Another Chapter!
P.s: I have read that Doflamingo actually turned out to use the Ito Ito fruit, which is basically the same as the string fruit Semayo uses in my story. I must be… A seer! Naw, kidding. But let's just say that Semayo uses something more like a rope fruit and Doflamingo a string fruit. Honestly, I thought it was gonna be the puppet fruit for Doflamingo! Sorry about that.
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They were sailing at a safe distance from Carefree Island, when Shizu couldn't hold it anymore.
"So how did you do that stuff when we were running?"
"Should we tell her, Blue?"
"Yeah! But wait for the cookies!" Blue scurried off belowdeck, and came back with a few packages filled to the brim with cookies.
"If you eat all that in one go, there won't be any more for the rest of the journey, you know."
Blue was visibly troubled when he decided in the end to keep half of the packages for later.
"Okay. I'm Percy Jackson, God of Time, Tranquility and Adventure, minor Sound and Water, and this is Blue, a Demon King."
"You must be joking. I've never seen any demons or gods before."
"You haven't?!" Blue was struck with horror. "But they swim around all the time!" Blue whistled and an enormeous bunny sea king came to the surface.
"Wow, wait, so you say a sea-king is actually a demon?"
"Yes."
"I don't believe you."
Well, that sure makes things easier, Percy thought sarcastically. "It's the truth."
"Prove it."
"Okay." Percy stopped time, except for Shizu. "You see. I can control time."
Shizu tried some things, like walking on water and punching Blue. Nothing moved. Shizu was intrigued by being able to walk on water. "Okay, I'll give you that. But how do I know this is not a Devil Fruit ability?"
"I control water too, and I can swim." He started time again, and jumped of the ship. Shizu looked at the water stubbornly, like she expected Percy to drown anyway. But Percy came up through a water tentacle. Shizu was surprised, honestly. "But that's not proof you're a god. Maybe you're one of that Vegapunk's experiments."
"Percy cut himself a little. The blood flowing out wasn't blood, Shizu noticed. It was gold and sparkly. Her eyes went big. "Sparkly…"
Percy and Blue watched her being weird about Percy's ichor. "This is ichor, blood of the gods."
"Okay, okay, I get it. But how does that make you" she pointed to Blue "a demon?"
"Have you even looked at him? He has a tail and horns."
"Yes, yes, but that could also be a devil fruit."
Percy picked up Blue and threw him in the sea. Shizu looked at him in shock, but Percy just looked at his arms like he was looking at a watch. After roughly three seconds, Blue surfaced, gasped, and manipulated the water to come back aboard.
"See!" Blue smiled. "No Devil Fruit does that…" Blue paused a bit. "…Yet! It must be fun to make one!"
"Wouldn't that give the person who ate it an advantage?"
"Yeeees, but maybe I'll just take away his ability to be on land or something…"
Shizu, now convinced of the two's identities, gulped, and made a mental note to not be so hasty to eat a fruit again.
Shizu was having a heated argument with Blue. After he had finished eating his own cookies, he had started to eat all the bread he could find. Shizu took it upon herself to be in charge of food, so she became pretty mad when she found out. She tried to remind Blue that foods that would spoil faster had to be eaten first the hard way. Unfortunately for Blue 'the hard way' meant shoving a spoilt vegetable in his mouth. They began bickering afterwards. But a while later, she suddenly began to feel drowsy and very, very calm. Blue felt it too, and went to look for Percy. Shizu followed, not exactly sure what happened yet.
When Percy saw them, he stopped using Tranquility and beckoned them.
"We have trouble. He pointed to the distance. Another ship was coming their way.
They stared intendly at the ship for some time, until Blue took a cookie and ate it.
"How in the name of the devil did you get that cookie?!" Shizu almost screamed. "You ate all the bread while you still had cookies?!"
"No, I just created another cookie. I can duplicate and summon everything in my domain, you know."
Blue wanted to take another bite, when Percy snatched the cookie away. An intense pressure fell upon Blue and Shizu. "So you say that we bought loads of cookies for tons of money, while you could just as well create some…?" Blue fidgeted, and looked at the ship.
"Oh! It's the Buggy Pirates!" Percy looked up, and so did Shizu.
"You mean like that thing they carry babies in? Are they babysitters or something?" Percy asked, forgetting all about the cookie incident, thanks to his ADHD. He couldn't really believe anyone would have such a stupid taste of names. The flag looked like a skull with a big, red nose, and weird slash marks across the eyes. Percy decided to avoid them. Shizu and Blue however, did not.
"Cool!" Their eyes were all sparkly. Styx, Percy thought.
And he was right. Five minutes later (handy time telling powers Percy had there), the ship was docked against their ship. Percy sighed, and fastened the last rope, and Shizu and Blue jumped aboard.
The ridiculous looking clowny captain's eyes bulged out when he screamed: "Go on, my crew! Capture them and loot the ship!"
The crew looked overly happy for some reason, and captured the still sparkly-eyed Blue and Shizu. Then they tried to loot the ship. Tried. They didn't know Percy was there either, so every time they boarded the ship, Percy turned back time for them. The captain noticed this and went to look.
When Buggy saw the strange new pirate manipulating time, he initially screamed out in fear in his mind. This guy was powerful, that's for sure. It looked like a Devil Fruit at least. But, he thought, maybe…
"Wait! Maybe they didn't mean to attack! Unbind them, and welcome them to the ship!" Sure, Percy thought. They let us dock at their ship (which was bigger than the trio's, by the way), let us enter, try to capture us, and then say we attacked… But he had to admit: The Clown had charisma.
One of the men went to him, crying tears of happiness, muttering: "Our boss is such a good guy! So great to have him back!"
Percy shrugged, having no idea on how to react on such a random statement. He followed the guy to the other ship, which, of course, had nothing to do with the sword poking in his back. There he slapped Blue and Shizu out of their sparkly-eyes state.
"Welcome to the Big Top! I, the great Buggy, let you join the legendary Buggy Pirates!"
Blue shook his head. "No! We're the Blue Pirates already!"
Buggy laughed. The kid was the captain and he didn't want to join.
"Wait WHAT?!" Buggy yelled when he realized what he just thought. "He's the captain?" He asked Percy.
"No, we're Co-Captains. This is our First Mate Shizu, that's Blue, and I'm Percy." He answered
Buggy's eyes bulged out and his mouth fell to the floor in shock. "You don't want to join?!"
Percy laughed uncomfortably at the in his opinion strange man.
"No."
A good ten minutes later, Percy was sitting at a table, with a bottle of sake, between partying people. How it had come to this, he had no idea. Blue must have been drunk when he shaped this world, because everyone, absolutely everyone, loved sake. It was nice sake, yes, but still it was strange. Blue was eating a plate of cookies that he found in Buggy's cupboard, and Shizu was looking at the acrobats' show. They were now making a human tower while standing on a cord. These pirates were obviously circus-themed.
Buggy himself had twelve drinks already, and he was only a little intoxicated! It was madness.
Percy came across a table where the magicians played poker with Blue. His 'chips' were choco-chip cookies, whereas the rest played with real money. Percy remembered the lotus-hotel incident. But for the time being, until when the party was over at the least, they were stuck on this ship. So why not.
Percy sat down, and took five Beli out of his pocket. He sat down. The magicians were obviously not playing straight with their card tricks, but that wasn't really the point here anyway.
Meanwhile, Shizu was having her third bottle of sake, but she still hadn't given in to the advances of the Buggy Pirates. They all used the excuse of manipulating her in the crew to get close to her. But Shizu, while drunk, wasn't stupid, and kept saying no to the offers of joining the crew.
Percy was having a small talk with one of the magicians. "Why was that one crying and saying 'It's so great to have him back?"
"Did nobody tell you? We lost our captain for a while thanks to that blasted Straw Hat, but he has finally returned, after a long and perilous journey! He was back right in time to save us from certain doom by being eaten!" Percy nodded, and continued the game.
The party was at its highest when Buggy performed cabaret (why, nobody knew…) with a slightly pirate-y touch. Blue and he had become good friends over the course of the evening, but even after the nefarious cookie-bribery Buggy put him under, Blue still didn't give in. Percy was winning a lot in poker, even though he hadn't had a lot of good hands.
"You're unreadable! Where did you learn to be so good at poker!" one of the magicians cried out in admiration. Percy, however, grinned. It must have had something to do with his traits gotten from his father, Percy knew it for sure.
Blue was having a laugh at Buggy's cabaret. Shizu couldn't believe her eyes. It was horrible. The only thing Buggy did up there was boasting about himself, but failing miserably. Even the crew didn't laugh as hard as Blue. Shizu had to know why. She went to him.
"What's so funny about this?" She asked
"H-He's so silly!" Blue gasped between laughs.
Buggy saw the little pirate laugh too. 'Good' he thought. Maybe he could get them to become his allies, even if they didn't want to join. He knew for sure that those three would gather fame pretty fast, because of the appearance of the small one, Blue, and the powers of the other one, Percy, and he wanted to make use of that. Besides, he liked the small one, Blue, a lot too, so it wasn't completely for bragging rights. Finally someone that laughed about his jokes… Tears of joy streamed down his cheeks while he told his next joke, making him look ridiculous once more.
After his cabaret-show, Buggy went to talk with the three, quickly snatching Percy from his game, before his crew lost all their money.
"So, what do you think!" Buggy laughed his trademark laugh, mouth wide-open as usual.
"It's fun!" Blue beamed back, mouth also wide open.
"It's certainly fun, but we don't want to join." Shizu said.
"No, no, consider us friends." Buggy jovially smacked Shizu on the back.
"We've only recently come in these parts," Percy said. Buggy would probably have an ulterior motive behind declaring them friends, but Percy didn't mind. "Can you tell us something about who to look out for?"
"Well, you obviously have the marines, but the average marine won't be a match for you, I'm sure. The marines, however, have ranks, and the higher the rank gets, the more dangerous they are. But you'll know when you meet one. You'll also find a lot of pirates, but how strong they are depends on the pirate. Look out for Devil Fruits, but you probably already know that, as you can't possible have that time power without eating one. You've also got the Shichibukai, they are really strong pirates that work for the Marine. But be especially on guard for Straw Hat Luffy. That guy acts like he's stupid, but he was the cause of my separation of the crew. He is devious. Don't let him fool you." Buggy told them.
"Thank you, we'll be on guard." Shizu said.
"Thanks again for the party, but I think it's time for us to go back to our ship."
Buggy looked a bit crestfallen, maybe his plan hadn't worked.
"Yeah, and tomorrow, we can take you to the next island! You see, Percy has the power to navigate here without a log pose! So we'll help you on your way!" Blue said happily.
Buggy looked surprised. That would be handy. "Would you really do that?"
Percy seemed in thought, but then nodded. "Yeah, sure, we can do that. I'll come back tomorrow, to talk about the different islands, then. But for now, we'll go back to the ship. Consider it a gift of friendship."
Buggy cried tears of joy again. "Thank you!" He hugged them, much to the protest of two of the three.
Rally was spying the ship on his boat from afar. The ship was floating next to another ship. He recognized the ship from the East Blue Marine Files. It was the ship of Buggy the Clown. They were certainly pirates, and Rally was steaming. Those two… pirates... had lied to him! Captain Rally! They would pay! He would get the witch back and pay! He went to the next island by log pose. He would contact the Marine there to be on guard for the pirates. He set sail to the island of Kloof.
Everything was quiet in Shakky's Rip-Off Bar. There were no customers, but that wasn't too strange for the time of the day. Shakky herself was cleaning some dishes and a few lost glasses, when two young men came in. One was darkly dressed, and had an aura to match, the second had blonde hair and the third had a tail.
"My, my, customers, so late in the evening. What are you looking for, if I may ask?"
"Food, something to drink, and two guys, named Percy and Blue." The blonde one answered.
Shakky chuckled. That was a nice attitude. This could get fun.
Aaand that's it. My mind is still buzzing with ideas, but as I got back to the OP world, I will be continuing this again. There will be some one-shots! But not soon! That's all. And, if you like it, push the follow/favourite or the Review button! If you're not satisfied with a part of this chapter, tell me why through PM or Review. Otherwise I can't do anything about it.
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