Chapter 39: Missing Birds
"You mean it ain't real?!" Dawn asked, her lollipop nearly fell out of her mouth.
"No one knows." Cricket said.
(the scenes are way to long, let just skip to the party)
"Nami-swan! Dinner!" Sanji said as he squeezed between Masira and Shojo.
"I want you folks to call my home your home." Cricket said.
(Later)
"Hey, wait for me!" Raven said, she chased Luffy while he chased Masira.
"You big hairy ape!" Luffy said.
"You, beauty." Cricket said o Luna. "How about you sit near me?"
"Oi, oi, you're 100 years too old to be hitting on my Luna-chan!" Sanji said.
"Aw, thanks for defending me, Sanji-kun." Sanji stared at her with his heart eye, then suddenly fell over with all the food on the try. Dusk held out her tail and caught him. "Nevermind, that was smooth."
So..everyone's having a blast...
"Liar's Dice!" Dawn said to Zoro and Nami. "Play it?"
"Sure."
"Yeah."
She handed them two cups with five dice. They started to play.
(Skip this, let's get to the south bird scene)
"Now go!" Cricket yelled, he threw them all out. "Find that bird!"
"Maybe I should handle this." Raven bragged, drunkly after she took a swig from Zoro's drink. "I can wish for it to come here!"
"Good, you stay and help us out by doing that." Zoro said.
"Loki, watch her." Luna said.
"Yosh."
They all left. Bellamy and his crew made port and came ashore.
"That's all you have, old man, a girl, two apes, and a bird?"
"You punks shouldn't be out here." Cricket said.
"Ain't it passed your curfew?" Masira asked.
"Hand over the gold."
"Why?"
"It ain't yours." Raven said, taking another swig, then shaking her head to stay focused.
"Ah, found you at last!"
"Who says that?" Raven asked, Maca appeared. "Whoa, assassin!"
"Shadow Drag!" Maca grabbed Loki and Raven, the disappeared in black smoke.
(Meanwhile)
"GEEEAAAWWW!"
"Oh, a strange sound." they all said.
"No, really." Dusk said, switched to beast point and leaving. "I'll go solo."
"You think she'll be safe?" Luna asked.
"Yeah, she is a tiger, no reason why she wouldn't know what to do in the jungle." Dawn said. "We split, right?"
"Sounds great, we'll get it faster that way." Sanji said, the all split into three groups. "Don't worry, Nami-swan and Luna-chan. I'll protect you two."
"You'll protect me too, Sanji-love?" Usopp asked. (when anyone says someone's name and ends it in love, like Sanji-love, it ain't gay. hippies used to say names that way sometimes)
"Get off me, wuss."
"Wait! Y-you hear that?"
"ROOOAAARRR!" Dusk jumped in front of them, they screamed.
"Tiger!" they ran off while Dusk rolled on the ground laughing.
"Okay, we lost track, we have to listen for it again." Luna said, she laid on the ground.
"Geeeeeaaawwww...geeeeeaaawwww." Usopp said.
"Could you stop that?" Nami asked.
"Hey, where'd you get that?" Luna asked. A spider was on Nami's shorts.
"Eep! I hate spiders!" she and Sanji fled to the nearest bush. Luna smiled at the spider and picked it up.
"That's a cute thing." Usopp said.
"C'mon, you guys, how can you even touch it?" Sanji asked.
"My dad used to study them."
"I used to play with them, why are you under those spider webs? I thought you hated bugs."
Sanji and Nami flipped out and ran off.
"Hey, wait!" the two yelled.
(Somewhere)
SLASH!
Dawn sighed while Zoro killed yet another poor bug. "You know, swordsmen aren't supposed to kill everything we meet, it's rude."
"What do you know? I barely even see you fight." Zoro said.
"That's becausse I don't whip my kanatas at everyting I see." Dawn took out her two swords and pretended to fight. "Oh, a tree! Must I cut it? What about the water? Is it attacking me? No, cause I control it! Look at me, I wanna be the best swordsman, all I need to do is kill everything! Oooo! Ha, ha!"
"SHUT UP! Besides, that bug shouldn't have snuck up on me!" Zoro said.
"She has a point." Robin said, they continued.
(Later)
"What do you know, you got yourself a South Bird." Cricket said. Sanji carried the bird by the talons while Luna barked at it.
"Hey, where's Raven and Loki?" Chopper asked.
"They've been stolen, along with my gold."
"By who?"
"Bellamy and this you girl that looks like Dusk."
Luna paused, then punched a tree in anger. "Damn! I shouldn't have left them!"
"Luna." Usopp said. "We didn't even know that this would happen."
"Yeah, didn't you beat up Shiranui?" Luffy said.
"They must've noticed Shiranui being missing, they might've got information from her when they found her." Robin said. "No dout about that."
"We have no lead." Dusk said, looking around. "Means she's gone..." She fell to her knees and dug into the dirt with her nails.
"Found something!" Dawn handed Nami a chart.
"It shows where a ship is." Nami said. "It's called the Eternal Sonata."
"Luffy." Dawn said. "Make a choise."
The place was silent.
"Either..." Luna started after ten minutes. "We go to Skypiea, or save our...nakama..."
Luffy put his hand on her shoulder, he had a dark look to his face.