To anyone who is reading this, I found out something interesting~~! I was watching a pirates documentary (Because I supposedly have a pirate ancestor, and I was curious ) and it was talking about Black Beard. It said his real name was Edward Teach who at 6 feet something was an intimidating giant of a man. Hope you enjoyed the little history fact, on with the show!
Chapter 3: Shedding some light
"How can that be humanly possible?"
"How can he be human?"
"It's like a ship wreck, you want to look away, but all you can do is stare…"
"It's, Interesting, to say the least."
Zoro was simply speechless.
The sight of the stray they had took in, eating, was a sight worth a thousand words and expressions. It looked like a black hole eating, or something of the sort. "Whew! I don't remember the last time I've had something that good!"
Now the blond man was moving forward, small smile picking at his lips. After all, he was the cook. He was wearing a tight purple polo shirt and black pants and shoes. He had sunny blond hair, with one lock covering the left side of his face. His one visible eye was dark blue, and his visible eyebrow had a curl at the end.
"Now that your done eating, how about this? We tell you something about ourselves, and you answer us something in return."
"Nnn, yeah. Sounds good." The boy said, with a slight nod of the head, only to be reminded movements like that still didn't agree with him. "Right, names first then, I'm Sanji."
"Nami." Said a girl with orange hair. She had light brown eyes, and was wearing a long-sleeve yellow shirt with a beli and mikan on the front, brown khakis that reached the knees, and blue high-heel sandal shoes.
"I'm the great capta-" before the teen with the long nose could finish, however, the orange haired girl hit him on the head, "Not now." The redhead said a bit irritably
"I'm Usopp." The teen said sullenly. He was now wearing a loose dark blue shirt that went past the elbows and brown pants that were past the knees.
"I'm Robin" Said the raven haired woman. She had on the same thing from before.
"Roronao Zoro." Said the swordsman. He was now wearing black jeans, and an old looking light gray shirt with dark green letters that spelled "Bugger off" on the front.
The teen smiled a little towards the man, thinking his cool new friend even had a cool name. "-Urn."
"Eh?"
"You turn." Zoro said, raising his eyebrow slightly.
"Oh! I'm Monkey D. Luffy! Nice to meet cha!"
Anyone who hadn't raised any eyebrows now had them about to disappear into their hairline. "Uh, right. Nice name, kid. How 'bout ages now, eh? I'm 18." The ages went in the same order as the names:
"17." The long nosed boy was about to reply when, "Don't lie, Usopp."
"Ah, you're no fun… I'm 16."
"I'm 26."
"18." The green haired man said, a slight bored tone in his voice.
"Nah, I'm 16." Luffy said, with an after thought of 'I think...'
"Now, let's see, what else is there to ask?" The blond man wondered aloud. "How about this Sanji-kun? I'm a navigator. I can detect a storm before it starts and lead a ship from this island chain to the next with minimal effort." The redhead said, and a bit boastful too. "Not to mention bleed you dry of your money and manipulate you like a witch."
"Shut up, Marimo, you have no right to insult Nami-swan!"
"Oh. Bite me, Dartboard brow."
As the fight continued from name calling to swearing and then a full blown fist fight. The boy just watched with a raised eyebrow and then just started laughing.
"ENOUGH!" Nami shouted as she smacked both men on the head, earning a "Mellorine!" and grunt of pain from the other. "Uh, right then…" The long nosed boy started a bit unsure, then realizing the navigator was to busy screeching at the two lying on the floor to do anything else, started again with, "I'm Captain Usopp, Great warrior of the sea! I've been known to battle sea kings bigger than a battleship and fend of any bandits foolish enough to try and raid the town!"
As the liar went on, Luffy began to lose interest, in favor of watching the swordsman, who for some reason seemed to fascinate the teen. And started slowly moving towards the man, who was still lying on the ground.
Not taking notice to the abrupt cease of proud bantering and commencing of more screeching. He started to poke the man in the forehead, just for the hell of it. As he was about to poke the head for the 9th time, a hand came up and grabbed his wrist in a vice grip. "That's enough poking, thank you very much." The swordsman said with a snarl "Heheh, Right!" the boy said, with a laugh. While the man raised an eyebrow, Robin began walking over. "I'll just tell you about us last three, then, shall I? I'm an archaeologist. I study ancient ruins and history." She elaborated upon seeing the boy give her a confused look. "Cook-san is, obviously, the cook, and,"
"I'll take it from here, thanks." Zoro said interrupting her as he got up and dusted himself off. "I'm a swordsman, I use a fighting style I formed myself called Santoryu. Meaning I use three swords."
"You use three swords!? Sugoi!" The teen exclaimed. Startled by the sudden outburst over such a simple thing. He started to come up with a reply when, "Yeah, yeah. Now what can you do?" Nami said after she had finished beating up Usopp for lying too much. "I'm not going to have someone who can't even hold their own staying in this house, no matter how short their here for." She said sternly.
Just as the teen was about to answer her, a thundering knock on the door cut him off. Then someone crashed through said door saying: "Zoro! Sanji! The Bandits you ran off last week have come back with more men than before!"
"How many are there?" Sanji asked, "Around 60!" The man replied, albeit frantically
"Dammit!" Zoro hissed quietly, "Come on Crap-cook." He said as he began moving towards the door.
"Yeah yeah, shut up. Just let me grab my coat."
After heading out the door, the two were surprised when Luffy came up beside them.
"Oi! What do you think your doing-"
"I'm helping." The teen said simply as he cut off the blond. "These aren't just any small fry kid. And you just woke up from being outside in summer wear in sub-zero weather with cuts and bruises everywhere. Now be good and go rest-"
"Don't worry! I'm strong!" He said as he interrupted the man again, turning to the two with a large grin on face. 'Little brat…' The man thought. "Che. If you're going to follow us, put this on. It'd be a pain to have to haul you out of the snow for a second time." Zoro said as he took his coat off and threw it to the boy, who put it on with much haste. It was freaking freezing out here!
Once the three reached the town, they were met with a strong sent of blood, gunpowder, and something burning. Looking around for the bandits, the finally found them beating up a flock of townspeople unfortunate enough to not have run away fast enough. Zoro was first to dive in with a shout of "Oni… GIRI!" Which sent men hurdling in all directions. Sanji was next, charging in and almost literaly, kicking their assess. Luffy, however, was taking his time, trying to find the best chance to charge in and eliminate a large number of them. And he found it, around fifteen or so men were heading to Zoro in an attempt to overwhelm him. Running towards them, the teen quickly and efficiently took them out in a series of punches, kicks, and a head butt or two.
After Sanji and Zoro and taken out most of the thugs, they just stood there and watched the spectacle unfold. The kid really was, strong, to put it bluntly. Moving in an unseen rhythm that only he could follow.
Suddenly, another bandit came out with a large club heading towards the teen. The two only had enough time to yell out a warning as the boy turned around only to have a spiked club land on his head. The two watched in silent horror as it came in contact with the skull. 'There's no way the kid could've withstood that…'
Much the same thoughts started popping up in the cook's head. Then, to much of the surprise of all who were watching, the boy lifted his head with a smirk on his face. "That won't work." Was all he said before he took hold of two of the spikes on the club. Clutching them tightly, he began to spin, and once he was spinning fast enough with club in both his hands and the bandits, he sent the two hurdling into the sky and out of sight.
Now Zoro and Sanji just stood there, now in stunned silence. The teen then turned to them and said, "You asked me what I'm good at? Well, I can fight!" he declared with a madman worthy grin on his face before he started to clean up the rest of the thugs hanging around.
Okay! There's the third chapter, hope you enjoyed!