Chapter 7: Where'd they get the apples?
Summery: I may never know how it truly began, but I do know that I never truly had a choice in the events that led me here. I am in one piece now, and have unwillingly left my own world behind. That is all that matters, and all I need to know.
Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with any legal rights to one piece in any form, I do not own one piece or any part of the merchandising, gaming, manga, anime, characters, or anything of the sort. Please do not sue me as I do not have any money. The only things that I own from this fic are my own original characters.
A/N1: I KNOW ZORO IS ALSO CALLED ZOLO,
A/N2: I HAVE DECIDE TO LEAVE THE PAIRING UP TO THE READERS.
Please note that this chapter was edited on a massive scale one 11/2/09.
Note: Mayat was created and submitted by Dthehalfdragon
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
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To say that my dried fruits and nuts didn't last long would have been an understatement. Almost as soon as I pulled them out of my froggy bag, they were gone.
I had been ignoring Luffy's complaints of being hungry since he had started up, which was pretty much as soon as the island was out of site. When Nami started saying that she was hunger, however, I instantly pulled the two Jars out of my foggy bag, which caused everyone's eyes, not including Zoro's, to light up. Unfortunately, the happiness was short lived however because Luffy managed to eat an entire jar in just one bite.
Considering the jars are both two feet tall and two feet in diameter, that was one big mouthful.
After everyone had beaten Luffy half to death, we all ate a little more then a handful of the food, leaving the rest for later. Sadly, the food didn't last much longer then that because everyone was really hungry. If it hadn't been for the fishing rod and thirty pounds of fishing bait I found in the froggy bag, we would have starved.
That had been two days ago and my fishing bait was all gone now, meaning there was no way for any of us to get any food. Luckily, Nami came to the rescue.
The moment all of the food ran out, Nami had started steering our two dinghies in the direction of a sea-bar she knew of.
The fact that she had decided to take us to a sea bar when we were about to starve answered two questions that had been plaguing me ever since we left the town that had been half destroyed by Buggy.
The first question that it answered was the apple crates question. In the anime, there had been two crates of apples on the dinghies as the group sailed toward Syrup Village to get Usopp, but they hadn't been in the dinghy's at the end of the episode right before that one, meaning that the crates of apples had appeared out of nowhere for them.
Now, as that had just been an anime, it wasn't really that big of a issue, anime tended to do stuff like that, but this was real life and we weren't going to get free food that just appeared out of nowhere, so where had they come from?
The second question the sea bar answered was one that had been bothering me ever since I first got to this world. How did Nami always know where to go to get treasure? Even though word doesn't exactly travel fast in this world, she always seems to know where a pirate she wanted to steal from was. So how exactly did she know where they were?
The answer to both questions was simple, Esca's Sea-Bar.
Nami got all her information at the sea going, pirate serving, bar. It had also been where they had gotten the crates of apples in the anime, though I wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not. Bars don't usually give out crates of apples, which meant that we were probably going to be pissing someone off in the bar, either that or pirate bars weren't what people made them out to be.
While starvation was a real problem for us at the moment, there was another problem that was even worse, at least in my opinion.
Choco was still a baby and was still grow, and apparently Chocobos tended to grow pretty fast, which meant that he needed a lot of food. In the three days that we had been on the dinghies he had somehow managed to grow more then five inches, putting him at just above knee level, though he was incredibly thin. He definitely needed food.
At the rate he was growing, it was starting to look like I was going to have to spend all the money I had stolen from the marine base just to feed him, and that was going to suck. If I had to do it, I would, but I was hoping that he wouldn't keep growing as fast as he was. If he did, then he was going to be too big for the dinghies way before we managed to get the Going Merry, which would be bad because he would probably cause us to sink.
'Great, maybe I should start charging for visions.' I thought sadly, knowing that I would soon be kissing all the beli I had goodbye.
"Kweh?" Choco asked, giving me that sad look that meant he was hungry.
"I know buddy." I said, rubbing the back of his head sadly, wishing I had something I could give him. "Don't worry, Nami said we should be to the bar sometime today, I'll get you some food then, I promise." I said, wishing I could kill Luffy for causing my baby bird to starve.
If I could, I would have drawn him myself, but I had a feeling that Zoro would kill me if I did.
"Guys! I see it!" Nami suddenly shouted, catching my attention instantly and causing everyone to jump up excitedly, praying that she meant the bar. "It's only an hour or so away, as long as we keep this speed I mean."
Hearing this, everyone cheered. We were all filled with a sense of anticipation. The thought of food was the only thing on everyone's mind, though that wasn't anything new for some of us...
"Yeah! Food!" Luffy shouted, only to have me, Zoro, Nami, and even Choco and Lil hit him over the head as hard as we could, causing several large lumps to form on his now abused head.
"Idiot! We wouldn't be in this situation if it wasn't for you to begin with, moron!" Nami growled angrily, and there was no way any of us were going to disagree with that.
Just because he was my captain, that didn't mean that I was going to let him get away with his stupidity. He had caused Choco, Lil, and me to starve, so any time someone hit him over the head for shouting about food was fine with me.
"Yeah, not only do I have to be stuck on a giant puddle, but I also had to starve because of you!" Lil said angrily, slashing him across his face once with one of her claws.
That was one pissed off kitty.
"Calm down, fuzz bucket." I said, picking her up off the floor in an attempt to keep her from clawing Luffy to death while he rolled around on the floor of the boat in pain.
Part of me wanted to let her do it again. It would be a great way to teach him not to eat so much all the time when there wasn't that much food for us to begin with.
"Whatever, I think I'm gonna go back to sleep." Zoro said, laying back down to take another nap as Luffy sat up and stopped his whining. "Wake me when we get there." he added, closing his eyes and dozing off.
Unsurprisingly, Nami's estimation on the time it would take us to get to the ship was right. Just a little under an hour after Zoro had closed his eyes, we were waking him up again to let him know that we were there. I was a little surprised to find that he could actually sleep through Luffy's whining, but that was Zoro for you.
Almost as soon as Zoro had closed his eyes, Luffy had started up on his 'I'm hungry' complaints again and hadn't stop until Nami and I had both hit him upside his head a few times, her with her staff, and me with my normal mallet as I still couldn't lift the impact one. That, and I didn't want to use the impact mallet while we were on a boat in the middle of the ocean, I didn't want to sink us.
All of us were happy when we finally reached the sea-bar's dock. It meant that we would all be able to eat as soon as we climbed up the ladder and got inside. I wouldn't have actually called the outside part of it a dock, it was actually just a bunch of logs that were tied to the outside of the bar. The logs were all flat on top and rounder then I was tall, making them incredibly huge. They all had ropes attached to them every ten feet or so, so that you could tie your boat or dinghy to it so that it didn't float away while you were inside the bar.
Once we had secured both of the dinghies to one of the sea-bar's logs, Nami made me put her treasure bag into my froggy bag so that none of the other customers at the bar would steal it while we were inside. I also had Choco get inside the froggy bag as well because I really didn't want to leave him on the dinghy alone, and I had a feeling that he might attract to much attention. He wasn't exactly a normal bird, and it would really suck if someone tried to steal him.
Once all of that was settled, we all climbed onto the flat part of the giant log and headed down the short distance to the ship, climbing up the rope ladder once we reached it.
OK, so they climbed it and I jumped up it. I only actually touched the ladder once when I was about half way up to the top of the ship, but it's still the same thing.
Once I was on the deck of the sea-bar, I took a quick look around to see what the outside of the bar looked like before heading in. I didn't want to walk into a place without knowing anything about the people that ran it, and the outside of any restaurant or bar, even a seafaring one, could tell you a lot about the owners, though I had no idea how to tell if I would get attacked in a pirate-bar, pirates were way to unpredictable for that.
It was while I was looking around the ship that a large cart rolled past me, one that was carrying a huge bear keg on it as well as something that I had to take a double take of to make sure that I wasn't seeing things.
"Someone stop that keg! My ear's on it!" a guy yelled as he ran right past me, clearly chasing after the cart with the large keg on it.
'Yep, I definitely don't want to go into this bar anymore, not when there are ears on the bear kegs.' I thought, turning around and planing on jumping back down the ladder, only to pause when I saw that they guy was still chasing after the cart, trying to get the ear back from it.
Scary didn't even come close to covering in. The guy was covered in scares and had more stitches on him then anyone in my family had ever gotten in our whole life, and we are an accident prone group of people. The fact that he was covered in scars was made even more obvious thanks to his clothes, which were tattered an torn. It was as if he had been put through a blender, and then was sown back together again.
The only thing on him that didn't look as though it had been through a blender was his Kingdom hearts 2 – Axel styled red hair. It was spiked in every direction and kind of gave off the feel of a porcupine.
He was the ultimate Humpty-dumpty.
"What 'cha looking at?" Luffy asked as he and the others finished climbing up the ladder and onto the deck of the sea-bar.
In answer to his question, I simply pointed at the stitched guy, who was still running around after the barrel, though he seemed to be getting more and more frantic by the second.
"Huh? What's that he's chasing?" Nami asked, her voice making it clear that she had never seen him before.
"Is that an ear?" Zoro asked, seeing the thing that was on the bear keg.
"Yep, and it's his." I said as the cart came back toward us, somehow managing to get past the guy as it made a u-turn.
Luffy stuck his hand out and stopped the cart, which caused the ear to go flying off the keg and smack me in the face.
The.
Ick.
Factor.
Was.
Huge.
Acting as though there was nothing odd about the situation, Luffy calmly took the ear off of my face as I fell to the ground, staring off into space and permanently scared for life. Nami seemed to understand how I felt and was trying to get me to respond to here, telling me that it was OK and that she was glad that it hadn't hit her, which didn't exactly make me feel any better. A freakin body part had just struck me in the forehead, she was just telling me that she was glad she wasn't me.
Gee, how thoughtful.
While I was laying on the ground, Nami seemed to be the only one that even noticed me. Everyone else was acting as though everything was completely normal.
"Thank you!" the stitch guy said, trying to catch his breath as he came over to us.
"Is this your ear?" Luffy asked, not realizing that he was causing me to whimper by mentioning the appendage that had hit me in the face.
"Yeah, thanks. If I don't sew it back on soon, it might turn to dust." stitch-boy said, taking that-which-should-not-be-mentioned and reattaching it to his head by the use of a needle and some thread.
"Ew, you know that isn't going to fix it, right?" Nami asked in a very groused out tone, pointing out that the that-which-should-not-be-mentioned was never going to work again, and that he was just wasting his time trying to reattach it.
"Huh? Oh, it will be, I ate the Nuu Nuu devil fruit. " He said simply, smiling when he finished his sewing. (A/n: Nuu means stitch, so it's the 'Stitch Stitch devil fruit')
"Huh? Another devil fruit?" Nami asked, wandering how many devil fruit there were in the world.
"Another one? Wha-?" He asked, flicking his that-which-should-not-be-mentioned to make sure that the sewing would hold.
His body parts never seemed to stay attached for long thanks mainly to the fact that his sewing skills kind of sucked.
"Yeah, I'm a rubber man." Luffy said, grabbing his cheeks and pulling on them, much the same way as I had when I showed Nami his abilities.
"Way cool!" He said, smiling at us like an idiot, similar to the way the Luffy always did.
"Yeah, and we just got done dealing with a guy that ate the Bara Bara fruit." Zoro said, finally stepping into the conversation, though he seemed to be silently laughing at my reaction to getting hit with a cut off that-which-should-not-be-mentioned. "Oh, come on, it was just an ear." He added, causing me to whimper even more.
Nami glared at him for the comment, clearly annoyed with the fact that he had said that. It wasn't helping the situation, and he almost seemed to enjoy that fact.
"Great, so what does this one let you do?" Nami finally asked, turning back to the stitch-guy while trying to ignore the sudden urge to kill Zoro as she started trying to get me to stand up again.
Stitch-boy simply stood there, thinking about the question for a minute, clearly trying to figure out the best way to explain it. When he finally seemed to settle on an explanation, he opened his half stitched up mouth and spoke.
"Well, I guess you can say it's kind of like the Bara Bara fruit. If you cut me up, I can just sew myself back together again, as long as I do it within fifteen minutes. I can also control my parts like a Bara Bara user, though my parts can't fly or float, and I can only control parts that have enough pieces on them. For instance, I can still control my hand if it gets cut off, but I can't control my ear if it gets cut off." he explained, though this time, amazingly, I didn't whimper at the 'ear comment', which probably meant that I was slowly starting to move past the 'getting hit with a severed ear' thing.
"That's awesome!" Luffy shouted, only for me to smack him on the head with my mallet.
Somehow I had managed to get to my feet in the blink of an eye and managed to pull my mallet out almost just as fast.
"That is not awesome! I just got hit in the face with one of his parts!" I growled angrily, causing everyone to jump back at my sudden recovery. "I shell wash, but I fear that I shell never be clean again." I added with tears in my eyes, turning my head and burying it into Lil's fur.
I don't know when she clawed her way onto my shoulder, but I was grateful to have someone to cry into.
"Hahaha, sorry about that." The guy said, trying to pacify me, clearly afraid that I would start hitting him with the mallet. "My name's Mayat Ado by the way, nice to meet you." he added, introducing himself.
"Hi, I'm Luffy, this is Nami, and Zoro, and this is Kaede, Lil, and Choco." Luffy said, introducing himself and the rest of his crew while smiling at Mayat like an idiot.
The looks on their faces were almost the exact same. It was almost creepy.
"Anyway, I should probably get back to work. My uncle's training me to take over this place." Mayat said, waving at us and walking off into the bar, making me want to go back out to sea as soon as possible, without food if I had to.
Nami didn't seem to be willing to let that happen though because the moment he was out of site she grabbed onto my shoulder and started forcing me toward the door to the sea-bar. She clearly knew I had been about to run back to the dinghies and wasn't about to let me go until it was to late.
Evil woman, that's all I can say. Evil woman.
"No! Let me go! I don't want to go into a bar with bloody body parts!" I wailed, trying as hard as I could to get away from her, though it didn't work at all.
"Oh, common. I'm telling you that that was the first time something like that has ever happened here." she said, pushing me through the large wood doors that lead into the bar.
"Besides, you didn't act like this when we were fighting Buggy." Zoro said, causing me to reach for my mallet.
"That's because there wasn't blood involved then!" I cried out as I was rudely shoved into the bar.
Once I finally finished my bitching and whining and had taken a quick look around the room, I found that the place didn't have a speck of blood anywhere in sight. It was as if Mayat had never set foot in the place, then again, it looked like no pirate had ever set foot in the place, but there were several pirates siting at various tables, so that couldn't be..
The place was cleaner then anything I had ever seen before, making every hospital I had ever been in look as though it had been dipped in mud, then dragged through blood and corpses.
It had a long bar along the walls to the left and to the right of the entrance with several stools in front of them. There were also several tables sitting in the middle of the room, surrounded by chairs and stools. It was definitely a bar, but yet it was way to clean.
Whoever ran the place must have known my mother, because the only way to get a place this clean was to use her cleaning secrets, which I was convinced involved dancing in a field of corn naked, bathed in the blood of a new born lamb under the full moon. It was just that fuckin clean, and it was starting to scare me way more then the hacked off ear ever did.
It was as I was looking around the place that I found out how the crew had gotten the crates of apples in the anime. Off in the far corner of the room was a man that was selling fruits and vegetables. It took me several minutes to think of anything that could explain why a pirate bar would be selling fruits in it, let alone any bar for that matter. When I finally realized the answer, I was a little embarrassed. I was such a big fan of the one piece series that I should have remembered what the number one sailor and pirate killer of all time was..
Scurvy.
The only reason why any bar, pirate or regular, would be selling fruits and vegetables was so that the pirates that came by would be able to recover from scurvy, or prevent it all together so that they could come by again in the future. If scurvy killed all the pirates and sailors, then no one would be left to buy a drink at the bar. Selling fruits and vegetables fixed that little problem.
Besides the fruit and vegetable vender, there was also several other shops in the back of the bar, though none of them really caught my eye. I was to hungry to notice anything else, so the food shop was all I was interested in.
"OK, no bloody body parts, I can handle this." I said, straightening up and dusting my self off, fully intent on acting as though my hissy-fit had never happened.
Lucky for me, everyone else seemed to think it was a good idea to act like it had never happened as well, though I had a feeling that Nami had something to do with that.
Once everyone spotted the apples, it didn't take long for any of us to find our way over to them. It was as if we had all somehow learned how to teleport. We saw the apples and simply appeared in front of them.
"How much for the apples?" Nami asked while Zoro and I held Luffy back from eating them.
"That depends, how much do you got?" the salesman said, a rather greedy look making its way across his face.
"I'll give you a thousand beli for both crates." Nami said, sounding as though she had done this before, which she probably had.
"Three thousand, and I'll throw in some apples to." the salesmen said, laughing at Nami's offer.
"I meant the crate of apples. If you're gonna be like this, then nine hundred beli."
Nami and the salesman continued to haggle for several minutes before they finally came to an agreement, with Nami being the victor.
Nami pulled some beli out of her top and handed several hundred beli to the salesman as Zoro and Luffy both picked up a crate and started heading back toward the front of the bar.
"Um, how much for all the plants?" I asked, causing the salesman to smirk and catching Nami's attention.
I wasn't sure what the green plants were, but if they were being sold in a food shop, then they had to be edible.
"What do you need all of that for? We already have apples." Nami said, which reminded me that she didn't know that Choco only ate greens, like lattice and cabbage.
"Choco can only eat leafy plants, like lattice and cabbage. he wont be bale to eat the apples." I explained as the salesman started counting up all the green and leafy foods he had.
"Four thousand beli." He said, moving all the crates with the requested foods in front of him so that we could see them.
"Four thousand?! You got to be kidding me! I wouldn't even pay half that much for these!" Nami said, coming to my rescue and trying to haggle the price down.
The salesman didn't seem to go for it this time.
"I ain't lowering the price this time. I have to make my money somehow, and there is quite a bit of beli worth of veggies here. Four thousand or no deal." he said sternly, no longer smiling at either of us.
He clearly wasn't going to change his mind. I either had to pay the four thousand beli or Choco was going to starve.
"Well then, we'll just have to take our business someplace else." Nami growled angrily, grabbing me by my arm and dragging me off towards the exit.
The salesman didn't look like he cared all that much, and I had a sinking feeling he wasn't going to change the price no mater what we did. That meant that Nami's ploy, and I was sure that was what it was, wasn't working. If I didn't go by the greens at the price he was asking for them, then Choco would starve, and I wasn't about to let that happen.
Taking a deep breath, I pulled my hand out of Nami's grip and headed back towards the salesman. Choco needed food and that was all I needed to know..
"Kaede? What are you doing? We can find some veggies someplace else." Nami asked in a confused voice, wandering why I was heading back towards the over priced vegies.
"Sorry Nami, but I have to get Choco some food now. He's still a baby and he hasn't had any food for over almost two days. I'm not putting him through that again." I said, looking over my shoulder at her so that she could see that I was serious.
"But... Oh, fine!" She huffed, walking back over to the salesman while digging some more money out of her top.
"No thanks Nami, I'll pay for it." I said, surprising her slightly.
I had a feeling that that she thought I was broke or something because the look she gave me was one of complete surprise.
"Lil, dig out four thousand beli for me from my froggy bag." I said, opening the froggy bag up and letting her dive inside, and I do mean dive.
It took her about three minutes to find the metal box I had stolen from the marine base back when we got Zoro, and it took her another two minutes to get the requested amount out of it.
"Here." I said once Lil handed me the money, which she used her mouth to do instead of her paws as she wanted to appear as much like a normal cat as she could.
Once the man was done counting the money, he let me and Nami take the crates, smiling in a triumphant way the whole time. He was clearly very please with himself for gouging the money out of our pockets.
The entire time we were in the bar, everything had been relatively quite. There hadn't been a single problem the whole time, not until we were almost to the exit, that is.
Two of the costumers at the bar had started arguing with one of the bouncers. Apparently it was closing time, which meant that everyone had to leave. They hadn't been ready to leave yet and had started an all out fight with him in an attempt to force him to let them stay and have another few rounds of sake. They were using chairs and tables to beat him over the head in an attempt to knock him out. Lucky for the bouncer, someone came to his rescue.
"Hey! What's going on here?" a voice called from behind a doors behind one of the bars as a man walked through it.
It was Mayat.
The scared man had heard the commotion in the bar and had come to see what what going on. The moment he saw what was going on, he quickly headed over to the two men and the bouncer and simply touched each of the two men on the shoulder, causing both of them to fall to the ground, screaming in agony.
"Huh?" Nami, me, and Zoro all said in unison, wandering what the heck was going on.
Lil had almost said it as well, but Nami had managed to get her hands over the cat's mouth before she gotten the first syllable out. She didn't want the cat to get us killed either, so keeping her quite was probably the safest thing to do.
"Awesome!" Luffy shouted, throwing his hands up in the air and acting like a kid.
"What just happened?" I asked, wandering what other weird things stitch-boy could do.
Luffy wasn't exactly normal, and Buggy was really odd, but this guy was just plain weird.
"Huh?" He asked, looking up at us from his position next to the fallen men. "Oh! You mean what I just did?"
"Yeah, it didn't look like you did anything, but those guys look like they're in real pain." Nami said, just as freaked out as I was about what had just happened.
"OH, that's another bonus of the Nuu Nuu fruit. It lets me simulate any pain I've felt before. I simply touch someone and concentrate on that pain, and they feel it." He said, grinning at us proudly.
The fact that part of his mouth was poorly stitched together meant that when he smiled, it pulled apart slightly, causing both Nami and me to shiver involuntarily.
"It only last for a few minutes, but in most cases, it's usually enough." He said, moving aside to let the bouncer pick both of the men up and carry them out the door, most likely to throw them over board.
If it hadn't been for the fact that they had started the fight, I would have felt sorry for them.
Just as Luffy was about to open his mouth, most likely to ask Mayat to join the crew, Mayat told us that it was time for use to leave too. Closing time mean that everyone had to leave, no exceptions.
"OK, OK, we're leaving already!" Nami said in an annoyed tone as Mayat ushered us toward the door.
"Stop your shoving, we already said we were leaving!" I growled, starting to realize that Nami and I were the only ones he was shoving, and it wasn't our backs he was pushing on either.
On the one hand, it was nice to know that SOMEONE realized that I was a girl, but on the other hand...
"Hey! Get your hand off of my ass!" Nami and I shouted in unison, spinning around and whacking him on either side of his head with our respective weapons, her with her staff and me with my normal mallet.
After a minute of us glaring down at him, Mayat picked himself off the ground and sent each of us a wink, clearly not repentant at all.
"Well, you can't blame a guy for trying." he said with a grin, only to get hit by us again.
Just as we were about to start beating the crap out of him, laughter from behind the bar to the right alerted us to the fact that someone was finding the situation incredibly amusing.
"MIHEHEHE! Still can't stop feeling up the ladies, can you Mayat?" a large man asked from behind the counter, still laughing his ass off at the scene before him. "Why don't you two ladies come back some time for a drink, on the house?"
That was when Nami realized that Mayat was getting a rather nice view of her from his position, and considering the fact that she was wearing her favorite orange mini skirt, it was definitely a very good view.
"Pervert!" she shouted, whacking him several times with her staff again before storming out of the bar, leaving the severely bruised man laying on the floor.
Not wanting to be left out of the beating, I quickly clubbed him on the face with my mallet and followed her, listening to the large man's laughing as I left.
"You know, one of these days you're going to look up the wrong skirt." I heard the man say, causing me to wander if Mayat got the crap beaten out of him on a regular basis.
"Yeah, but what a way to go." I heard Mayat replay, causing me to growl angrily.
That guy was really asking for it.
Once I was was out on the deck and had figured out which ladder our boat was at the end of, I forced Zoro to come back up and help me bring the two crates I was carrying down the ladder. I had somehow managed to not drop them during the Mayat incident, which was a miracle, and was afraid that I might drop them if I tried to carry them down myself.
I was also afraid of what might happen if I tried to jump down onto one of the dinghies because I was pretty sure that I would probably cause it to sink on impact, and that would really suck.
Once Zoro had carried both of the crates down the ladder, which he did at the same time, I headed down the ladder as well, happy when I finally reached the large log at the bottom. The moment I was about half way down, Nami forced me to toss her treasure bag down to her, which I had had to dig out of the froggy bag first.
When I had finally reached the dinghy and had sat down to get the food ready for Choco, I found that he had already jumped out of the froggy bag and had just finished eating one of the crates of veggies, leaving only one of the ones that Nami had carried and the two I had carried.
Yep, he was definitely a hungry little birdy.
If it wasn't for Nami and Zoro beating the crap out of him, Luffy would have eaten one of the crates of apples already, but luckily, they made sure he stayed away from them until he had permission to eat some, and they only let him have as much as they were willing to give him.
If he wanted to eat an apple, then he had to ask for one. We only had so much food, so letting him eat whatever he wanted would have been really dangerous, not to mention stupid.
Once Nami and Zoro had finished beating the crap out of him for eating one of the crates of apples already, we untied the dinghies and set sail, and almost as soon as we did, Luffy decided on our next destination.
"Hey, do you know how to get to Syrup Village from here?" Luffy asked, turning to Nami and causing me to smile. "There's something I got to do before we head off to the Grandline."
"Huh? Syrup Village? Sure, according to this map it's not to far from here." Nami said, pulling out a map and looking at it for a second before looking back up at the rubber man. "Why do you want to go there?"
"No reason." Luffy said, laying down and closing his eyes to take a nap, leaving her to deal with the navigational stuff like always.
Once Nami finished glaring at him for not answering her question, she turned her attention to me, wandering if I could tell her why Luffy wanted to go to Syrup Village so badly.
"Hey, you're a witch, what do you see in the future? Why does he want to go to that village so much?" she asked, wandering if I could tell her what she wanted to know.
"Sorry, but I don't do visions for free. At least not when they're for curiosity." I said, shooting her a grin while mimicking Luffy's action, though I was using Choco as a pillow instead of using a hat.
Nami simply glared at me, refusing point blank to pay me anything. It wasn't until Lil spoke up that she changed her mind.
"Come on, it's only a single gold coin, kind of a cheep price for knowing the future, don't you think?" she asked, smiling at her in an overly innocent way.
Normally Nami would never even think of spending her hard earned treasure, but then again, she had never had a real psychic to answer her questions before.
"Fine!" She said angrily, curiosity finally getting the better of her.
Reaching into the large bag of gold, she pulled out one of the gold coins and tossed it to Lil, who promptly bit into it to make sure it was real.
"Yo, boss, she payed." Lil said in a overly done mafia voice once she was sure that he coin was real gold.
She then put the coin into her ear, setting my ick-factor-meter off, which added several points to her ick-factor rating.
Ignoring Lil's ear-stashing, I turned to Nami and told her what I knew, in a very riddle like sort of way.
"There is a guy in Syrup Village, he has a long nose and tends to lie a lot. He'll be joining our crew." I said, closing my eyes and smiling at her as she started looking between me and my cat, hoping that I was going to tell her more. "Apart from that, no idea."
"OK, but, is that really all you see?" She asked, clearly wanting to know more.
"Sorry, but you already used up all your freebies, and I doubt you want to pay me any more until you see if it comes true or not." I said, laying back and cuddling up to Choco again.
She'll just have to wait and see what happens for herself.
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