Chapter 2 –
My hand feels nice as I watch the crystal clear waters silkily slide through my fingers, dancing brightly in the sun…oh who am I kidding, I'm just trying to keep myself entertained. Both these idiots seem to be clueless in a certain field called navigation. At least I have a good excuse. As a dragon, I memorized wind currents and cloud systems to help me travel, but with me having to travel by boat, I have NO idea what I'm doing! Not to mention no one was smart enough to bring food…
"Hey look! A bird!" Sure enough as I look up, I see the figure of a bird high up.
"Should I go get it Luff?" Zoro raises an eyebrow at me, most likely from my interesting choice of nickname.
"No! I'll get it! Watch! Gomu gomu no….ROCKET!" The idiot, using the mast for leverage, launches up towards the bird! As he gets farther up, I notice something weird….the bird…it's getting bigger…
"Wait a minute….LUFFY!" Both me and Zoro watch as the idiot's head gets stuck in the giant bird's beak!
"THAT IDIOT!" Both me and Zoro yell at the same time. Zoro grabs the oars, paddling furiously while I rush to the font of the boat, keeping my eyes on our idiot of a captain. Suddenly, I see three dots up ahead! People!
"ZORO! WE GOT SOME PEOPLE NEEDING A RIDE!" Zoro grunts, looking down at the three people coming into view.
"YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO JUMP ON! I'M NOT STOPPING!" The three men thump onto the boat, I ignore them, trying to focus on our retarded idiot flying in the sky. Then, I feel a gun nub against the back of my head…
"Zoro, I need to keep an eye on Luffy, knock them out." I hear screams in the background, and a few lurches and pauses in the paddling…damn it! He's going too fast! I can't see him anymore, even with my dragon eyes! Damn it! I finally look behind me, to see the three losers paddling for us, I shift behind them to the back of the boat, where Zoro sits, looking extremely pissed. I sit to his right, looking at the pirates. I don't really take it what they look like, I need to focus on the direction Luffy went off to.
"You lose the idiot?" I give a nod. He grunts, obviously too pissed to make a big fit out of it.
"Captain will have you heads!"
"Yeah! Captain Buggy will blow you to pieces!" The pirates keep whining about their 'Captain Buggy'…Wait a minute….BUGGY?!
"You mean Buggy, the weird-ass clown with the Devil fruit power that I can't freaking remember?"
"Yeah! You know hi-HEY! HE IS NOT A WEIRD-ASS CLOWN!" I shrug, before laying my head against the back of the boat, giving me a small view of in front of us. Suddenly, I sit up.
"Island!" Zoro follows me, as we dash up to the front of the boat. I watch the outline of the island, while Zoro squints.
"You sure Lizard?"
"Dragon vision marimo, dragon vision." He snorts, and we are enveloped in a comfortable silence. I take the time to focus on Zoro. His earrings are gold tears…that symbol…I should ask him later…I turn back towards the island, trying to remember the devil fruit of Buggy….Shanks said he accidentally made him swallow it, though he felt no regret because he WAS stealing it, and was stupid enough to put it in his mouth. They were going to cut it up for their friend when he stole it…cut. Slicing.
"That's it!" Zoro looks, startled at me.
"What?"
"Buggy's devil fruit! It's the chop-chop fruit! He can't be sliced by swords or knives!" Zoro looks surprised, then scowls deeply.
The town is huge, but not a sound comes from it. I can hear barely anything, but nothing to give off significant human life. That is, till I hear mumbling more into town. I gesture to Zoro to follow me, before heading off. I listen around, there seems to be a faint trace of gunpowder in the air, as it's itching my nose. I also hear that idiot walking to the right! I let out a huff, before turning to the clueless swordsman and grabbing his collar, jumping onto the rooftops.
As he always said: "Most swordsmen put their focus so much into their swords, they lose focus on where they're going. Even Mihawk gets lost on multiple occasions, though he often just uses an excuse of boredom. So, if a swordsman you meet gets lost easily, they definitely have potential." I had ignored the rest of the old man's rant, knowing that if you only listen for the first few sentences, you can just guess the rest.
"Hey! Put me down Lizard!" I then notice that throughout my wanderings, I had taken to keeping Zoro on my shoulder, still hopping towards where I heard something.
"No, you'll just get lost again." Suddenly, a big explosion destroys multiple houses in the distance.
"…How much do you want to be that was Luffy?" We don't end of betting.
When we arrive at the scene, I notice three things.
Luffy is in a cage.
There is a cannon pointed at him.
There is a thief about to light the match.
I don't focus on much more, before I dump Zoro onto the rooftop, and leap down to sit on the cage. I focus on the people in front of me. Clown, pirate, pirate, another pirate, thief girl and a crap load of pirates! Great!
"Hey Adrian! What took you so long?" Says the moron who got stuck in a giant bird's beak I'm going to freaking strangle that….oh, I'm dazing off again.
"We had some trouble while coming here." I hear Zoro snort from his hiding spot, before he jumps down, drawing all the attention, and more than one shout of recognition. Buggy growls at us.
"I shall kill you all flashily!" Wait…that cannon still has a cannonball in it right? I could blow him up! Jumping off the cage, I run towards the cannon. Buggy jumps at me, so I uppercut him right into two of his crew mates. Grabbing the rim of the cannon, I start to lift it up. It's not that heavy, but it takes a little while, as the cannon's quite old and rusty, to turn it to face the crew.
"Thief girl! Pass me the matches!" I hear a slight whistle in the wind and catch the matches, striking it up to light the cannon. Buggy and his crew stare at me with wide eyes.
"Goodbye Buggy, oh, Shanks can't wait to see you again!" His eyes squint comically and I laugh, before quickly covering my ears to the blow of the cannon. Sadly, I was actually straddling the cannon, so my thighs vibrated harshly, and were pretty sore by the end of it. Argh…sore thighs…nooo…so, with them out of the way, now we need to find out how to get this idiot out.
Oh no…
Sorry! I have to end this now! I want to send a chapter out soon, and I don't want this to get too long, so I decided to make this into a few parts! I know I'm not amazing at writing, but I hope to get better in the best way, this obviously!
So, hope you like it!
From: S.W.K.