Fun

Characters: Law, Penguin, Shachi, Heart Pirates. Rating: K. Warnings: None

"We're not here to have fun," Law reminded his crew when they landed on Sabaody Archipelago, already realising that they were eyeing up the amusement park and determined to veto it before anything got out of hand. Left to run wild, they could and would spend all day jumping on the rides as if they were at least ten years younger. Maybe twenty.

"We're not," Shachi agreed, causing Law to look at him suspiciously. Penguin or Bepo he might expect an agreement from, but not Shachi. Especially not with the gleam he could see even though the ginger's shades. "But that doesn't mean we can't have some along the way." To his credit, he didn't lead the crew away immediately, waiting for Law's sigh of defeat before they all tore off – all of them, including Penguin and Bepo, the traitors – towards the relevant grove, leaving their captain in their dust.

He supposed getting all that childish energy out of their systems before getting to the serious mission was probably a good idea, readjusting his grip on Kikoku and following along, careful to keep an eye out for the other Supernovas. Hopefully none of the others had children masquerading as adults for a crew, and would therefore stay in the lawless zones, well away from the amusement park his own crew were currently terrorising.

"Took you long enough," Penguin told him when he finally caught up with the older man, leaning casually against a wall as he watched Shachi dragging Ikkaku onto a roller coaster. On second glance, it looked like it might actually be the other way around… yes, Shachi was definitely starting to look a similar shade of green to his hat as he took in what ride, exactly, he was being coerced onto. Penguin passed him a box of popcorn, which Law took and began to eat as he looked around to locate the rest of his crew.

Bepo was curled up in an ice cream parlour, gorging himself on as much of the dessert as he could presumably afford – Law would not be helping him pay for all of that, especially as the mink was probably going to throw it all back up the moment he stepped onto a ride. Law would quite like to get off the island without his crew destroying his reputation as one of the Supernovas, thank you very much. Perhaps he should have insisted they went out without their boiler suits on, although whether they'd have obeyed…

His crew were very proud of their flag, he'd noticed.

"They'll calm down soon," Penguin observed, stealing some of the popcorn to chew on as he watched Shachi finally escape Ikkaku at the last second, leaving her to brave the ride alone. Clione clapped him on the back in congratulations before scarpering as Ikkaku turned her attention to him, and Shachi stumbled back over to join Penguin and Law, seeing the popcorn and swiping a handful.

"That woman is a demon," he declared, chewing with his mouth open. Law frowned at him and he hastily swallowed. "Wasn't once enough?" So Shachi had already been subjected to the ride before Law had caught up, had he?

"I believe you were the one to imply coming here would be a good idea," he pointed out. Shachi looked totally unrepentant, gesturing to the scene before them. Familiar beige boiler suits sprinkled the area as the rest of the crew explored the park, although Law noticed they were slowly gravitating back towards him.

"Do you ever plan on coming back?" the ginger asked, and Law had to admit it wasn't something he'd considered. Doflamingo was the other side of the Red Line, in the New World. There was no point looking backwards; he'd glean all the information he could, then move on.

"If we don't unwind now, when will we?" Ikkaku asked, done with her ride and stealing her own handful of popcorn from the container Law held. He glanced down to notice it was almost empty, yet he'd only had a mouthful. Thieving crew.

"Come on, captain," Bepo whined, reaching his own paw towards the popcorn. Law moved it away – he'd seen how much ice cream the mink had consumed and was in no hurry to provoke the illness that was looming. "You need to relax, too."

The rest of the crew made agreeing noises, bringing his attention to the fact that they'd all gathered around him. Law looked at them, and his now-empty popcorn – which one had stolen the last handful, dammit – before looking at the park again. It looked busy, full of things he would never touch. Hadn't touched since he was a kid being dragged to festivals. The rides looked horrendous and the food was just screaming out for cases of food poisoning later. No, Law didn't think any of that was a good idea at all.

He looked at the hopeful faces of his crew again and sighed. What the hell. Once wouldn't kill him. Probably.

"Which would you suggest?" he asked, only for his crew to cheer and grab his arms, dragging him over to the thick of it. The empty popcorn container fell to the floor, only to be trampled by the stampede of Heart Pirates.

No, they weren't here for fun, Law mused as he was manhandled onto some ridiculous ride, most of his crew surrounding him. But maybe there wasn't any harm in having some anyway.

I thought I should probably throw in something light-hearted again, after the last two. I refuse to believe the Straw Hats were the only pirates to investigate the park when there's so much fun to be had!

Thanks for reading!
Tsari