Chapter 34: Onward to Arabasta, Thanksgiving update.
Summery: It's one of THOSE stories, you know, girl falls into one piece, and destroys all of existence… OK… maybe not that last part… but she does irritate the hell out of Zoro.
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.
A/N3: Just so you guys know, I'm also editing some of the older chapters (Again), so they are why it is taking me so long to update now. (chapters 1-8 have been edited)
A/N4: Please note that the extra characters in this chapter will not be staying, they are just heading the same way as the crew, so that is as far as they will travel with them.
Since we have no idea what these guys can do, send in suggestions please:
Mr. 6
Miss. Tuesday
Miss. Thursday
Mr. 12
Miss. Saturday
OK, so I've been putting this off for a while, and I'm sure you've noticed that the last two chapters were just fillers, but it has to happen sometime. So... hear it is, the final chapter of 'My Life In One Piece'.
I kind of forgot to say this in the last chapter, so I'll say it here:
Orso Mcgee belongs to Dthehalfdragon
Nicky Evans Belongs to Holy Star
Sora No'Name Belongs to Wateranddarkness666
Ning Yo Belongs to CoraCora
Garret Burgess, from chapter 33, belongs to jackinafrickinbox
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
Long red, white, black, tan, and yellow exotic looking striped spiked fins stuck out of the sides, back, face, and arms of a women that I had never seen before. She was wearing a large mantel and cape that was pulled back so that it wasn't blocking her arms. There was also a woolly hat pulled low over her forehead, though it didn't quite hide her spines on her cheeks. She also had on a pair of really baggy pants, and though I couldn't see her shirt, I was sure it was just as baggy as her pants were. The whole outfit kind of looked like the one that Piccolo from dragon ball z always wore, though his was a dark purple and the fishwoman's was just a dark brown.
She was definitely a lion-fishwoman, and though I knew it was biased to dislike her simply because she was the same kind of Fishmen that Kongo had been, that didn't stop me from wanting to electrocute the sushi-wannabee on the spot. Ever sense I met Kongo, I had developed a strange dislike for all Fishmen, though the fact that I was part cat couldn't exactly be helping much. Cats eat fish, so I was probably just in a 'hunting fishies' kind of a mood or something. In the end, I couldn't really be sure why I wanted to kill her, be it Kongo or Cat-instincts, but the lion-fishwoman was just lucky that I actually have some amount of control, or else she would have been one crispy fried critter.
As I continued to glare down at the fishwoman, getting closer and closer to her and our ship, she simply continued moving around the ship as fast as she could, trying to fix the massive hole in the ship that had been caused by Mr. 10's attempt to kill her and her friends just a little while ago. She was working as hard and fast as she could to fix the ship, though I was sure it was mostly because it was her and her friends fault that the Merry got hit in the first place. She didn't exactly need the ship to be fixed, seeing as she was a fishwoman and could just swim from island to island without a problem, so it getting fixed didn't really effect her either way.
Even though I was sure that she was helping to fix it because she had helped caused the hole in the first place, that didn't stop me from wanting her to get the hell away from it.
"Huh, who's the weird looking girl?" he asked in confusion, completely oblivious to the deadly glare I was currently sending at the back of the 'weird looking girl's' head.
"Don't know. I don't remember seeing her before the fight." I said, somehow managing to tare my eyes away from her to look at the rest of the ship, only see that the damage to the ship was even worse then I had thought.
It was totaled.
There was a huge hole in it that went from one side to the other, completely cutting through it. The hole was in the side of the ship, but went right through the deck, making it looked like someone had cut half a circle right through it, with the spot where the railing used to be cutting right through the center of the circle. It was so big that the bottom edge of the hole was actually below the water now, which was why the ship was sinking.
And it was starting to sink even faster now. The more and more it filled up with water, the lower and lower it got in the ocean, which caused it to sink faster and faster.
"AH! The Merry is sinking!" Luffy and I shouted in unison, our eyes nearly popping out of our heads.
Flying down next to the ship, I went to work cast a few blizzard spells, trying to seal up part of the hole with ice.
"Blizzard!" I shouted, concentrating as hard as I could on the coldest thing I could think of, which just happened to be Drum island.
"Somebody do something!" I heard Nami shout as Luffy jumped off of my broom, landed on the ship, and went to work trying to fix the ship with the others. "The ship's sinking!"
"We're fixing it as fast as we can!" Lucian shouted back from inside the other side of the whole in the ship as I continued trying to seal it up with my spell,.
"Yeah! So why don't you stop shouting and start helping!?" Usopp shouted, hammering away at a bunch of pieces of wood he was trying to nail to the ship in order to patch up the hole completely.
"AH! MY FUR'S GETTING WET!" I Heard Lil shout from somewhere, which annoyed the hell out of me because with her being as strong as she was, she should have been patching up the ship like Usopp and the rest of us were, not running around complaining about her wet ass.
"Who cares about you're fur?! We're sinking! So start helping!" I heard Zoro shout angrily, trying to get her to help out.
"Yeah, so get to work!" Nami shouted at her as well, causing me to roll my eyes as I continued casting my spells, trying to think of something to stop the ship from sinking.
"That goes for you to, Nami!" Zoro shouted back at her, pointing out the same thing that I was thinking.
She wasn't exactly helping either, so she didn't really have any right to yell at my cat.
Best friends or not, if the Merry sinks, I'll kill her.
"Luffy?! Don't just stand there, fix something!" Zoro shouted angrily, clearly having just seen the rubber man. "And where the hell is Kaede?!"
"I'm trying to keep the ship from sinking, thank you very much!" I shouted at the moss-haired swordsman, wandering if he was close enough for me to zap. "Now stop you're bitching and start fixing the ship! That goes for everyone!"
"She's right!" I heard Sanji shouting, just as I finally finished coating one side of the ship in ice, successfully sealing up the half of the hole that was on the same side as I was. "Now start fixing the hole, Mirimo!"
"I'll get more wood!" I heard a strange voice shouting, the same one I had heard come out of the panda girls mouth before our ship was nearly destroyed. "Um? Where do you keep the wood anyway?"
"Ah! Why are we starting to tilt?!" Vivi shouted when the ship started to lean to one side, causing me to slap a hand to my forehead.
Wasn't I supposed to seal that side up too?
Shooting up into the air, I quickly flew over the ship and got onto the other side, casting the blizzard spell over and over again the moment I was in front of the hole.
Once I finally managed to seal the hole up with ice, which took a while, I flew back over to the other side of the ship again and cast blizzard on it a few times, knowing that the ice had to have started melting.
In the end, it took us all about three hours to replace my ice-patches with actual wood patches, and another hour to bale out most the water. When we were finally done saving the ship, all of us stepped back and surveyed the damage.
When the ship had been attacked, the fist-punch thing had ripped right through the center of the ship, unfortunately for the guys, that just happened to be where their room was. The men's room was located in the center of the ship, right under the mast, which we had barely managed to reattach.
"The men's room, it's almost completely destroyed." Nami in shock and horror while the rest of us just stared at the carnage in horror.
"It's not that bad, maybe we can fix it." Luffy said, being optimistic like always.
"Kaede, got a spell for this?" Sanji asked, clearly wandering if magic could help.
"No, the closest thing I have is a spell to clean up broken plant-pots." I said, vaguely remembering the spell I had read about in the 'cleaning with magic' book, which I only read because I was wandering if I could make Sanji's cleaning stuff magical, which I couldn't.
"Well, either way, I think Luffy's right. Maybe we can straighten this place up and make it look as good as new." Nichi said, causing me to glance at her.
She was always way to optimistic, like Luffy always was. It was mildly annoying sometimes, but at the moment, we kind of needed that optimism.
"Well, it's never gonna get fixed if we just stand here staring at it," Usopp said, walking over and picking up what used to be the side of a bookshelf. "Come on guys, let's get to work."
"I wish we had more pillows or something for you guys." Nami said, realizing that all of their pillows, covers, and sheets had been ruined by the sea water when the ship had started to go down.
"Huh? Can't we just use yours?" Luffy asked stupidly, causing all six of the girls, including Lil Carue, to hit him in the side of his head.
"We already don't have enough pillows and covers as it is." I pointed out angrily, wishing he would use his head for once.
"Yeah! We had to split TWO sets of covers and pillows between four girls, you idiot." Vivi pointed out, a large vein in her forehead throbbing slightly.
Never come between a girl and hear sleeping stuff, ever.
"Actually, it's more like two sets of pillows and covers for five girls, remember Carue needs a cover to stay warm to." Nami pointed out, causing the rest of us girls to nod in agreement.
"Oh come on!" Luffy said angrily, pouting at us like he always did when we kept something from him. "You're so mean!"
"For once, I'm with Luffy on this one. If we don't do something about this, then it's going to be really cold for some of us tonight." Zoro said, though I couldn't understand why as he had actually slept through a blizzard when we first entered the Grandline.
It wasn't like he would actually be able to feel the difference anyway.
"Hey, I'm willing to sacrifice a few covers and pillows to let the girls get a good night's sleep any time." Sanji said, half getting into Zoro's face in his attempt to defend us girls. "Besides, we could always just wash the covers, you idiot."
"Yeah, but what about the pillows? They're caked with sea water, and you can't exactly wash that out of them. We don't have a way to dry them, and Kaede's fire spell will just burn them." Usopp pointed out, thinking it over as he continued. "Plus, some of the covers were completely destroyed in the blast, and we need a new sail as well. The old one is now so full of hole that we're not going to be traveling very fast with it."
"Yeah, so we can't wash all the covers, because we don't actually have them anymore." Lucian pointed out, going into his 'I'm a king and I'm in charge' voice like he always did whenever he and Luffy didn't get their way.
"Well then what are we supposed to do? If you count Carue and Choco, there are twelve of us, but there are only five covers and seven pillows now." Usopp continued as though Lucian had never spoken, pointing out every angle of our situation like he always did.
Though I'm not really sure why, he always seemed to be able figure out every single obstacle, problem, or issue that we have to deal with way better then anyone else could, and he always managed to get us to deal with it logically instead of arguing about it, even though he almost never like our final decision on how to deal with those problems. (A/N: I know that doesn't sound right, but if you watch all the episodes, you'll see that it is. He really does always seem to be the voice of reason in the group, which is funny because he is usually the first one to freak out too.)
"Hey, what about us?" one of the four panda pirates piped up, the girl with red hair, causing all of us to turn and stair at them.
"Yeah, if you include us," The little talking teddy-bear said as he unzipped a pouch in his stomach and pulled out two more pillows and a large cover. "If you include us, there is sixteen of us, with only nine pillows and six pillows."
"WHO SAID YOU WERE STAYING?!" the rest of us shouted angrily, demanding to know why the hell they all thought we would be letting them stay after they nearly caused our ship to sink.
"Well," The fish woman said, causing me to turn a pair of glaring eyes on her. "We did nearly sink your ship, but we did repair it, didn't we? And our little dinghy is getting pretty close to sinking, so if you send us out to sea on it, we'll drown."
….
….
The fact that it was the fishwoman that said that they would drown if they were sent out to sea on their little boat didn't exactly help their situation. Since she could actually breath under water anyway, there wasn't really a chance of her drowning.
"You can breath under water, so you aren't going to drown, you idiot!" Lucian shouted at her, pointing out the very thing that all of us were thinking.
"Yeah, so that isn't exactly a very good argument, coming from a fishwoman and all." Nami said, crossing her arms and glaring down, or rather up, at the multicolored fishwoman.
"Yeah, but the rest of us can still drown!" the girl in the panda-hoody said, causing all of us to turn our eyes on her, and causing Sanji to go into his 'my fair maiden' mode.
"What a beautiful lady! Why, I've never seen such-"
Sanji never got to finish his sentence as Lil, Nami, Nichi, Vivi, and I all punched him in the top of his head as hard as we could. While none of us really had any feelings for him, in that way at least, none of us liked the way his sentence was going, plus it really wasn't the time for him to be going all googly-eyes over a girl, especially not when he was doing it over a girl that was one of the people that had nearly caused the Merry Go's destruction.
Once we were all sure he wasn't going to start swooning over her again, we all turned our attention back to the four Teddy-bear/Panda-bear pirates.
"Look, no affiance, but we don't even know who you guys are." Nichi pointed out, crossing her arms over her overly muscular chest while giving each of the strangers a good look over.
"And Merry was almost destroyed because of you." Usopp pointed out, reminding them that it was still their fault, even if they did try to help fix the ship.
If they hadn't tried to shelter their ship by getting as close to ours as possible in the first place, then the Merry Go would have never gotten damaged in the first place.
"Oh, come on, we can let them stay, can't we?" Sanji asked, doing that weird 'wiggly-wiggle' thing with his legs like always while his eyes turned into hearts.
"Sanji, would you get a grip already?" Nami growled, closing her eyes in an attempt to get rid of the headache that he was starting to cause her.
"Yeah, they can stay." Luffy finally said, causing the rest of us to stair at him in horror and surprise. "Now let's go eat some meat."
For some reason, whenever we were all trying to come to an agreement on something, or simply didn't want to do something because we didn't trust someone, Luffy always seemed to but in and decide for us. Technically, that was his right as captain, but that didn't mean we had to like it. He was allowing a group of people to stay on our ship even though we couldn't really trust them and they had caused a bunch of damage to our ship. It was a very Luffy thing to do, and the worst part is, we couldn't actually argue with him about it. We could try, but as captain, he made the big decisions, not us.
"WHAT?!" We all demanded in shock and horror at Luffy's sudden declaration, demanding to know what the hell was going through his little rubbery mind.
"Luffy, you can't just go making decisions like that! You've got to really think about these things before you just decide like that." Usopp said, trying to reason with him like always.
"Yeah, how do we know they wont attack us in our sleep?" Lucian asked, clearly thinking that letting them stay was a bad idea, and I couldn't exactly disagree with him either.
If it was Robin, I would say let her stay, but I didn't know anything about these people, and pirates weren't always like us. Usually they turned out to be bastards from hell or something, so letting strange pirates that we didn't even know anything about wasn't exactly an enticing idea. Actually, it was a stupid one. Unfortunately, Luffy was captain, and that meant that we could try to argue with him, but we couldn't actually go against a direct order.
That's the down side of having an idiot as your captain, you have to just close your eyes and hope you survive his stupid decisions.
"What?! They're really gonna kill us?!" Chopper shouted in horror, nearly fainting at the prospect of getting killed in his sleep by a walking-talking teddy bear.
"No, I swear my crew won't kill you. You have my word." The walking-talking teddy-bear said, bowing at us respectfully and indicating that he was their captain.
"So I take it you're their captain?" Zoro asked, crossing his arms and looking down at the little denim and patchwork teddy-bear-man.
"Yes, I am Orso McGee, captain of the Teddy-Bear Pirates. Nice to meet you." He said respectfully, bowing to us once again before turning to his right and introducing the rest of his crew. "This is my right hand girl, Sora No'Name. Like me, she is a scientist. She specializes in Robots, androids, and cyborgs as well as explosives. She's a bit of a nut and sometimes talks to herself, but she'll be fine as long as you keep her away from any and all explosives away from her. She like's to tinker with things, but she'll stay away from messing around with any of your things." He said, pausing to look glance at her as she slowly inched her way over to a few loose boards on the floor. "If she ever want's me to spend any of our gold on supplies for her experiments, that is." he added sternly, causing her to freeze and turn towards him with an overly innocent look on her face.
"Hehehe, I wasn't going to touch anything, honest." She said, moving back over to where she was before she spotted the pieces of wood.
On one hand, I was wandering what the heck she could possibly make with just two pieces of wood, on the other hand, Nami and I had both perked up when we heard Orso mention the word 'gold'.
Hey, diamonds might be a girl's best friend, but gold was the next best thing.
Well, Gold, rubies, sapphires, silver, Beli, any thing worth something really...
"Anyway, she is also my second in command, and while she's not always all there, mentally speaking, she's highly reliable." He continued before turning his attention towards the other two. "The one with the panda hoody is Nicky Evans, our Cook and musician, though I wouldn't eat any of the lollipops she makes if I were you, they tend to explode." he said causing all of us to take a step back from her.
What the hell was with this crew and it's fascination with explosives?!
"Also, while she might be the crew's cook, she doesn't cook very much because she hates lobsters, most fish, tea, and cheese cake." He said, causing us all to look at her oddly.
What kind of seafaring cook doesn't cook with fish? What the hell do they actually eat?
"And this," He continued, ignoring our confused glances as he gestured towards the lion-fishwoman. "is Ning Yo, our surveyor and our deep sea treasure salvage, as well as our animal identifier. If we don't know what the heck we're looking at, she's usually the one that figures it out for us. She doesn't fight, unless there is no other choice, but she's good at her job, so that's fine with us."
Once again, Nami and I both only heard the part about the treasure, and completely missed everything else. As far as we were concerned, the only important thing he mentioned was the gold and the treasure, everything else didn't really matter. Neither of us were really sure where they kept their gold as their ship was way to small for it, but we both had a feeling that it was inside the teddy-bear mans back or stomach pouch.
"Uh-oh." Zoro said lazily, seeing the dollar sign shaped our eyes suddenly took on at the word 'treasure'.
"Fine, they can stay, " Nami said suddenly, grinning from ear to ear and thinking the same thing that I was.
"Yeah, as long as they pay us rent." I said happily, grinning from ear to ear just like her and causing the others to look at us the as the we were crazy while Orso looked at us as though what we were saying was no big deal.
If that was the case, then the must have a lot of gold, more then what their little boat hinted at. Neither of us would have been all that surprised if that was the case, considering the fact that we had had over five million Beli when we finished dealing with Buggy the first time, and we only had two small dinghies back then.
"Pay rent?!" Nicky and Sora both demanded, both of them apparently hating the idea of having to pay us in order to be aloud to stay on the ship.
"Rent?" Luffy asked, while Nichi, Lucian, and Vivi sweat dropped, clearly wandering if this new rule implied to them as well.
"Yes, rent!" Nami said, turning to glare at him as though his question was ust plain stupid, which it was. "Every time we let someone else travel with us for a while, our reserves and food stores all get drained way to fast!"
"Yeah! I'm getting tired of always having to eat seaweed and kelp when you guys don't catch anything!" Lil piped up, joining in with us like the good little witch's familiar that she was. "For once, we finally have a bunch of food since you caught that giant bird, but with all these extra mouths to feed, I'm going to end up back on that seaweed diet again!"
"And having them pay rent is only fair, after all." I said, causing everyone, including Vivi, Nichi, Carue, and Lucian, to look at me, wandering what I was talking about. "Vivi is only on the ship because we were promised an award in Arabasta," I pointed out, causing the blue-haired princess to hang her head, having completely forgotten all about that little fact. "And Nichi and Lucian are covered under that payment because they both said that they want to become her body guards or work for her in some other way, remember?"
"Yeah, come to think of it, they did say that, didn't they." Zoro said, thinking about it for a minute.
Actually, they hadn't said those exact words, it was just something that all of us had an understanding about. They had risked their lives to protect her from Mr. 5 and his partner, and now they wanted to make sure she was OK, and they were out of work. So it only mad sense for them to become her personal body guards or something, which incidentally meant that we had to work with and protect them as well, putting them under the same payment that Vivi was under, even if I already knew we wouldn't be getting it.
"You mean they aren't part of your crew either?" Ning, the fishwoman, said, looking at us in surprise.
"Nope. We're just helping them get home, and protecting them until we get them there." I explained, turning back to Nami and watching as she turning her attention to Luffy, who wasn't completely paying attention to a thing we were saying.
"So letting them stay without having to pay rent wouldn't exactly be right when Vivi, Nichi, Carue, and Lucian under a contract, now would it?" she asked him, knowing that he would just wave her question off because he wasn't even really paying attention.
And that's exactly what he did.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Rent, sure thing." He said, to busy thinking about food to actually listen to anything we were saying.
Turning our attentions back to the others, me and Nami started working out just how much they would be paying us. Oddly enough, they were all heading the same way we were anyway, so they wouldn't be with us for that long, and they only had to pay fifty thousand beli a parson per day, which was Nami's idea, not mine. They also had to pay for the damages that were caused to the ship because of them, though we didn't make them pay that much for it since they did actually help fix the damages, so they ended up paying only five hundred thousand beli for it, and oddly enough, that wasn't that big of a deal.
As we were only three days away from Arabasta kingdom, that meant that they ended up owing us one million and one hundred thousand beli all together, which they payed up front. When we divided it all up among the crew members, our pull turned out to be pretty good. Everyone got one hundred thousand beli, with me and Nami both getting two hundred thousand beli instead since we were the ones to broker the deal.
When Nami realized that Lil and Choco both still got a cut, she was a little pissed because I basically got all the money that they got, which meant that I got a full four hundred thousand all together.
Not bad for a single day's hall, is it?
When everyone was done paying, or done receiving their money, everyone went up to the kitchen to eat and figure out what we were going to do about the sleeping arrangements and the pillow and cover issue. It wasn't until Zoro finally asked something that any real decision was made.
"Hey, don't you have some stuff in that froggy bag of yours that we can use?" He asked, causing Nami, Luffy, Lil, and I to all smack our heads at our stupidity.
I still had the covers and pillows that I stole from the marine base.
"Oh yeah! I completely forgot about that!" Nami exclaimed, turning her head to glare at me. "Well? What are you waiting for? Start looking for them already!"
Grabbing my froggy bag and setting it on the table, I reached in with my right arm and started looking around, surprising the four Teddy-bear pirates.
"You mean that thing can store anything like the boss's body?!" Nicky exclaimed in surprise, causing the rest of us to look at her in surprise.
"Like the boss's body?" I asked in surprise, sitting up and pulling my arm out of the froggy bag to look over at Orso curiously.
"Yes, my body can store anything, it's a long story, but basically, I used to be a marine scientist, I was experimenting with something, and I help develop the technology that lets an inanimate object 'eat' a devil fruit. I wound up getting stuck in this body, though I won't trouble you with the story, but basically this stuffed animal body of mine can hold anything I want to put into it." Orso explained, causing everyone to blink at him stupidly for several minutes while our brains tried to process the information he had just given to us.
"OBJECTS CAN EAT DEVIL FRUITS?!" everyone exclaimed, including me.
I had completely forgotten that was even possible. I hadn't seen that part in the anime in so long that I had actually completely forgotten that there were things that had eaten devil fruits, like the damn grenade-launcher dog that Mr. 4 has.
"Oh yeah, now I remember." I said, getting everyone's attention once again. "Mr. 4 has a gun that ate the dog devil fruit. Every time it sneezes, it shoots grenades out of it's mouth."
"What?! You mean one of those crazy Baroque Works agents has a Dog that's also a Grenade Launcher?!" Usopp exclaimed, which just proved that he hadn't actually heard what I had said.
"No, he has a Grenade Launcher that is also a dog, not the other way around. It was a Grenade Launcher first, then they did something to it with a devil fruit and it grew a dog's head, legs, paws, and tail." I explained causing everyone to blink at me for a few seconds.
Deciding it was probably better to just let them talk it over amongst themselves, I turned back to the froggy bag, which apparently turned out to be more interesting then things that could eat devil fruits because everyone started watching me dig through it.
"Come on, come on, I know they're in here somewhere." I granted, reaching in as far as I could, smiling when I finally felt something round. "Huh, what's this?" I said, pulling the thing out, only to find that it was a complete skeleton, which scared the hell out of everyone except me as I had dealt with the froggy bag enough to know that anything could be in it. "Ah, Uncle Lester, so that's where you went?" I said lazily before shoving it back into the froggy bag, scaring the shit out of everyone.
"Skeleton!" Usopp shouted in horror when he saw it, falling back out of his seat and onto the floor.
Ten minutes later, when I finally managed to find all of the covers an pillows, which everyone instantly made me wash before they would even touch them.
Once everything was settled and everyone finished eating, everyone fixed up the men's room a bit, which ended up costing me one of my fishing nets, which was strung up and used as hammocks for the guys.
In the end, everyone had a hammock to sleeping, except for Nami, Choco, and Carue as Nami had a bed, and the two bird-brains had Choco's nest. Once everyone was ready for bed, we all went to sleep, with me staying up like always to take first watch.
Taking my Journal, I headed up to the crows nest, which took only a single jump. Even though I had had the cat abilities for a long time now, I still wasn't used to them. Being able to jump so high, being able to hear so much better then everyone else, and being able to perform acrobatic moves... I could do them all for the rest of my life, and I would still never be used to doing them. Having always been a clouts back home, being so acrobatic was just...
Weird.
Sitting down in the crows-nest, I opened up my journal, and started looking over everything I had written in it. There were so many entries in it, though still not as many as I wished. If I could, I would go back in time and write every single second of every single day in it, though there was no way that it all would actually fit in it. There were just so many things that I wished I would have written down.
We were only three days away from Arabasta and the dangerous crocodile. Actually, it was really just two days because the first one was already pretty much over. The sun had already set and it was getting pretty dark, which meant that it had to be well past eight or nine o'clock. That meant that the time we had before the big battle started was already slowly slipping away, and once we get to Arabasta, there's no telling what could happen. Even though we weren't supposed to run into him, we had already met Mr. 10, which meant that we could end up meeting any of the other Baroque Work agents as well.
Or even an enemy that none of us had even heard of. There was just to much that was going on, and the danger level was already shooting out of control. At the rate things was going, we were definitely going to be dealing with a lot more danger then what the anime had shown, and I wasn't sure I could handle that. Mr. 10 alone had almost killed everyone by destroying the ship, what did that say about our enemies?
Sighing heavily, I looked over everything I had written in the journal, wanting to review my 'To Do List'.
In the end, I filled out the last page of the journal with a new updated version of the list.
The diaries of Kaede Tsuda Burnett, day 57 (Part 2)
Well, technically it's still only Day 57, but I decide to write this as a new entry since it's just a list of things to do.
To do list:
1) Make Salt Pellets to fight the zombies with.
2) Finish building the Fubuki Yama so that we wont have to see Kokoro naked.
3) Stop slavery in the archipelagos place.
4) Steal from the some of the ships in the port at Arabasta (only the Baroque works ships)
5) check out the ruins in Arabasta, if we manage to still see it.
6)Decide between flying to the castle, or just walking.
7) Find the rest of the magic books in the froggy bag
8) Figure out how to get the Merry up to Skypiea without the knock-up-stream so it doesn't get damaged even more then it already is.
9) Figure out some way to attack Inaru in skypiea without getting electrocuted.
10) Steal Inaru's gold and Dials.
11) get that giant thing of gold that the skypians tried to give to the crew in the anime.
Well, that's all, that's all the room there is on the page. I'll buy another journal the moment we come to a town that sells them.
Signed, The diaries of a Mad Cat Woman.
Sighing heavily, I closed my journal and put it away in the froggy bag, wandering if I would really be able to do any of the things that I had put on the list. With all the danger we were facing, I seriously doubted it. If I managed to do any of it, it would probably only be the stealing from the Baroque Works ships thing.
For the rest of my watch, I simply sat there, staring out at the ocean around the ship, wandering if anything was ever going to happen. When Zoro finally came out to relieve me so that I could go to sleep, it was almost four or five in the morning, like always, but I didn't mind. I had always been a night owl, and I had been taking the first shift since we had gotten the Merry anyway, so it wasn't that big of a deal.
"Goodnight." I called out to him as I headed into the storage room and down the stairs to the women's room, barely getting a grunt in reply.
The next three two days passed without anything happening. The Teddy-Bear pirate were polite to everyone, and we only had to stop the nutty red-head from blowing up the ship twice, which apparently was a record low for her, according to her crew-mates at least. Apparently, her usual amount of explosions was somewhere around ten a day or something like that.
Lucky for us, she seemed to be behaving herself, for the most part.
We also ended up having to eat in a separate room as Nicky because she nearly killed us all with exploding lollipops when she saw that we were eating fish. Apparently, her hatred for fish was so strong that she couldn't even be in the same room as cooked fish without getting killed. If it wasn't for my bio-ball-seaweeds and my flying abilities, we would have all starved because of her episodes. The flying came in handy because I was able to fly around and kill some birds whenever we saw them, which gave us something other then fish to eat, which meant that she didn't have to try to kill us with exploding lollipops again.
When we finally saw the giant sea-cat and Vivi had explained what it was and that it meant that we were getting close to Arabasta, everyone got really excited. Unfortunately, that was about ten minutes ago and now we had a huge fleet of Baroque works ships closing in on us. They were coming from behind the ship and we heading straight for us, and ironically, Arabasta kingdom just appeared off in the horizon straight ahead of us. There were only two options: try to fight them, or try to out run them.
"Those must be the billions." Vivi said as the ships all started closing in on us. "They're the subordinates of the officer agents."
"And that means there are about two hundred of them, doesn't it?" Nami asked, looking out at the same thing that I was, just as an idea suddenly popped into my head.
"Hey, guys?" I called, getting everyone's attentions. "Are we going to run from them, or fight them?"
"Are you crazy?! We can't fight them!" Usopp and Lucian shouted in unison, clearly thinking that the very idea of fighting that many ships was just crazy.
"Of course we'll fight them, I'll just blow them up!" Sora said, holding up one of her newest experiments as she started muttering to herself.
"Nah, don't worry about them." Zoro said, causing Sora and Nicky to both glare at them as both of them really wanted to fight and whatever he was about to say was going to squash their chances to do just that. "They're just small fry, so we shouldn't waist our time with them."
"Exactly, if we loose sight of our true objective, that's it. Fighting them will only slow us down." Sanji added, pointing out that we were already pressed for time as it was.
If we stopped to fight every annoyance we came across, then we were going to end up being to late to save Vivi's kingdom, and we couldn't let that happen.
"Good, well if that's the case," I said, pulling out my broom and throwing a leg over it." Zoro, hop on."
"Huh? What for?" he asked curiously, wandering what I was thinking.
"Well, those ships seem to be really fast, a lot faster then ours is with it's damaged sail." I said, grinning at him evilly. "So I was thinking about going over there and borrowing a few of theirs, think you can help me ask for one?"
everyone instantly understood what I was saying. I needed Zoro to cut their sails off so that it would slow them down, and I would bag one or two of them to replace ours, which meant that Usopp would have to get the paint read so that we could paint over the Baroque Works sign that was on it, but he could do that on the ship, so he was staying behind.
"Sure, I think I can help with that." The swordsman said, hopping onto the back of my broom and getting his swords ready for the job at hand. "Let's go."
As we flew off towards the Baroque works ships we both heard Nicky, Sora, Luffy, and Sanji shouting at us angrily. Luffy, Nicky, and Sora all wanted to fight and weren't to happy about being left behind by us, but Sanji was just angry at Zoro for going on a flight alone with me. Apparently he thought that we were going on some romantic get away and was telling Zoro that he would kill him if he did anything to me.
One of these days I was really going to have to kill that blond moron....
Once we were close enough to the Baroque Works ships, they started firing on us, trying to blow us out of the sky. Some of them seemed a little surprised at seeing two people flying on a broomstick, but most of them got over it when they realized that we were head straight for them. Luckily, their aiming wasn't nearly as good as my ability to zigzag on my new and improved feathered broom, which handled a lot better then my old one. I was able to dodge all their cannonballs without a problem, and when we were finally close enough for Zoro to start cutting their sails off, he instantly went to work with his swords.
"What are they doing?!" One of the Baroque Works agents shouted in horror as their sail was sliced away and stuffed into my froggy bag, causing their ship to slowly loose momentum and slow down now that the air wasn't powering it anymore.
One we were finished with one ship, we quickly moved over to the next one and took it. When we had three sails in the froggy bag, I just started flying by the other ships, letting Zoro slice their sails up, no longer needing to keep them in one piece as we already had all the sails we needed. When we finished with the sails, I quickly dive-bombed a few of the ships, using my froggy bag to scoop up a few of the cannons and cannonballs, as well as a few crates and barrels that were on the decks, though I wasn't sure what was in them.
By the time we got back to the Merry, Arabasta wasn't that far off in the distance anymore. We were now so close to it that it was only going to take us another hour or so to actually make landfall. When we finally made it to the Arabasta kingdom docks, the Teddy-bear pirate crew said their goodbyes and headed over to another ship, which they promptly stole and sailed off with.
"Yep, didn't have to be a psychic to see that coming." I said while Nami nodded in agreement.
The moment they were out of site, I turned to everyone else and spoke up.
"I have a treasure chest I stole from Mr. 10." I said, causing all of them to stair at me in shock. "I didn't say anything about it because I didn't want those guys to know, like I said before, I have no idea if we can really trust them." I continued, kneeling down and pulling the chest out of my froggy bag, hoping that there was something good inside. "And I haven't looked inside yet, so I don't know what's in it, but it's not exactly light, so it has to be full of something."
Waiting for the Teddy-Bear pirates to leave had nearly killed me. The chest was incredibly heavy, which meant that it definitely wasn't empty. I couldn't chance opening it while they were on the ship, because they might have scene it, and that could have been really, really bad.
"Well, don't just stand there! Open it already!" Nami exclaimed, suddenly forgiving me for getting the largest cut of the payment we received from the Teddy-bear pirates.
Apparently, finding a treasure chest is the best way to get her to get over anything.
"Yeah, come on! Open it already!" Luffy said as the others all gathered around, wanting to see what was inside it as well.
Grabbing the top of the chest, I opened it. The instant we saw what was inside, all of our jaws dropped.
It was gold.
Lots and lots of gold.
"We're rich!" Nami exclaimed happily, grabbing a ruby necklace and putting it on, snuggling it slightly as she did so.
While she grabbed the ruby necklace, I grabbed a set of diamond crested feather earrings and put them on, already falling in love with them.
If she ever wanted to try them on, she could do it over my dead body.
My precious!
Everyone just sat there for a few minute, marveling at the sight of the treasure. There was just so much of it. Even if Vivi couldn't actually pay us for protecting her, this treasure more then made up for it. I wasn't as good as Nami was when it came to knowing how much treasure was worth, but I was willing to bet it was at least a few million beli.
"Nami, analyze." I said, wanting to know just how much it was actually worth.
Again, I knew it was a few million beli, but beyond that, I had no idea...
"Let's see..." She said, looking it all over calculatingly, canalizing every single piece before she came to a decision. "I think it's worth about... seven million beli" She finally said, causing me to fall over in surprise with some droll oozing out of the sides of my mouth.
That's a whole lot of beli.
It took us almost an hour and a half to finally stop drooling over all the gold and treasure, which we almost managed to do when we divided the beli up evenly, which thoroughly pissed Nami off once again when she realized that Choco and Lil both got a cut. Since they were actual members of the crew and had actual jobs and positions, and were not just pets, that meant that they got payed just like the rest of us. She only managed to calm down when I told her she could have Choco's share, just this once, which meant that we both got 1,555,554 beli in the end from the treasure.
Pretty nice, isn't it?
When you add that to the money I already had from the teddy-bear pirates payment, it comes out to 1,955,554 beli, which is just awesome.
When we finally finished devising everything up, we put blue X's on our arms and rapped bandages around them, which was Zoro's plan, just like in the anime. When we were finished marking our arms, all thirteen of us, which included the animals, headed into town, which was called Nanohana.
The moment we entered the town, something really freaky happened. An incredibly muscular man with huge bull horns, two giant dark brown spots, and a cow tail ran right past us, trying to get away from the mad dessert farmers and their wives that were chasing him.
"Stop trying to milk me, damn it!"
Well... there's something you don't see every day...
The End.
Yep, that's the end of the first book, the second book is already being written (I have started writing it, I'm about half way through writing the first chapter) anyway, tell me the pairings you want, when you want them, and everything else and I might write it faster. :D
Oh, and how do you like the random ending? I thought it worked perfectly...
The more people review, the faster I will update.