile at her, she seemed like a nice girl. Then, his thought was soon cut short when he heard the girl speak again.
"Say where I am anyway? Is this a pirate ship or some crazy battleground boat?" she asked, as she tilted her head to the right, cutely.
"Oh no, we're on the St. Anna, a cruise ship but it seems to be being attacked by Captain Hanson and the Wonderful Pirates" Kevin replied, with a serious tone.
"Ah, I see, I don't care about that" said the raven-haired girl, shocking him. "So are you a pirate, too, or one of the hostages?" Rose asked, as she continued to eat.
Kevin replied by shaking his head, as he looked down.
:D
"Neither, they haven't caught me and I'm certainly not some pirate scum" he replied, adding emphasis to the last part. "I'm the Chore Boy around here, after I left home I thought this was marine ship so I could join the Marines. After I stowedaway on it they found but I only discovered after I took the job as Chore Boy it was for cruise ship instead" Kevin explained to Rose, as he slouched down next to her against the wall.
Rose looked at him blankly for moment blinking a few times before smiling.
"Sheesh, you're such a stupid idiot, you know that?" she told plainly.
"Gee, thanks for your honesty (!)" he murmured sarcastically, as he sunk his head lower. "I decided after that I could use some extra cash and place to stay before I become a Marine so I took the job, I've been here for 2 months, now."
"Isn't that long enough to find the Marines to ask to join?" the Strawhat girl questioned.
"I had several chances to go to ask to join them… but everytime one of the Marines makes fun of my afro and I… get into a fight with them, then, I get kicked out…"
"You maybe thick but you sound really funny, I wish I could've seen that!" she grinned, before laughing out loud. "CHAAAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Kevin could do nothing but cry (anime style) and sulk. So much for being a nice girl...
This girl had no idea how humiliated he felt from being thrown out by the place were his dream could become a reality and her boastful laughing wasn't helping. It was his dream to become part of the navy it wasn't his fault some pricks provoked him on his hair.
:D
While he was moping, Orochi was helping himself to some dumplings.
"Rose-sama you should learn to be more sensitive, you know" the snake sighed.
"By the way, what made you sail on the sea anyway, Rose?" the afro boy questioned, after the she calmed down.
"Me? Well… I'm going to be the King of the Pirates" she said with big, toothy grin.
Saying that Kevin was shocked would be the understatement of the day. To become the King of the Pirates… that had got to be the craziest thing he had ever heard. This girl was clearly out of her mind.
D:
"WHAT?! The KING OF THE PIRATES?!" the Chore Boy shouted, with a dropped jaw and a raspy voice. "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"
"Yep! That's right!" Rosemary smiled, before thinking about it a bit more. "Well, Queen of the Pirates, technically."
"BUT, BUT, NO WAY!" Kevin shouted again. "HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT? DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH?! TO BECOME KING…"
"Queen," Rosemary corrected.
"To become QUEEN of the Pirates!" Kevin continued in a calmer voice. "The only way to do that is to complete the 'Ultimate Kaizoku Challenge'. That's to find the most valuable, most elusive treasure in the world that brings wealth fame and power beyond your wildest dreams... the one that every pirate in all the seas is looking for: THE ONE PIECE!" he shouted.
"And so am I" Rosemary said.
:D
"Queen of the Pirates... b-b-but then that m-m-means… you're a…Pirate, t-t-too?" he asked, in a much more nervous tone.
"Yep, you got it."
Her? A pirate?
She didn't seem like she was lying or with the Wonderful Pirates. But to the young man the image of a pirate was a big, burly, ugly man weighing 400 lbs, not a pretty, little girl. But regardless she's still a pirate and therefore a threat to everybody on the ship, including himself.
Just before the Strawhat girl could a cookie from a box, the afro guy grabbed the whole thing from her reach and held it defensively.
"Oi! give it back!"
"N-no way!" he said with a scowl. "You've had enough! I may have brought you in… but won't allow a pirate to take any more food than she needs!"
At that moment, the daughter of Boa Hancock got down on her hands and knees and started crawling towards the blushing puffball.
"Please ~ I just want the whole box ~" she asked cutely, with a finger on her full lips which formed a small smile.
"Wow~ she looks really pretty when she smiles like that-" he thought with a blush before shaking himself to his senses. "AH, what are you doing Kevin?! It's just a trick!"
"N-n-no you can't, I'm sorry, but I can't let you" he stuttered while shaking his head from side-to-side.
This caught the pretty girl off guard. He resisted her charms, not immune to it, but very strong-willed nonetheless. Not wanting to be denied some tasty snacks any longer, Rose frowned and got up to her full height, she was a few inches taller than Kevin but the chore boy's afro towered over her. She proceeded to bend her back far enough so that she was looking at the ceiling while pointing at him.
"AS THE FUTURE QUEEN OF THE PIRATES, I DEMAND THAT YOU GIMME THOSE COOKIES!" she commanded to the top of her lungs.
"Oh yeah! Well as the future Fleet Admiral, I will deny you such a privilege!" and with that Kevin held the box over his head and poured them down his throat. "Omnomonomnom!"
The Kuja warrior gasped at this insolence and frowned.
"Oi! Heroes are supposed to share!" she pouted.
"So you expect me to hand over all the delicious food on the ship to you?!"
"Yep!" the girl said while stuffing 10 rice cakes into her mouth before swallowing. "Omnomonomnom!"
"As if someone like you could ever become the Pirate King!" Kevin said while chomping on three apples out of a crate. "The odds in your favour are so small that not even bacteria could see it!"
"First: I told you wanna become the Pirate QUEEN! Second: You're getting annoying, man!" now Rose was chowing down on a whole cow's leg. "Omnomonomnom!"
XD
"You! The next Pirate Queen! Even today in the 'Era of Dreams', that's impossible! It's the most impossible thing I've ever heard!" now the 'fro boy was eating rice cakes. "Omnomonomnom!"
"Oi! You're not one to talk! Becoming the Fleet Admiral just isn't something anyone can do, either" she muffled, while comically swallowing a giant cake whole. "Omnomonomnom!"
"I got a better chance than you do, pirate girl!" he retorted while drinking a bottle of cola.
"Shut up! I'm too hungry to argue with you anymore, I'm just gonna eat all the food you got!" now Rosemary was just stuffing her face with anything her hands could get a hold of at break neck speed.
"Not if I eat it all first!"
Now, Kevin copied the same actions as a the young woman, determined not to let her demolish the ship's food supplies with the only way he knew… by eating it all himself
Kevin = (Idiot) -_-
XD
The food eating contest was being witnessed by Rosemary's pet snake and Nakama, Orochi. He sweatdropped while watching the two foolish humans stuffing themselves until they became comically fat and were reaching for the last cookie just out of their reach, though was surprised the boy could match his master's speed and appetite.
"Sigh* Why does Rose-sama always start fights and befriend weirdoes?" the snake sighed before slithering to the small wind at the top of the room. "Alright, let's see what kind of Snafu my Baka of a master got us into."
1. 'Wara wa' is a more noble version of 'Watashi wa' ("I Am").
2. SNAFU = Situation normal, all fucked up.
Btw Rose's Epithet is a working title I'm open to ideas from my viewers of the name of her crew, too, as along as it has something to do with speed.