One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda
Warning: contains some curses
The Pirate Queens
Chapter 3: The Orange Thief
In the middle of the ocean a fairly small boat was sailing the sea, and its occupants were counting the treasure on the ship itself. On the mast of the ship was a small black flag with a clown jolly roger on it, actually the three people of the boat looked a lot more like dirty circus performers rather than pirates as jolly roger represented.
"Ha! Look at all this loot!" they laughed.
"And it only took us two days! Buggy will be so proud of us!"
"Hey what's that?" one of them looked towards the sea, and saw a small boat coming towards them. It took awhile for the actual boat to come close to them, and when it did the occupants took the chance to take a look. A lone woman looking close to her 20's, she had short orange hair, and gentle facial features she was however asleep or passed out. She wore a white T-Shirt, light blue jeans, and blue sandals. The occupants decided to gawk at her body before doing anything. One was bold enough to shake her to get her awake, and it worked.
"Oh finally a rescue~" the woman pleaded. "Please I've been on this ship for days, I'm out of food and water I'm willing to pay you for helping me." She then pointed towards a small fancy looking chest, it wasn't that amazing but it still could have a lot of treasure in it.
"Alright let's get you in our boat, but first tell us how to open that chest of yours," one of them said slyly helping her inside their boat.
"Oh just turn the lever," she replied. The other two got inside the rowboat to check out the chest, one of then turned the small lever and it strangely made a sound. It turns it was a spin lever and kept turning it while listening to the fairly familiar jingle it made, and then... it really wasn't treasure at all, just a small toy cannonball that shot out smoke. It happened fast enough for the two to be surprised by however.
"Hey What the-" the other one with the girl was attacked and knocked onto the rowboat with the other two. The girl just kicked the boat away and started laughing.
"I got that one after being inspired by someone," she said. "You can keep it if you want though. Just so you know they'll be strong storms later, that boat you have won't last long suckers. See Ya"
"You Bitch! Get back here!" They shouted trying to jump out the boat, but suddenly a burst of wind flip the boat and its occupants.
"Oh right did I mention strong winds!" she laughed sailing away from the struggling pirates. Floating aimlessly through the ocean, Zoro, Ace, and Luffy were relaxing on their second day at sea... without food.
"Man I'm starving," Ace complained as her stomach growled.
"Christ how did we forget to bring food," Zoro complained. Luffy was standing up and scanning the seas to hopefully find land, and distract her growing hunger. But she finally succumbed to it, as she was getting dizzy in the head.
"Zoro~" Luffy then collapsed on top of Zoro, and an audible groan of pain came from the man.
"Luffy what the hell!" Zoro shouted at her, Ace's eye twitched a bit when he yelled at her.
"I'm hungry!" Luffy moaned.
"What can I do!" Zoro asked sarcastically. "It's not my fault we forgot to get food."
"...This is no good," Ace spoke up. "At this rate if we don't eat soon we may have to eat Zoro..."
"Why the hell does it have to be me?" Zoro shouted at her.
"Well think about it, Luffy's made of rubber so she's too chewy, and I'm made of fire not very appetizing," Ace explained. "Since you have normal flesh and along with those muscles your the best option we have."
"No Ace!" Luffy shouted and hugged Zoro in an almost possessive way. "We can't eat Zoro he's our first mate." Zoro blushed a bit as he felt Luffy's massive chest against him. Ace then crawled towards him on all fours.
"Why I bet he'll be tasty," Ace leaned dangerously close to Zoro, almost scaring him. Without hesitation she bit Zoro's neck lightly, making Zoro jump with a flushed face.
"What the fuck is with you!" Zoro yelled at Ace.
"Ace I said we won't be eating him," Luffy yelled at her as well.
"We may not have a choice, besides he does taste good," Ace licked her lips in a flirtatious way, making Zoro's hair to stand on end.
"Yea we do," Luffy got up confidently and looked at the sky and saw a bird flying in the sky. "We can eat that bird!" With no hesitation what-so-ever she launched towards the bird... but she didn't come down.
"..." Ace and Zoro were silent as they Luffy fly away in the bird's mouth... "Luffy You Idiot!" they yelled, and Zoro grabbed the oars and began rowing to chase the bird. Ace tried to shoot it down with her fire bullets, but it wasn't working. A little always the three pirates who were tricked out of their loot and treasure, swimming with blank expressions. Then they noticed the boat Ace and Zoro were on, speeding towards them.
"Hey help us!" they called for help.
"Castaways? At a time like this?" Zoro grumbled still rowing as fast as he could.
"Don't stop rowing!" Ace ordered. "We can't stop, just jump on!" the boat nearly nearly rammed the three, but they safely landed in the boat.
"Ha ha, now give us this boat and your treasure," the three brandished their knives at the two. Zoro stopped suddenly and gave a deadly stare at them, and in no time at all they were rowing the boat for them.
"We're very sorry, we never thought you were the pirate hunter Zoro," they laughed as they continued rowing. "And is this your sweet-heart?"
"Naw, I'm not his type, he's into big tits," Ace whispered, but Zoro heard anyway.
"Ah is that so," the pirates continued cowardly laughing.
"Well unfortunately we don't have a lot of time for small talk," Ace explained. "So if you don't keep rowing I'll be sure to turn you three into cinders." Ace then demonstrated this by turning her fist into flames, scaring the three considerably as they rowed as fast they could.
"Hey don't go showing that off," Zoro warned her.
"Why not?" Ace asked.
"Because not everyone has ever seen a devil fruit user," Zoro explained to Ace, and just stared at her as she pouted at him.
"Fine kill joy~" Ace whined. Elsewhere with Luffy, she was just hanging there by her head on the giant bird's beak with her arms crossed. She was thinking of every way to get down without drowning to the seas below, but she was thinking too hard to notice she was over land by now. It finally hit her, when she heard the sound of a gunshot, and her falling from the sky and landing painfully on the ground below. But it turns out she literally fell into something when she got up, cause she was between a group of pirates and a orange haired woman.
"What the hell?" one pirate said astonished. "She fell from the sky."
"..." the orange haired woman was shocked, but she used this to her advantage, as she walked up to her. "Oh, boss!Thank you for coming to help me."
"Who are you?" Luffy asked her.
"Your with her?" another pirate asked walking up to Luffy, at the same time the woman ran away.
"I'll leave them to you!" she shouted getting further away.
"Hey shouldn't we go after her?"
"We don't have to since her boss is here," they surrounded Luffy as she was processing everything that just happened. "Your going to pay for that 'boss,'" one pirate hit her across the head, causing Luffy's hat to come off her head. At that point Luffy saw flashes of precious memories, and reacted by landing a hard punch square in the pirate's face and finally catching her hat in her free hand.
"Don't you dare touch my hat," she stated clearly, but before the others could react she also gave the other two the same punishment as the first.
"Wow your really strong," Luffy heard a voice above her, and it was the woman from earlier from atop a roof. "My name's Nami, a thief who only steals from pirates. How 'bout we team up? Girls gotta stick together y'know?"
"I'm sorry not interested," Luffy replied walking away.
"Hey wait a minute, let's go eat somewhere," Nami offered.
"Food!?" Luffy became immediately interested. After awhile Luffy told Nami about her current predicament, while eating some apples.
"So you got seperated from your crew, and out of all the ways to do it," Nami sighed at the almost impossible story she just heard. "So how many people are in it?"
"Only three, including me," Luffy replied. "How about you is this your house?"
"Unfortunately no," Nami answered. "The entire town has been run out, thanks to the infamous Pirate Captain Buggy."
"So we're stealing the food while the townspeople are away," Luffy inputted.
"Don't compare me to common thieves Luffy," Nami explained. "I have a certain goal, and I'm going to achieve that goal by stealing from pirates, and this map of the Grand line will help me."
"By any chance can you navigate?" Luffy asked.
"Yep, I happen to be best when it comes down to navigating," Nami praised herself.
"That's great then you can join us, we needed a navigator anyway," Luffy smiled, but this somehow appalled Nami.
"By any chance are you a pirate?" Nami asked her.
"Yeah," Luffy replied still smiling happily.
"No, forget everything I didn't think you were a pirate," Nami said in disgust.
"What's so wrong with being a pirate?" Luffy wondered as to why Nami was mad when she said she was a pirate.
"Pirates are low-lives and disgusting," Nami pointed out. "There is no consequence when you do steal from them, because you know they did some terrible thing to get their treasure. I only like money and oranges, pirates can go to hell."
"... There is nothing wrong with being a pirate, that I know of, at least," Luffy explained.
"Tell you what, I'll think about your offer under one condition," Nami slyly said.
"Sure!" Luffy excitedly said. If only she thought about it more, because she was tied up by Nami, in the middle of the apparent Buggy Pirates, in front of their captain.
"Well what do we have here?" the voice of the captain that came through the dark tents, was rough and sly.
I'm sorry it took so long for me to update, but I have been all too busy with things. But I'm not planning to stop, especially since I'm going to begin writing two stories for the price of one, to make up for the wait time. The first one was for the contest in the last chapter so here it is:
-Ace has lived an average life so far, making good friends, having a great family, and a decent job. Until one day he finds a strange box in the woods, and what follows wasn't anything he could have ever dreamed of. From his new intrusive neighbor, a strange cult coming after him, and being able to control fire at will. And that's just scraping the surface.
What do you think? The one that won was the witch story (I still haven't figured out a name unfortunately), so I'll be posting that when the fifth chapter of "The Pirate Queens," comes out, and the vampire story will be coming out when the tenth chapter comes out. And the new story I'm making will be a surprise. So please tell me what you thought on both this chapter and the new story (I'm willing to take title suggestions.)