And here is yet another chapter! Whew! I'm so glad that all these damn fight scenes have been typed up and are done with! At least for now, anyway.
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The villagers continued cheering, jumping up and down and rejoicing. Nojiko tightly hugged Sanji, who was throwing his hands up as his eyes became heart shaped. Genzo had his hat off and was shaking his head, crying happy tears in silence. Zoro was lazily sitting there, but was smirking nonetheless. Usopp was bravely smiling, nodding his head. "I knew we could do it! I never doubted us for a second!"
"Oi." Zoro deadpanned.
"That's enough celebrating!" A voice suddenly called, and everyone stopped cheering and turned to face a certain marine.
"What a lucky day it is for me...chi chi chi.." Nezumi smirked. "I'd like to thank you all for showing me a very exhilarating battle! Whether by sheer luck or not, I'd have never guessed that the fishmen would actually be defeated by a bunch of no name pirates..."
His fleet of men stood behind him, all armed with guns and other weapons.
"But thanks to you, the money that I had to hand over to Arlong as well as all the other riches in Arlong Park belong to me! Don't even bother trying to pick up your arms! I, Captain Nezumi of the sixteenth branch, shall hereby take credit for this victory! Chi chi chi!"
Zoro appeared behind Nezumi, and grabbed him by the back of his shirt. Nezumi let out a loud, girly squeak. "It ain't nice to be a wet blanket, when people are celebrating." Zoro stated darkly, and his words obviously held a deeper meaning. If Nezumi were to rain on Nami's parade, Zoro would have no qualms about killing him.
Click.
Moments later, Nezumi and his men were lying on the ground looking pretty beat. Usopp, Zoro, Sanji, and Luffy stood above them with looks of indifference.
Nezumi raised up a shaky finger. "Go ahead!" He slurred. "Lay eben one binger on me, I dare chu! I swear you won't ged away with it!"
"Geez, he's still able to talk?" Sanji tsked and rolled his eyes.
Nami came up behind Luffy, with the den den mushi still on her shoulder, and placed Luffy's hat back onto his head. They smiled at each other before Nami bent down beside Nezumi. "This." She began. "Is for shooting my beautiful sister, Nojiko, and defiling Bellemere's orange fields..." Nami pulled out her staff and swiftly swung it at him, hitting Nezumi directly in his face and sending him flying into the sea.
"Thanks Nami!" Nojiko grinned.
"He still needs more beatings.." Genzo muttered stubbornly.
"Boss!" The marines cried when Nezumi poked his head out of the water.
Nami pulled on Nezumi"s whiskers. "Go clean up after the fishmen!" She began. "And help rebuild Gosa Village! And you are to not touch any money left here in Arlong Park! That's this island's money!"
"Ow- ow!" Nezumi whimpered in pain. "Alvright I'll do what you say!"
"And one more thing!" Nami glared darkly at the marine captain, and so did Moshi. "Give me back my money!"
Nezumi pulled away from her, still treading in the water. "I will! Ugh! Listen well, you rotten pirates! Especially you, Straw Hat boy! You said your name was Luffy, correct?! And you're the captain, right? Let me just say that you are gonna get your desserts for what you did to me soon enough! I'll make you pay!" With that being said, he and his crew of marines swam away.
"...He just said you're gonna get your desserts.." Sanji muttered.
Luffy put his hands onto his hips. "How did he know that I deserve to be Pirate King?"
"Thats not what he meant, dumbass." Zoro stated, rolling his eyes.
"W-What do we do guys?!" Usopp frowns. "What happens if he really does get back at us?!"
"Hey everyone!" One of the villagers yelled. "Let's not keep this to ourselves! Let's tell the whole island that Arlong Park has been destroyed!"
Another round of cheering began as the villagers ran off to do just that, and not one of them had a frown on their face.
"To think that we would be saved by pirates.." The doctor of the village shook his head.
"You never know.." Genzo chuckled softly.
Click.
"Aahhh! This party is so much fun!" Luffy grinned, and the snail on his shoulder bobbed his head in agreement. "Even Den Den is having fun!"
"Nami called him Moshi earlier." Zoro said. "So I guess his name is Moshi."
"Moshi sounds like a good name to me." Sanji shrugged.
"Moshi? Shishishi!" Luffy grinned at the snail. "So we'll be calling you Moshi from now on!"
Moshi only swayed from side to side in happiness. He was now really apart of the crew! He had his own name and everything!
"I sure ate a lot!" Sanji grinned. "Feels nice to stuff yourself every now and then."
"Oi Sanji! Was there something on that last melon you ate just now?" Luffy asked, giving him a serious look as he held three large chunks of meat in each hand.
"What's with all that meat you're holding onto?" Zoro deadpanned.
"Yeah." Sanji lit up another cigarette. "It was a melon with raw ham called "Raw Ham Melon."
"Raw Ham Melon?" Luffy took a bite out of his meat. "Where'd you get it?"
"Not sure, since there's food put out everywhere for all the villagers. Must have picked it up from somewhere..."
"I'll go find it then!" Luffy nodded firmly, as if he was about to complete a hard task.
"Well, now that I've finished eating.." Sanji stood up and dusted himself off. "It's time to flirt with the ladies!" His eyes became heart shaped as he danced off to find some ladies to flirt with.
Luffy walked past the crowd, still searching for food, when he noticed Usopp standing on a stack of tables.
"It is I!" He yelled. "Captain Usopp! The warrior who defeated one of the fishmen! Allow me to sing you a song!"
The people in the crowd cheered, throwing up their hands and yelling for Usopp to do his song. Some even asked for his autograph.
"Raw Ham Melon...where is it?" Luffy wondered past the festival and up a hill. He blinked in confusion. "Eh? There's no food here." He saw Genzo staring at him and shrugged. "Oh well, I'll head back now."
"Wait just a minute!" Genzo sweatdropped.
"A grave?" Luffy looked past Genzo, and at the brown cross that sat on top of the ground. "Did someone die..?"
"Yes." Genzo replied. "But it was a very long time ago.."
"Right." Luffy bowed his head, and so did Moshi. "Well he or she has my deepest c...condiments? Con...conditions?"
"The word is condolences."
"Right, that."
"Hey kid." Genzo closed his eyes for a moment. "Nami said she'll join your crew again to be a pirate...it'll be a dangerous journey..." He opened his eyes and clenched his fists. "So if you ever do something to steal her smile away, I'll personally come and kill you!"
"Well, I'm really never going to-"
"Understand?!" Genzo bellowed, narrowing his eyes and shaking just a little.
"...Understood." Luffy replied, nodding his eyes solemnly.
Click.
"Oi Benn Beckman." Luffy sat beside Nojiko, holding the den den mushi up so that he could see both of their faces. "This here is Nami's older sister, Nojiko."
"Hello!" Nojiko laughed and waved at the camcorder.
"Nojiko is really nice!" Luffy grinned. "And she's really smart! And she says she's heard of you!"
"That's right." Nojiko shrugged. "Benn Beckman, legendary first mate of Red Haired Shanks. I hear that you're the smartest man in the East Blue. But if you are the smartest man, Nami is most definitely the smartest female."
"Hear that?" Luffy laughed. "My navigator could give your first mate a run for his money, Shanks!"
Nojiko giggled. "I don't know about that, Luffy. I just know that Nami is smarter than what most would think. The ocean is a vast place, so I'm sure there will be a lot of people like Nami and Benn Beckman."
"Psh." Luffy smiled his signature smile. "That doesn't matter! Nami's in the future Pirate King's crew!"
"Future Pirate King eh?" Nojiko placed a strand of her thick blue hair behind her ear. "That's what you aim for? Hmm...well I believe you can do it."
"Shishishi! Hear that Shanks? Nojiko believes me! I will become Pirate King, just you and Benn and Ace and everyone watch!"
Click.
"Guys! I just had the best idea!" Luffy looked at Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp with a wide smile. He set Moshi onto a table and placed his hands onto his hips. "We should paint Moshi's shell!"
"Why should we paint his shell?" Sanji tapped his foot impatiently, wanting to go back to flirting with the girls. "It's fine the way it is!"
Moshi's body was a very pale white, and his shell was also a pale white color. The snail had never really cared about what color his shell was, so he was surprised when Luffy suggested to paint it.
"Sanji, how can you say that?" Luffy pouted. "Moshi's shell looks so boring to me! So let's decorate it!"
"Hm, I usually could care less but maybe we should paint Moshi's shell." Zoro stated. "There are other transponder snails that have white shells, so what if we lose Moshi and can't tell which one he is because he has the same shell color as all the other snails?"
"Hey, that makes sense.." Usopp nodded. "It would be a lot easier to figure out which one is Moshi in case he does get lost..."
"So then what color should we paint him?" Sanji asked, lighting up yet another cigarette.
"Red!" Luffy stated.
"Green." Zoro yawned, crossing his arms.
"Yellow!" Usopp nodded, sticking his long nose into the air.
Sanji sweatdropped. "Way to agree on a specific color."
"I'm gonna be future Pirate King, so his shell should be red!"
"But green would be a much better color! Green would be like a mark of pride." Zoro stated, his expression serious.
"Yellow would be a mark of pride too!" Usopp argued.
"Yeah, pride for what? The long nose tribe or something?"
"Hey now." Sanji slammed his hands onto the table. "Here's how I see it. Moshi's shell has seven swirls, right? There are five of us in the crew so far. So we should paint each swirl a color that represents each of us."
"That's actually a really good idea.." Usopp nodded. "Alright! Leave it up to me!" Usopp picked up the paint brush. "Who wants to be the biggest swirl?"
"Me!" Luffy raised his hands, which still had meat in them. "Make it red!"
"Right!" Usopp dipped the paintbrush into the red paint before he painted the largest swirl on Moshi's shell red, as red as Luffy's vest. "Who wants to be second biggest?"
"That should be Zoro, since he's my first mate." Luffy declared.
"I'm surprised that you know what first mate means.." Usopp muttered dryly as he painted the second largest swirl green.
"Of course I do." Luffy picked his nose with his pinky. "I'm not stupid."
"...Nami-Swan should be next." Sanji added. "Since she was technically the third person to join..and because she's beautiful..."
Usopp sweatdropped and painted the third swirl orange, as orange as Nami"s hair. "I swear, I'm on a boat full of idiots..." He painted the swirl after Nami's yellow, since he did join the crew after her.
"And now for the love cook." Zoro stated, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Tch." Sanji rolled his eyes. "Stupid Marimo."
"What'd you call me?!"
"Done!" Usopp painted the fifth swirl blue, as Sanji's shirt. "There! Now Moshi is officially apart of the crew too!"
"Yosh!" Luffy grinned. "Good!"
"There's still two swirls that haven't been colored in though." Sanji took a long drag from his cigarette.
"I guess that means we'll be recruiting more people than." Zoro yawned.
"More people? Why, I already have 8,000 men under my fleet!" Usopp boasted, sticking his nose into the air once more.
"Oi..." Zoro, Sanji, and Luffy sweatdropped. "That's an obvious lie."
Click.
Short chapter, I know, but it's a party chapter really. So yeah. That's why I was able to get this update out so quickly. I'm proud of myself xD I didn't procrastinate!
Surprise! This is what I decided Moshi's shell should look like! He'll have the colors of each of the Straw Hats- he's apart of the crew now! And he's been officially named. He'll be on one hell of an adventure, that's for sure. I hope you guys like this little surprise.
You guys want commentary? Hmm, I hadn't planned on doing anymore commentary until Alabasta. So should I have commentary for the next chapter, or should I just get on with the rest of the story? You guys tell me.
I'm trying to get back into putting in six slides for each chapter, because for the Arlong Park arc I didn't even bother separating scenes. Also, you know how I end each chapter with "Click" right? Well, I think I should change that. "Maybe to something like "Gucha." What do you think? That is the sound that Transponder Snails make right?
Lastly, thank you guys for the many follows, favorites, and reviews. Please don't stop because yeah. Words and shit.
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