Day 19
I don't remember what happened while I was adrift on the sea, but it seems I've been rescued.
Fate just seems to enjoy screwing with me.
I expected to die...I hoped to die, but instead I was rescued.
I was drifting on the ocean on a very large piece of wood that had once been the door to Captain Jones's cabin and I passed out. I don't know for how long.
Anyway, when I woke up, I found myself in the brig of a ship. There was this guy, the ship doctor who was attending to me. He's massive, about a head taller than me. What stood out while he was treating me was this huge warhammer strapped to his back. Looked as though it was made of stone, not that I care.
Anyway, when I woke up, the guy told me to get on the deck to see the ship captain.
The ship isn't very big, not even half Willy's size. The crew's pretty small too. They were all on deck, as though they've been expecting me. I looked around and asked for the ship captain.
A man dressed in a simple grey shirt with a bandanna around his head answered. He's as big as the ship doctor and had a broadsword strapped to his back. What unnerved me though, was that this guy was obviously as old as Goji had been, but age didn't seem to bother him. He stood as tall as his crewmates. Another thing about this was this braided grey beard that reached down his chest.
"Well, good to see you awake, son," he said, grinning broadly.
"Thanks for rescuing me," I answered, though it was just empty words.
The old man laughed and it's a very strange laugh.
"Haiirorororororo! No need to thank me, child," boomed the captain. "Children shouldn't be dying until they're as old and brittle as I am! What's your name?"
I told him.
"Edward Newgate, eh?" he said. "Well boy, we're in South Blue now and are on our way to..."
I was surprised, we were in South Blue? When I was last conscious we had been in Grand Line. I asked him about that.
"Well, you've been out for a week," the captain said. "You really got your ass kicked and you were barely alive when we found you. We just crossed the Calm Belt into South Blue..."
The Calm Belt? The nesting ground of the Sea Kings? I asked him how he managed to achieve that.
He seemed mildly amused by my surprise.
"We fought our way through, of course," he answered as though that was sanest thing to do.
"Just who the hell are you guys?" I asked, stunned.
The old man grinned.
"Well, some people know me as Arden Frank," he said. "But most people call me Greybeard. We're the Greybeard Pirates."
I reeled at his answer. I'm on the ship of the most powerful pirate to ever sail the seas. Now that I look back at that moment, the grey beard of his should've given away his identity. And the people on the ship, his crew, they were pretty infamous themselves.
The first-mate, Lat the Dark Puppeteer. He was sitting on this huge wooden monster that must have been his weapon. He was a small man with dark skin and a mischievous smile on his face. But even though he looks weak, he's not. His bounty is as high as that of a Shichibukai though I don't know the exact figure.
The ship doctor, it turns out, was none other than Grunt the Hammer. The hammer that he carries around must've weighed roughly a tonne yet he wasn't even bothered by its weight. His face was as still as stone and he moved about slowly, though not from the weight of the hammer, it seemed to me it was because he was too lazy to move quickly.
There were others, but my hand is a little tired from all this writing.
Anyway, the whole point is that I've been rescued by one the most feared pirate crew who sailed through the Calm Belt as though it was nothing.
Why do these things happen to me?
