Chapter 25: Whiskey Peak, enter, party, excape
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.
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Status: Season two 10/39 complete. (OMFG, the actual second season only had 16 episodes, and season tree was only 15 episodes long, but they aired as though they were the same season, so I'm counting them as the same one here. I'm also adding the Apis ark to this season's count because the funimation first season didn't have it in it.)
1) The pairing poll now has 31 voters, Zoro has 15 votes, ace has 14, and Luffy has 13. I got to say, I'm a little surprised that Franky only has 4 votes.
Tsudo-Tobi would like me to correct a few things: he is not a pervert, he is a super pervert and not even the white haired sonin would be able to comprehend his perviness.
He also wants to tell MonkeyGurl that, after reading yourreview, he thinks he can take you. He's the perv king and you don't scare him. He also says that he'll force me to write your idea in because he likes it. (Please note that Tsudo-Tobi is a real person, He's one of my best friends and has a tendency to force people to do as he says, so please don't kill the writer for writing this message.) (Also, he can force me to write something pervi, but I refuse to write a nude scene. Not going to happen.)
and now that I have given you his message, here's my own pervi answer to your question: In skypia.... Half naked men and women, Skyler, Zoro, Sanji, lighting, clothes burning,
system over load!
system over load!
cannot compute,
cannot compute,
malfunction,
malfunction....
danger will robinson... danger..
'Head explodes'.
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
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The diaries of Kaede Tsuda Burnett, day 45
I still can't believe how powerful that massive storm was. It nearly killed us! I guess I can kind of see why it was so hard for Krieg to get out of it. It was icy cold one moment, and burning the next. First a hurricane, then a storm, and then another hurricane, only for it to turn back into a storm a second later.
I also underestimated the amount of time it would take us to get through it. It took us almost a full day to get through it, and by that time, the ship had near sunk into the ocean four times thanks to the fact that it had gotten completely covered by ice!
Luckily, I've been practicing my fire spell, which I was able to do without setting the ship on fire. It melted the ice in the flash of a... well, fire.
It was also kind of funny when Vivi and Mr. 9 tried lecturing Nami on being a navigator when the ship had gotten turned around. They had also lectured me about how I seemed to know everything, but hadn't known about the currents turning us around.
So, Nami kicked them out onto the deck so they could help with the work, and I had zapped them with electricity for being pains in the ass. It was amusing to watch them running around while looking like crispy fritters.
It had kind of pissed me off, though, when I found out that Zoro had been sleeping the whole time.
I had also somehow gotten dragged into a snowball fight with Usopp and Luffy when Luffy had destroyed Usopp's snow sculpture, causing Usopp to retaliate by destroying Luffy's snowman with a snowball, and then for Luffy to fight back by throwing a snowball at Usopp, which hit me.
It was kind of fun for a while, but Nami had ruined it by yelling at us.
Anyway, maybe I should write about everything else that's happened. I haven't written anything in a while. I didn't even get a chance to write about everything that happened in Logue town... I guess that's the price I pay for crashing into Nami's tangerine trees.
Well, I guess I should start with what me in Nami did.
We ended up stealing a lot of stuff from the marine base, and nearly getting killed because Buggy's part apparently were able to drag him right to us. Nami and I weren't able to find any treasure in the base though, as Buggy had showed up right before we even got a chance to start looking for it. In an attempt to get away from him, I ended up crashing into Nami's tangerine trees and getting my self knocked out.
The others finally told me what happened while me and Nami were dealing with Buggy and stealing from the marine base, which Nami hadn't told them about apparently. When I told them what we were doing, Usopp nearly shit in his pants, and Luffy started laughing about how 'that was just like his two thieves'. Sanji called us both amazing and said he was going to 'kill that bastard for hurting Nami swan, and Kaede sweet', while Zoro simply rolled his eyes at us and called us both crazy, which pissed Sanji off and started a fight between them that involved a bunch of kicks and sword thrusts.
Anyway, I'm getting off topic. I guess I have a tendency to prattle on about things... my mother always used to say I was like a train that was on a set of tracks with a fork in them, and that sometimes I had to backtrack a bit because I had a tendency to go down the wrong track of conversation and lead away from the conversation all together. I guess I even get sidetracked when I write.
So, where was I? Oh yeah! What the others had been up to.
Well, Usopp turned out to have gone to the cooking contest and then to a trinket shop where he found something for everyone. Nami got a new gold compass from him, Zoro got a sharpening stone, Sanji got a kitchen sharpening stone, Luffy got a waterproof sealer for his hat, Lil got some strange little thing that was supposed to clean her litter box, Choco got a bundle of hay so he could make a nest, and I got a smelting mold for bracelets.
He knows me so well.
Then there was the others. Sanji had won the cooking contest, and had put the fish onto the ship. He had then, as it turned out, had to run all the way to the town square, where he had found Luffy bolted down to the execution plat form like a thief.
It also turned out that Buggy had demanded to know where his missing parts were, and hadn't liked Luffy's answer when he told him that he didn't know. He had then apparently used his chop chop reassemble move, which had led him to me.
After that, Cabaji had taken over as Luffy's would-be executioner, and then Luffy's dad saved him, which I had already told Nami about, though I still haven't told them that it's dragon. I guess I'll let them find out in Waters seven.
Anyway, the rest was pretty much the same, got of wind, fight with Smoker, head for the ship. All of it.
So that's what happened apparently. Guess it was kind of the same, though the Buggy thing was very different.
Anyway, what should I write about now?
Oh, I've been melting down the Sea Prism stone stuff we found, and have made some pellets out of them for Usopp, which he seems to be extremely happy about. Something about not having to run away from devil fruit users now that he has their weakness. I'm glad he likes them. I also made a bracelet for each of us non-devil fruit people, though we have to where something over them so we don't accidental touch Luffy with them. A little bit of Usopp's sewing, and we now have fabric cases over them that we can remove whenever we want.
Anyway, we just spotted the cactus like island of Whiskey Peak a little while ago, so I should probably get going. I'll write back again later whenever I have time.
Signed, The diaries of a Mad Cat Woman.
Closing my journal, which was quickly becoming my Diary, I stood up from my sitting position in the crows nest and looked down below to see what was going on.
Nami was saying something about naps as she slowly beat Zoro over the head a few times, angry at him for napping the past five days away.
That's right, he had been napping for the past five days and hadn't been awake at all during the freaky weather storms.
If he thought that Nami was the only one that was going to hurt him, MUHAHAHAHA!
"Yo, Zoro." I called out as he was holding his now abused head.
Zoro looked up at me and paled when he saw me holding my fingers in a 'snapping' position.
"Thunder!" I shouted in a commanding voice, sending a bolt of electricity down and hitting him on the head. "The ship nearly sank four times because of all the snow that was on it, we went through seven different hurricanes, and all you could do was nap?!" I said angrily, causing him to glance back up at me once his body had recovered from being electrocuted.
"Snow? Sinking? Huh?" He asked, clearly not having a single clue as to what I was talking about.
"Listen up!" Nami called to everyone, stopping me from making a scathing comment to Zoro. "Stay on your toes, there's no telling what could happen next! I can finally grasp the fearsomeness of this ocean. I understand why the call it the Grandline... But it hasn't even begun to see MY navigation skills!" She said, holding up a fist in a battle ready stance. "Bet on it!"
"Land, hoe." I called down to her jokingly, causing her to throw a tangerine at my head, which I happily caught and ate. "But seriously, I see the giant cactus's of Whiskey Peak."
Everyone looked up at my comment and saw that I was right. The thick fog that had been blanketing the sea in front of us was finally starting to clear, reveling huge cactus's that were so big, the could have been island on their own.
"There's the proof of it, the first leg of our journey is complete!" Nami called out happily at seeing the island in front of us.
While everyone was looking at the island in amazement, Vivi and Mr. 9 walked over and stood on top of the side railing of the ship.
"LAND HO!" Luffy shouted happily, happy to see our first island in the Grandline.
"So this is Whiskey Peak..." Sanji said in amazement, wandering if it was possible to soute some of the cacti, and also wandering if there were any pretty girls on the island.
What? Oh come on! It's Sanji for crying out loud!
"Sure is a weird looking island..." Zoro said, looking around at all the cacti.
"Check out those huge cacti!" Luffy said in amazement, though he didn't have to.
We were all already looking at the cacti, and I was already starting to wander if I could concoct something out of them.
"hm... giant cacti pins... might make nice weapons..." I thought, looking around at all the giant spikes on the cacti that I could already see from our ship.
If I could already see the pins, then they had to be at least the same size as me or Choco, because we were so far away that they shouldn't have been visible yet.
"This is our stop." Mr. 9 said, getting everyone's attentions as he and Vivi bowed to us.
"Thank you for the ride, my honeys." Vivi said, right before her and Mr. 9 jumped into the ocean and started swimming over to the island as fast as they could.
"There they go..." Nami said in amazement, wandering why they had taken off like that.
"Who were those guys anyway?" Usopp asked, only for me to remained tight lipped about it.
"Didn't you say that we were going to have to save them?" Zoro asked, remembering what I had said at the twin capes.
"Yeah, but that hasn't happened yet. Enjoy the calm while it lasts." I said, causing Usopp and Nami to look at me in horror.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ENJOY THE CALM WHILE IT LASTS?!" they both demanded, clearly understanding that I was saying that there was going to be a hectic future for all of us.
Muhahahaha!
"Who cares? We're here!" Luffy said happily, causing Nami and Usopp to hand their heads in despair.
I almost felt bad for them, almost.
"There's a river mouth up ahead." Nami said in misery, wishing we could just turn back and leave.
"You don't think there'll be monsters and stuff here, do you?" Usopp asked, shaking slightly in fear at what was probably going to be on the island, waiting to kill us all.
"Yep, exploding buggers, actually." I said evilly, causing him to suddenly come down with 'i-can't-go-to-that-island-frightus, the deadly decease he seemed to get whenever we were heading somewhere that might be dangerous. "And the best part is, we can't leave this island until the log pose logs the magnetic field of this island, so we might be here for a while."
Usopp almost fainted at my statement, clearly not liking the idea of being on an island with exploding buggers, something that Nami didn't seem to happy about either.
"There aren't really exploding buggers on this island, is there?" She asked, hoping that I had just been joking when I said that.
I hadn't.
At least not completely.
"Not yet, but there will be. Don't worry, Luffy and Zoro can take care of them." I said, hoping that I wouldn't have to deal with bugger boy either.
I might think it's funny when messing with Usopp, but bugger boy was just grouse.
"No matter what happens, I'll protect Nami swan and Kaede sweet!" Sanji said, causing me and Nami to smile at him.
"And Vivi chan." I said, happy that I had refrained from telling them who Miss. Wednesday actually was.
"Ewww! Does that mean we're getting another crew member?" Luffy asked excitedly as Nami, Sanji, and Usopp instantly perked up.
"Another girl on the crew? Is she as lovely as my Nami swan and Kaede sweet?" Sanji asked happily with heats in front of his eyes as he started doing the 'wiggly wiggly' dance with his legs.
"Another girl on the crew?! Does this one like to go shopping and hunt for treasure?" Nami asked happily.
Everyone seemed to be happy about the ideal of another crew member, especially one that wasn't another guy. I almost felt bad about having to crush all their hopes and dreams on the subject.
"Another crew member? Only for a little while. She's the princes from one of the kingdoms I said we'd be saving." I said, causing Nami's eyes to turn into dollar signs like they always did when she thought of money, and also causing Sanji to get even bigger heats in his eyes.
Nami clearly was thinking about some sort of a reward while Sanji was off in his own little world thinking about a beautify princess.
"She'll become our temporary crew member on this island, but don't go talking about her while we're here." I warned them, looking at each of them seriously. "And don't go mentioning the fact that I'm a witch, that I'm psychic, or that Lil is able to talk. From now on, no one can mention the fact that I'm psychic and a witch, or that Lil can talk whenever we're on an island. I don't want people knowing any of those things! The marines only know I'm a witch, they don't know I'm psychic or that Lil can talk, so it's best if we keep it all a secret so we can use those facts against them if we ever need to."
everyone seemed to understand the weight of what I was saying. If the marines ever found out about any of that, they would be able to prepare themselves in some way to deal with them, and that wasn't a happy thought.
Nodding their heads, everyone agreed to keep it a secret and turned to look at the island as we pulled into it.
Sailing through the island and to the town took a lot longer then I had thought it was going to. In fact, it took so long that I actually threw caution to the wind and flew over to one of the giant cacti and started pulling off some of it's giant pins, which were just as long as Choco was tall, and he was already over seven feet tall.
We also found that there were thousands of graves all over the place, which I quickly lied to Sanji about and told him that they were just graves of the people that had died here years ago during some freak storm.
The only reason I was lying to him about it was that I didn't want deal with it at the moment, we would end up dealing with it later anyway, and I wasn't about to worry about it until I absolutely had to.
I really don't like talking about graves, it freaks me out.
After I had grabbed a good thirty or forty of pins, along with Sanji's help since he wasn't really doing anything and had offered to give me a hand, I quickly put them all into my froggy bag headed back over to the ship, careful to only fly were I was sure no one would be able to see me.
The fact that I had the piece of mind to stay low and out of sight while flying was probably really lucky because I was sure that we were being watched.
It might sound weird, but I was sure I could hear someone watching us, like a quiet breathing sound that wasn't even within a tenth of a mile of us. But it wasn't even breathing that I was hearing, it was just... I not know... the wind moving around and object that wasn't completely stationary or something. It was weird and freaky.
It made me wander if this was how cats always felt, and it also made me wander if this was why cats always seemed to freeze and look up at nothing. Freaky didn't even begin to describe it.
When we were back on the ship, I told Lil about what I had experienced, and she confirmed my suspicions.
We were being watched.
I wander if this was what it felt like to be trapped in a glass tank as a fish with people poking and prodding at the glass around you.
Keeping the fact that we were being watched to ourselves, me and Lil sat back and waited for us to finally reach the town where we would first be given an incredible amount of food, and then pass out in a food comma for the pirate hunters to kidnap us in.
it took us another twenty minutes to finally start to see movement and light through the for, indicating that we were finally nearing the town.
"People?" Sanji asked as the fog started to clear a little, allowing us to see a huge amount of people that were now gathering around the shorelines as we past them. "There are people on the shore!"
They were everywhere! The feeling of being watched was nothing compared to this! The only reason why I didn't freak out at being practically surrounded was because I knew that they weren't above me, and that meant I could fly away if I needed to.
"Everyone, on your guard." Nami said, causing everyone to stiffen, though me, Lil, and Choco didn't need to be told this.
We were already freaking out enough as it was.
"Guys, I think you should know, I don't see anything bad happening to us right now, and I know they aren't going to attack." I whispered to them, causing everyone to relax a little. "But that isn't stopping me from freaking out. I REALLY don't like being cornered like this."
While everyone had relax a little when I had said that I knew they weren't going to attack us, the all quickly went back on guard when I said they were freaking me out.
When your psychic is freaking out, it's usually not a good sign.
Everyone waited for whatever was about to happen. None of us were really one hundred percent sure of what was coming, and everyone had heard it in my voice when I said it.
The believe that I saw that everything was going to be OK, but they could all tell that I wasn't really believing whatever it was that I had seen.
Just as the fog started to clear even more, the cheering started.
Everyone on in the town that we now found ourselves in front of were cheering for us, seemingly happy to see us.
Sighing heavily, I sank to the deck of the ship and onto my ass, happy that my changes hadn't changed this.
I really didn't like the idea of having to fight these people right off the back, not when I could just let Zoro do it while everyone thought we were asleep, then follow around behind him and pick-pocket stuff off the knocked out jerks.
Safety first and all.
Men and women were everywhere on the shore, shouting and cheering at us as they waved at us in excitement. They were all clearly happy to see us, and for good reason.
I might not remember everything about this ark, but I do remember this: We're their meal ticket.
"Welcome to the Grandline!" one of the men shouted happily to us, waving his arms in excitement.
"Welcome to our town!" Another man shouted, just as happy as the first one was.
"The town of celebration! Whiskey Peak!" Another one continued for the second, happily telling us about the town, even though we hadn't asked.
"The exploding bugger town is... welcoming us?" Usopp asked in amazement, using his fancy West Blue Goggles to get a closer look.
"Yeah, that's what I saw in my vision, but I was to busy freaking out about being surrounded to tell you guys why we were going to be OK." I said, sighing as I tried to calm my nerves and remembering to keep my voice low enough so that the town couldn't hear me.
A few minutes later, when we had docked at the towns port, Igaram came forward and introduced himself as Igarappoi, which made me laugh slightly as it was the Japanese word for irritating.
He also said that he was the town mayor and that everyone was happy to see us because the town was a town of spirit and celebration, and pirates coming was just something for them to celebrate.
Which was kind of backwards as pirates showing up was usually a time to run, not to celebrate, but if it meant that I would get a chance to steal junk from them while they tried to trick us, then it was fine by me.
He then asked us if we would join in the celebration and tell them all stories of our adventures.
And of course, Luffy, Sanji, and Usopp were quick to agree. Luffy loved any reason to celebrate, Usopp loved any reason to brag, and Sanji loved anything that might get him a date with a cute girl or two.
Men.
About two hours later we were still partying. There was music, there was food, there was an eating competition that some idiot honestly thought he was going to win even though he was up against Luffy.
There was everything.
Usopp was telling some of his lie-stories to a couple of girls that really did seem to like him, though the fact that I knew they were part of the Millions group that worked under the frontier agents of crocodile made me hate them for this.
I felt kind of bad for Usopp, the only girls apart from Kaya that liked him were just pretending to like him so that hey could kill him. He was one of my friends, and the fact that these girls were doing that to him was extremely annoying.
Bitches.
Then there was Sanji, who was flirting with twelve different chicks at the same time. I didn't feel nearly as bad for him as he always seemed to be the center of a bunch of women as it was, and it was kind of his own fault as he was such a lecher to begin with.
The fact that Miss Catharine, woman that was dressed up like a nun and had a cross in her hands, was one of the women that were swooning over Usopp annoyed me. I might not be a Catholic, but I still believed that religion was one of the lines that you just didn't cross.
Being a bitch that seduced men and then killed them while dressing up like a nun was just going a little bit to far.
She was definitely on my shit-list, and I couldn't water for the chance to fry her child molesting ass and her little twelve year old boy-toy, Mr. Beans, with her.
It wasn't until Igaram tried to offer me and Nami some non-alcoholic wine that things really got interesting. After we finally agreed to try it, he announced that there was going to be a traditional Kanpai Contest to see who could drink the most.
"Let me explain." He said, pulling out a large bag of gold that made Nami's eyes turn into dollar signs, and I couldn't exactly blame her either as I was pretty sure that my eyes were doing the exact same thing. "It's a contest where everyone keeps drinking and the last one standing is the winner! And the prize for the winner is 100,000 beli!" He said, setting the money in the middle of the table.
After agreeing to the contest happily, with Nami forcing Zoro to join in as he still owed her a bunch of money, I quickly told them all to wait a sec while I went to the bathroom real quick.
Once in the bath room with Lil, who followed me in order to find out what I was up to, I quickly took the froggy bag and folded it up as best as I could and had her get in it.
"You stay in the froggy bag while I hid it in my mouth, as I pretend to drink the wine, I'll really be poring it into the froggy bag, and I want you to catch it in the jar we still have left over from the dried fruits and nuts from back when we fought with Buggy the first time." I explained, causing her to raise a kitty eyebrow at me.
"You're cheating?" She asked, only for me to open the froggy bag and hold it open for her to get in.
"Duh! I'm not drinking anything with alcohol in it, even if it is supposed to be unnoticeable. And I wouldn't drink any either if I was you as I'm pretty sure it's drugged." I said as she got into the bag.
Seeing that there was no way I was going to fit the froggy bag into my mouth even with it rolled up, I quickly folded it so that almost all of it was inside it's own mouth, successfully shrinking it down to just its golden mouth, which was about as long as my middle finger, and about as thing as a pencil. As long as I didn't try to talk to much, no one would ever know.
Walking back out of the bathroom and over to the contestants, I simply smiled at everyone.
"Sorry about that, I had to take care of something. Anyway, let's begin!" I said happily, careful not to open my mouth to much and smiling when I realized that neither Nami nor Zoro had any idea of what I was up to.
The money was as good as mine and Nami couldn't even force me to give her some for keeping her mouth shut about my cheating since she didn't know about it.
I rule.
The fact that Nami hadn't spilled even one drop of wine on her favorite 'Mode' shirt had surprised me slightly, but I should have known that she would move slowly and deliberately in order to throw the guys off as well as in order to protect her favorite shirt.
By the end of the competition, it was just me and Zoro as Nami had dropped out on her fifteenth tankard. I was acting a little bit tipsy to make it look like I was starting to be effected by my twenty seven tankards, and it seemed to work to. All I had to do was out 'drink' Zoro and I would be 100,000 beli richer.
"Give up Zoro, my metabolic abilities allow me to drink way more then a human can." I said, momentarily forgetting that the people of Whiskey Peak didn't know I was a Ctarl-Ctarl.
"Fe- I'm not don't yet." the moss haired man said, asking for yet another tankard as I did the same.
By the end of the competition, Zoro had only lost because I had ordered ten more and had pored them all down my 'throat' in the blink of an eye, causing Igaram to declare me the winner as it was clear that I was never going to stop.
Kind of felt bad for him, I did, but that didn't mean I wasn't happy about my winnings.
Shortly after the contest ended, I pretended to pass out and aloud the members of the Millions group to drag me and everyone else off, though I was happy when the she man Miss. Monday couldn't find the prize money anywhere on me.
"They've finally tired themselves out and fallen asleep." I heard Igaram say in disgust as we were dragged off to the room they were planing to keep us in.
I didn't even grunt as they practically tossed me onto the floor of the room, continuing with my 'passed out act."
God dammit, someone give me an Emmy already!
Less then a second after they left, I sat up just in time to see Zoro sneak out through the back window.
Shaking my head at the fact that he was heading off for whatever reason, i pulled the froggy bag out of my mouth and then poked at Nami as Lil clawed her way out of it.
"I know you're awake too, so you can stop faking it." I whispered to her, crawling over to the window to look out of it.
"How did you drink that much? I nearly past out from all of that." She said, gettng up as I signaled that the cost was clear.
"Well, I wasn't going to drink any of it as I was pretty sure it was drugged, but if you're awake, I guess I was wrong. Anyway, I just put the froggy bag in my mouth and used it to take all the wine in." I said, causing her to glare at me.
"And you didn't want to tell me this because?" She asked, glaring daggers at the back of my head.
"Because I didn't want to have to pay you off to keep you from ratting me out, but as the contest is over and the fight's about to start, I don't need to worry about that anymore." I said, throwing the bag of gold into my froggy bag as I got ready to go out and have a bit of fun.
I was going to do some luting, and I wanted to have a go at Miss. Catherin and Mr. Beans.
Nami glared at me when she realized that I really didn't have to give her any money as she hadn't helped me out and she didn't have anything on me to black mail me with.
Seven points Nami, three points Kaede...
Maybe I should give up already? Nah...
"Anyway, you do your thing, I'm going to go do mine." I whispered to her, getting a nod from her as I pulled out my broom and flew out the window with Lil sitting on the tail end of it.
Choco was still on the ship as I had told him to stay there just in case, so I knew I didn't have to worry about him.
Floating around as slowly and quietly as I could so that no one would here me, I stopped when I heard Igaram speaking.
"Sweet dreams, my little adventurers. The night, the dancing moonlight is glistening beautifully on the Cactus Rocks." I heard him say as I slowly rose up into the air so I could get a better look, praying that I wasn't going to get caught.
"Well, aren't you the poet, Igarappoi?" Mr. 9 asked him just as I was finally able to see them over the roof tops. "Or rather, Mr. 8."
"So, it's you two." Igaram said, not turning around to look at Mr. 9 or Vivi, who was sitting right next to him.
"What of them?" Vivi asked Igaram, clearly talking about us.
"They have fallen." He answered, slowly turning to look at them. "Into hell, that is."
"Honestly." A voice called out as the sound of a door opening rang through the air. "They were a stubborn bunch."
It was Miss. Monday, who was also dressed like a nun, much to my annoyance.
If it wasn't for the fact that she was a good guy on some strange cosmic level, I would have added her to my shit list as well.
Like I said before, I might not be anything even near Catholic, but I still believe that you should never pretend to be a nun when you killed people for a living.
"We had to keep putting more and more alcohol into their drinks." she continued, walking out of the shadows and over to the others. "If we hadn't, they'd still be awake and causing a ruckus. Still, was it really necessary to put on that drama?" she asked as she removed the nun outfit, revealing a very masculine women's body in a red and white checkerboard dress. "For five measly little kids? We should have finished them off at the harbor. Even without them here, the whole town as a food shortage to worry about. I knew these two wouldn't be able to bring back that whale meat."
"You don't have to say it like that!" Mr. 9 said defensively, turning to glare at her for her comment. "We tried very hard, I'll have you know!"
"Compose yourselves!" Igaram demanded, getting their attentions and causing them to end their little fight. "Look at this." He said, lifting two wanted posters into the air, both of which were mine and Luffy's. "I've been doing some checking on them."
"60,000,000 beli?! For those two?!" they other three shouted in surprise, unable to believe their eyes.
"Black witch?!" Miss. Monday added when she saw my title.
Everyone knew that the witches had been wiped out by the world government because of their power.
"It is foolish to judge a pirate's abilities by their appearance alone, Miss. mo-" Igaram said as he put our wanted posters away, stopping when he needed to clear his throat. "Mah-mah-maaah-!" He sang, clearing his throat in his own weird way. "Miss. Monday."
"I'm ashamed." Miss. Monday said, rubbing the back of her head in embarrassment at having assumed we were all weak.
"But now that they've been disposed of," Igaram started, turning away and looking back out at the moon. "We can make a favorable report to the boss. We'll take all the valuables on their boat immediately."
"And what about them?" Miss. Monday asked, wandering what they were going to do with us.
"What will we do?" Mr. 9 asked, wanting to know what they should do with us.
"If we kill them, we lose 30% of the bounty." Igaram stated, thinking about what the best course of action was. "The government enjoys its public executions after all. Now go, capture them alive!"
the others had just been about to answer him when Zoro appeared out of nowhere and landed on the roof of the building right in front of me and called out and got there attentions.
Meaning they turned to look at him.
And he was just in front of me.
Meaning they could see him.
And me.
DAMMIT ZORO!
"Sorry to interrupt." He said, smirking down at them from his position on the roof top while I glared at the back of his head, though I was pretty sure that it looked like I was glaring at them instead. "But could you let them sleep a little longer? They're tired from this afternoon's voyage."
"Mr. 8! Miss. Monday!" A man shouted, running out of the same door that Miss. Monday had come out of just a little while ago. "The one with the haramaki and the one with the white hair has escaped!"
"We can see that, they're up there." Vivi, aka Miss. Wednesday said, not taking her eyes off of us for a second.
Zoro glanced around and then behind him to see who else they were talking about, only to see me glaring daggers at him.
"You moron! They didn't even know I was hear until you alerted them to it! I was going to do everything a bit covertly!" I said angrily, pulling my mallet out of nowhere and bopping him on the head with it.
"Fiends! You should have been completely unconscious!" Igaram said angrily, demanding to know why we weren't out of it.
"Fiends? Coming from a guy that works for an organization bent on world domination and the destruction of a kingdom, I don't think you really understand who the real fiends here are." I said, looking down at him in annoyance.
OK, so he's not really a fiend, but I was trying to keep them from finding out that I knew that.
Zoro simply blinked at me before turning his attention back to the group before us. "World domination?"
A few minutes and a really long conversation that had made me want to fall asleep later, the battle had begun.
Zoro was running around and slicing people up while I was simply dodging attacks and pickpocketing everyone that hit the ground.
It was kind of nice to be able to simply watch the show as Zoro kept appearing and disappearing, causing the people to attack themselves. The few that were smart enough to attack me as I couldn't simply vanish ended up getting the shit zapped out of them.
Or end up with some very blue balls, as one guy found out rather painfully when he grabbed me from behind and held a sword to my throat. In my anger and attempts to get free, I suck my left head down behind me and in between us near is privet area, and had promptly shouted blizzard.
Well, I bet that was like one hell of a cold shower.
The man had promptly past out after having his Golly rogers frozen, and I might have gotten a little to mallet happy on him a second later while he was past out.
Johnny the moron had – one lump, Johnny the moron had – two lumps, Johnny the moron had-fifty lumps, how many lumps did Johnny get?
Once I was done beating the shit out of the passed out and blue-balled man, I turned around and found that Zoro was standing on top of one of the buildings with everyone looking up at him.
"He defeated Miss. Monday in a battle of strength!" one of the men shouted, looking up at him in horror.
"This can't be happening!" Another said, taking a step back in apprehension.
"Ah! T-that's it!" Igaram said, a thought suddenly popping into his head. "The Marines must have made a mistake on the wanted poster!"
"I see, so that's what's going on." Mr. 9 said, the same thought popping into his head head as well, along with everyone else's. "If he's the one worth 40,000,000 Beli then it makes perfect sense. He must be the real captain!"
"So that's must be it." Vivi said in comprehension. "I knew it was strange for such a smiley-faced kid to be worth 40,000,000 beli."
"Wrong-o!" I said from behind all of them, floating on my broom in a sidesaddle sort of way.
Everyone spun around in the blink of an eye to look at me, having completely forgotten about me all together.
"That smiley-faced kid really is the captain, and the man up there isn't even the first mate." I said, pointing up at Zoro. "Though he probably should be, but that's not the point. We're all a lot stronger then the marines think we are, the man up there is the only swordsman in history to get the respect as a swordsman from my father, Hawk-eye Mihawk."
my statement about my father caused everyone in the area to take a step back in horror, unable to believe what they had just heard.
"Hawk-eyed Mihawk?!" One of the men shouted in horror, practically running away in his attempt to back away from me.
"The daughter of Hawk-eyed Mihawk?! No way!" Another one yelled in shock as well, while two of them seemed to just give up and took off running.
"Hm, I heard a rumor about Mihawk's daughter, but I wasn't expecting for one of you to be the same lady." Igaram said, narrowing his eyes at me. "Why are you here?"
His question clearly said more then what the others thought it was saying. He clearly thought that crocodile had asked my father to take care of him and the princess, which just went to prove that he didn't know anything about the seven deadly warlords of the sea.
They didn't help each other, ever.
"To kill crocodile." I said simply, causing his and Vivi's jaws to drop along with everyone elses.
Including Zoro's.
"What?!" Zoro demanded, wanting to know what I was talking about.
"Remember what I said before Zoro, about there being two kingdoms we needed to save and protect? Well, this is Igaram, the head of royal guard, and Princes Nefertari Vivi, the princes of one of the two kingdoms we're here to protect." I said, causing both of the people that had just been named to drop their jaws to the ground. "And speaking of which, crocodile is sending people after you, we need to get you to-"
I never got a chance to finish my safety as I was hit in the back with a tinny-tiny object that promptly exploded on impact.
The fact that I was pretty sure what the object was nearly killed me simply because of how high the ick-factor was.
An exploding bugger.
"Mr. 5! Miss. Valentine!" Igaram exclaimed in surprise while Zoro hoped down off the roof and helped me up.
"Hehehehehe." Mr. 9 laughed, thinking that they were there to help. "Thanks, they don't stand a chance with you guys backing us up!"
"That's right!" Vivi said, not noticing how Igaram was now slowly backing away from Mr. 5 and Miss. Valentine. "Please hurry and take care of the swordsman and the girl!"
Igaram was still slowly backing away from them, having finally figured out what I had been saying and understanding just who the two people that were sent by crocodile to kill them were.
"Huh? Quit the lame jokes." Mr. 5 said seriously, looking down on her as he did so. "You want us to 'back you up'?"
"You think we came all the way to this end of the Grandline for that?" Miss. Valentine said, laughing at them as though the very thought was funny.
"Then what kind of a mission are..." Mr. 9 started, only for him and the others to start backing away when they remembered what I had been in the middle of saying when I had gotten hit with the exploding bugger.
"Like I said." I said as I climbed back onto my broom. "We're here to save you, their here to kill you."
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All hale the cliffhanger.
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