A day passed since the brothers left Pallet Village and they have been travelling through the forest not really carrying on their next destination just as long as they get to travel is fine with them. Unknown to the brothers however is that they are heading southwest towards Elm village, a small village just a few miles a way from the sea where crops and livestock are sold to a near by tourist attraction the Akane Resort, this will be their home for a couple of months. While the brothers are heading towards the village two miles away from them a nine year old girl named Ellie Vine was with her pet pig, Mr. Pots, looking for truffles. Ellie has black shoulder length hair, piercing blue eye, and a spray of freckles on her face, Ellie was wearing a light blue shirt with grey pants, and black sandals.
"C'mon Mr. Pots sniff out those truffles." Said Ellie
Her pet pig, which wore a top hat and a bowtie for some reason, oinked and sniffed around the bases of some trees until he finally found what Ellie was looking for. Ellie walked over and scooted Mr. Pots to the side and dug out the fungi and placed it on her basket that she carried, Ellie noticed that Mr. Pots was staring at her giving her a pig version of puppy dog eyes, those big brown eyes met Ellie's blue and melted her heart.
"Fine her take a piece." Said Ellie ripping out a piece of the truffle and tossed it in the air, Mr. Pots leaped and opened it mouth eating up the piece of truffle.
"But no more your getting to big, and poppa would want to eat you." Surprisingly the pig nodded and oinked, "Ok c'mon we gotta find more of these."
The pair continued to walk and collect truffles for the next hour almost filling the basket, in that hour the two groups were pretty much right next to each other the only thing separating them was a set of trees and bushes. Mr. Pots smelled a truffle near by and walked towards it and the brothers, when Mr. Pots arrived Luffy was the first one to notice him and immediately had droll running down his mouth, Sabo and Ace looked at Luffy and then at Mr. Pots.
"Well I guess we found a snack." Said Ace
"I don't know, that doesn't look like a normal pig I mean look what it's wearing."
"Maybe it's a fancy pig." Said Luffy who somehow had a fork and knife
Mr. Pots didn't pay attention to the three brothers as he began to dig up the truffle he smelled earlier. The brothers looked at the pig in bewilderment; it was a bit strange for a pig to wear a top hat and a bowtie and to just randomly dig around a tree base. And that's when Ellie came walking from the same direction her pet pig came from, the brothers looked at the girl.
"Did you find anything Mr. Pots?" asked the girl ignoring the boys
"Mr. Pots?" repeated Ace
"Must be her pet." Answered Sabo
Luffy walked up to Ellie and stare at the girl who was crouching down to Mr. Pots
"Hmm who are you? You know its really creepy to stare at a girl." Said Ellie
Luffy smiled.
"My name is Luffy and those are my brothers Ace and Sabo, what's your name?"
"Uh my name is Ellie and this is Mr. Pots." Introduced Ellie, Ace and Sabo stood by Luffy
"So that pig is yours, good thing you came or Luffy would've eaten it whole." Said Ace
"Yeah he's actually a really special pig." Said Ellie digging up and then holding a truffle, "See this, these are truffles Mr. Pots here can sniff them out."
"What are they used for?" asked Sabo
"Are they food?" asked Luffy
"Is food all you think about Luffy?" asked Ace
"Actually yes they are food." Said Ellie surprising Ace putting a smile on Luffy and Sabo, "They're used as ingredients, toppings or you can make desserts out of them."
"So you collect them?" asked Sabo
"Uh-huh, and then we give them to momma and she sells them and sometimes she keeps a few and makes us yummy food." Responded Ellie
"Really ca we come too?" asked Luffy
"Hey Luffy don't be rude you can't just invite yourself." Said Ace
"But I invited all of us." Responded Luffy
"Sure, are your parents going to be ok with it?" asked Ellie
"Uh we don't actually have parents." Said Sabo
"Really, but where do you live? Aren't you lonely?" asked Ellie
"We actually travel and go where every where so I guess you can say that we live everywhere. And we have each other so we are never lonely." Responded Ace
"Yup." Said Sabo and Luffy smiled and Nodded
"Really wow don't you ever get scared?" asked Ellie
"Nope." Said Luffy
"…Would you like to come back to my village it's about an hour away and I'm sure momma and poppa wouldn't mind? I mean if you want."
The three brothers looked at each other having a silent conversation and after a few seconds they nodded at each other.
"Sure, we'd like that." said Sabo
"It beat sleeping in the forest." Said Ace
"And we get to eat homemade food." Said Luffy
"Yeah that wouldn't be so bad either." Replied Sabo
"yeah." Said Ace
"Great! Your going to love Elm Village it might be small but the people are really nice." Ellie said walking towards her home with Mr. Pots by her side
The group of children and the pig walked for an hour and as they walked they talked and got to know about each other, Ellie learned that the boys were actually brothers and they've been traveling for a short time and before that they lived at Mt. Hakobe and before that they lived in the East Forest. Ellie was amazed about their stories of how they would hunt for their own food, how they would go to the near by towns and scam some of the restaurants into giving them food. The brothers described their fights against some of the monsters of the forest or some of the wizards that got close to their hideout in the forest, just incase they were after the brothers. Ellie asked them to show them their 'magic' which they did. Growing up in a small village Ellie wasn't used to seeing wizards and the amazing things that they could do and the places they would go, Ellie would sometimes imagine herself as a traveling wizard in a famous guild traveling the country and preforming amazing deeds and seeing breathtaking landscapes. Although in her imagination Mr. Pots was always with her, and her magic would always change from day to day every time she would picture herself using magic.
Ellie on the other hand told the brothers about her town and how they are a farming town and how they sell to the Akane Resort so although their village might be small it has a good amount of money. Ellie also went on to tell the brothers of her home how her poppa raises cows and chickens and that sometime she helps him out by feeding them, Ellie also told them how her momma is an amazing cook and can make the most amazing meals so she decided to open a restaurant in the village which everyone goes to.
The group reached the village and walked inside, the village was small but that was because the areas around it was used to farm and raise livestock from what the boys could see the village only had at least a population of over a hundred. Ellie went and introduced everyone to the brothers, from Mr. and Mrs. Rose who ran the tool shop to Mr. Bell who was the Mayor; she introduced them to Mr. Yohan who was her neighbor and farmed carrots and corn and to Mss. Henry who was the doctor of the village. Everyone did seem rather friendly to the brothers they even offered them food or a place to stay, Luffy chose the food. And Finally Ellie introduced the brothers to her parents, her father was a big man very fit he was at least six feet tall and muscular he had light brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles Ellie's mom was a slim woman she had black hair and hazel eyes, she was beautiful woman one who could pass of as a model. Ellie told her parents on how she met the boys and told them that they could come and eat with them, and her parents agrees and even offered he boy a place to stay. So after the introductions all of them went to go eat much to Luffy's glee.
"Blah I sure ate a lot!" exclaimed Luffy
"That really was good food." Said Ace, "Although I apologize if Luffy ate too much Mr. and Mrs. Vine."
"Oh c'mon Ace we ate just as much as Luffy did." Laughed Sabo
"It's ok Ace it's good to see young people with healthy appetites." Replied Mrs. Vine
"I agree with appetites like that you boys must be hell of strong." Said Mr. Vine
"Ah I can punch a monster out cold!" yelled out Luffy
"I wouldn't be surprised if you did." Replied Mr. Vine
"Say boys I've been thinking and you don't have to say yes but would you like to stay with us?" asked Mrs. Vine
"I think that's a great idea please say yes!" said Ellie
"I wouldn't mind extra hands around the ranch." Chimed in Mr. Vine
"I don't know, can we think about it?" asked Ace
"Please say yes please please." Said Ellie
"No Ellie don't force them, sure take your time." Said Mr. Vine
The brothers excused themselves from the table, and walked towards the living room.
"What do you think?" asked Sabo
"I say yes." Said Luffy
"You only want for Ellie's mom to feed you." Replied Ace
"I say yes as well." Said Sabo
"Uh really?" asked Ace
"Yeah, just for awhile and besides doing labor is pretty good exercise as well remember when we used to chop wood with that old man." Replied Sabo
"Just for a while?" asked Ace
"Just for a while." Confirmed Sabo
"So is that a yes?" asked Luffy
"Yeah is that a yes?" asked Ellie who was listening in along with her parents
"Yeah I guess it is." Replied Ace
"Yay!" Shouted Ellie
"C'mon I'll show you to your room boys; it's a bit small I hope you don't mind." Said Mrs. Vine
"Nah its ok Mrs. Ellie's mom." Said Luffy
So the boys decided to stay for a bit in the peaceful town of Elm with their new friend Ellie and her parents and of course with Mr. Pot.
A/N short chapter I know but had a busy week and this chapter was just to introduce Ellie and her town this will be the main setting for two more chapters and we'll continue to explore the areas around Elm and develop a relationship with Ellie and the boys. Anyway as usual I give a shout out to a story/author and here's this chapter's shout out Spirit Keys and Santoryu: An Unlikely Love Story check it out if you like a ZoroxLucy story and here's a shout out to Uzumaki Sealgod check out some of his work if you haven't already