Chapter 1: Sip the Seven Seas
Logue Town, East Blue
Silk searched her mind desperately for motivation as the sun peeked over the horizon. Today she would hear countless stories of other people's adventures. Stories of their glory, their achievements, their triumphs and setbacks, she would hear about how amazing the world is and it would only serve to remind her of the tragedy that was her own life. A life of obsessing over other people's adventures and none of her own.
"I've waited a whole year for this day" Silk's mother announced cheerfully.
"I know honey, it always feels so far away and then it's gone in the blink of an eye" Silk's father replied.
Today was the most important day of the year in Logue Town, the pirate festival. Once a year thousands of people from all over the world converged on Louge Town, the birthplace of the legendary Pirate King Gol D Roger to celebrate his life. Most of the attendees were civilians who idolized pirates, some were small time pirates themselves, very few were well known pirates, it widely known that the navy set up extra patrols around the East Blue hoping to catch any serious pirates who might attend but they never did.
Every year the pirate festival took place, and every year Silk was dragged out of bed before light by her parents and forced to watch the sunrise from the docks. Silk had enjoyed the ritual when she was a child, back then it had symbolized the start of her favourite day of the year, now all she felt for it was hatred. Hatred for the fact that she was destined to spend the rest of her life in the Polestar islands cooking for the pirates she once admired in her parents' restaurant.
"Silk aren't you excited too?" her father asked "you love the Pirate Festival"
"Yeah" Silk lied "I can't wait until the tourists roll in."
"We are so blessed to be a part of it all" said her mother, for her the festival meant they would do more business in the restaurant than the rest of the year combined. "Now come on, the sun has risen, and it means we only have about an hour before the breakfast rush."
Silk's parents turned and practically skipped back to the restaurant with glee, she turned back at the sunrise once more and took in the view.
"I wish something exciting would happen, just once I wish I could have an adventure of my own" she thought before turning her back on the morning light and heading towards the restaurant she called home.
Passenger Ship, Logue town
It was mid-morning when the passenger ship Gar was on finally docked at Logue Town. The docks were so full of people that one wrong move from any naïve tourist could've sent a handful of the masses into the seas below. There were tourists attending the festival, merchants selling their wares, pirates unloading their hauls and sailors departing and returning to town as far as the eye could see. Gar ran a hand through his wavy pink hair as he took it all in, this was the first time he had been to the Polestar Islands, and he was determined to see everything. He removed his long sleeve black shirt and found salvation from the heat; it was much hotter in this part of the world than his home and he was regretting wearing the jeans he had on. As soon as Gar's foot touched the dry land of the docks the peddlers were on him, offering him various trinkets and services which he could only assume were massively overpriced, he politely declined every merchant who made their pitch to him and watched them move on immediately to the next potential sucker. Only one merchant caught Gar's eye, one at the top of the docks wooden stairs that seemed to be making more money than all the others combined.
"MAPS HERE, COME GET A MAP, YOU'LL HAVE NO LUCK NAVIGATING THE FESTIVAL WITHOUT ONE OF MY MAPS I PROMISE YOU THAT" the merchant cried as his assistants took and counted bags of Berry before handing over maps in return.
"I'll take one please" Gar said as he dug around in his backpack for his money.
"Good lad" the merchant replied "My map is the only one for sale in town that has all the festivities and stores marked on it" he held a map up in front of Gar's face to make his point. The map was covered in markings that represented the restaurants, gift shops and landmarks that were permanent fixtures in Logue town, it also had markings that denoted the various stages, stalls and other festivities around town that had been set up just for the festival, each one conveniently labelled.
"Wow, this is incredible" Gar said as he handed his money to one of the assistants and took a map in return "thank you very much".
"Anytime boy, tell your friends about us. MAPS HERE, WE GOT THE ONLY MAP YOU WILL NEED FOR TODAY"
Gar left the map seller and made his way into town, his eyes widened in awe as he saw how many people filled the streets. The crowd in the town made the docks look like a small gathering, every inch of the street he was on was covered in people, some pushing past on their way to one of the stalls, some standing in lines that had long ago lost any sense of who was where in the order, some eating and drinking with their friends. This was the busiest town Gar had ever seen but what struck him most of all was the energy here. Everyone, whether they were getting shoved out of the way or getting splashed with spilled alcohol were smiling like they had just struck gold. The feeling of happiness and celebration radiated from every direction.
"This is all for a pirate festival? is this what pirate culture is like? is this where I'll find the answers I'm looking for?" Gar thought to himself. Loud music began emanating from a stage in the next street over, Gar decided to make his way over to watch when he was knocked over from behind.
"Ow" He said while rubbing his forehead that he had just peeled off of the street, there were tangerines all over the ground around him "sorry was I blocking the way?"
"YES, IDIOT YOU WERE" a dark-haired girl screamed at him
Main Street, Logue Town
Bella was having a hell of a day. First, her drinking habit had burned through the last of her cash the night before and forced her to accept a last-minute job to Logue Town on the day of the Pirate Festival, something she never would have done otherwise. Second, she learned she would be working with Dumb and Dumber; they weren't their real names but as far as she was concerned, they were far more accurate. Third, the aforementioned idiots had abandoned her as soon as they arrived to go and have fun at the festival, leaving her to deliver the tangerines herself and if all that wasn't enough, she had just run straight into some goofy looking shirtless guy with pink hair and spilled the fruit all over the street.
"Seriously, watch where you're standing, look what you did" Bella said frustrated, her black hair reached her knees and was tied in a tight ponytail held together by hairbands spaced evenly along the length of her hair.
"I..I'm so sorry…here let me help you" Gar replied nervously
The two picked all the tangerines up and placed them back into the crate they were in. Bella dusted off her white tank top and navy-blue skirt and surveyed the crowd. One of the drunks celebrating the festival picked up a tangerine that had rolled away and was about to bite into it. Gar watched in awe as Bella's long Black hair grew rapidly and began weaving through the crowd, when it reached the drunk man, it coiled around his arm and yanked him back until he landed at Bella's feet. Bella kneeled down until her face and the drunks were inches apart.
"If I don't deliver three hundred tangerines AND I MEAN EXACTLY THREE HUNDRED TANGERINES I don't get paid, so hand it over" Bella roared. The drunk man dropped the fruit and ran off into the crowd.
"You have a devil fruit power? that's AMAZING" Gar hollered.
"Ha, you like it huh? I ate the Hair Hair Fruit; I can grow and control my hair as freely as I want" the hair moved around her body like a snake to illustrate her point.
"Incredible, wont you show it to me again?"
"Sure, but first you have to help me carry this crate and the other two on my ship to a restaurant nearby" Bella replied.
Gar was happy to help, he felt guilty for causing her trouble even if he felt like it was her fault too. Bella led Gar back to her ship to fetch the other two crates.
"What a small ship" said Gar "how far did you sail in this?"
"From the Conomi islands, we use these for short haul journeys, any further than this and we use a bigger one that requires a crew of eight to sail" Bella replied. Gar picked up the two crates and stacked them on top of each other.
"So, you travel the East Blue delivering tangerines? That's awesome, you must have been to some amazing places" Gar said as they walked along the town's streets, weaving in between the crowd as necessary.
"I mean, I guess so…..I never really thought about it before, its only temporary anyway, when I become a pirate I'm gonna see way more of the world" Bella replied
"NO WAY, A PIRATE?" Gar asked excitedly "what made you decide on that dream?"
"You're a weird dude you know that?" Bella quipped. Gar didn't look deterred at all by her remark, he just continued to smile at her silently willing her to answer his questions as they walked.
"Well if you must know" Bella looked up at the sky as if she were recalling a memory vividly "A girl who came from my village left to become a pirate a long time ago, and she pulled it off, she became a legendary pirate, at least that's what my boss says."
"Incredible, everyone here is so inspired by pirates, I had no Idea the world was like this" Gar said thoughtfully.
"You from some backwater village or something?" Bella asked
"Uh…y..yeah…something like that hahaha" Gar laughed nervously
The two chatted idly as they made their way to the restaurant. After about fifteen minutes they finally arrived at their destination, The Captains Table
The Captains Table, Logue Town
"And so, I fired my last shot, I hit one of the barrels from about two kilometres out and BOOM, the sea beast was no more" a pirate said from his booth in the corner, cheers erupted all throughout the restaurant, everyone listening to the tale thoroughly impressed by its climax. Everyone except Silk, she had heard the story a thousand times from a thousand pirates, in fact she had heard it 4 times today from different people. It seemed to be the kind of tale that a lot of pirates adopted as their own when they had drunk enough rum. Silk brushed a few strands of her blond hair behind her ear and wiped the sweat on her hands off on her apron. The restaurant had been full all day. Tourists ate at all the other restaurants around town but every pirate worth his salt knew that the best food in Lougue Town was found at the Captains Table.
Silk effortlessly balanced 3 plates on each of her forearms and delivered them to a table at the front of the restaurant before she spied two people carrying crates enter through the front door.
"Hey, you guys have our tangerines?" she called from the table.
"Yeah, got em right here" Bella called back
"And they're all there, right?" Silk inquired.
"Yep, all three hundred of them" Bella replied.
"You sure?" Silk Pressed
"I said I was sure" Bella replied through gritted teeth.
"Ok perfect, just drop them off through that door in the back" Silk gestured towards the door to the kitchen located at the back of the restaurant before turning away and taking another new order. Gar and Bella dropped the crates off just inside the kitchen.
"Don't you have to take some money?" Gar inquired.
"Nope, payment gets made directly to the company, before the order, not sure exactly how its made but I guess its so the exporters like me don't take off with the cash, I heard it happened a few times to the rum runners from Whiskey Peak, so most places don't exchange Berry at the time of delivery anymore" Bella relied.
"Well, you HAVE to tell me more about your adventures at sea, especially if you're going to become a pirate, I want to know it all and I have nothing to do until the closing ceremony tonight" Gar was beaming with joy. Silk looked at him like he had two heads.
"Fine" she replied "but you're paying for lunch.
Silk noticed the tangerine deliverers leave as she placed another order on one of her tables.
"SILK, SILK HONEY COME HERE" her mother called out from the kitchen. Silk groaned as she made her way back to the service window.
"yeah mo-"
"Honey we're out of wine" her mother cut her off "I need you to go the Good Fortune and pick up a barrel the owner owes us one" Silks mother didn't even look up as she spoke, she just continued to cook however many dishes she was working on at the time.
"Mom if I go to the Good Fortune who's gonna wait the tables?" Silk questioned; she was growing increasingly frustrated with this day.
"Wendy can take over the tables but don't linger at the bar okay get the barrel and come straight back".
"And how exactly am I supposed to get an entire barrel of wine back here by myself mom?"
"You'll figure it out honey now off you go we need that wine now" Silks mother still hadn't looked up from her cooking. Silk could feel her frustration with her parents bordering on resentment.
"All you two care about is your stupid restaurant, you don't give a shit about your daughter who's unhappy all the ti-" Silk snapped herself out of her thoughts, she reached into her shirt and pulled out the gold locket she always wore, she opened the locket and looked at the pictures inside, a picture of her parents on their wedding day on the left and a picture of them holding her when she was a baby on the right. Whenever her parents got too much for her, Silk looked at those photos to remind herself of how great they were. Sure, they cared so much about the restaurant that they often didn't notice her as much as they should, but they loved her. They provided for her and kept her safe and they always encouraged her to follow her own passion for cooking. Silk closed the locket and tucked it back into her black shirt before taking off her apron.
"Ok ill head there now" Silk told her mother before exiting through the front door.
Roger Street, Logue Town
"Here I brought you something" Mango said as he approached his captain who was sprawled out on a bench, and handed her a bag. The bag had a label from a nearby store he had just walked out of.
"What is it?" Fang replied sitting up and slipping her brown duster coat off her shoulders as she took the bag.
"Open it and find out" Mango said as he took off his own blue jacket and ran his hand through his shoulder length blond hair, the heat was beginning to affect everyone in Logue Town. Fang opened the bag and took a tricorn hat out. It was black and cheaply made but it made her smile.
"What's this for?" she asked as she straightened her purple bangs and placed it on her head.
"you're a pirate captain, you need a nice hat" Mango teased. The two pirates chuckled at the thought of someone only being a pirate captain if they had a nice hat.
"You know I've never been here" said Fang leaning back on the bench as Mango sat down next to her "This festival has been going on for like 10 years and this is the first time I've come. What about you? You ever been?"
"No" Mango replied, "but to be fair I wasn't a pirate until I met you."
Fang smiled at that. It had only been six months since she first recruited Mango as her first mate.
"Please, we're hardly pirates, there's only two of us, we're sailors at best" she reasoned.
"Eh, two today, ten tomorrow you know" Mango offered in return, he turned to look out at the open see. "The suns going down, we should get moving" he added.
Fang got up from the bench and grabbed her coat. The two made their way down to the docks and walked to the slip where they left their ship. The Tigress was their pride and joy, it was a crude construction that could barely be called a pirate ship, it was a small passenger ship that could fit around six people comfortably. There was a poorly carved tiger figure head mounted onto the front of the ship. There was no doubt about it, the Tigress was ugly, but Fang and Mango loved it all the same. For six months they had sailed the East Blue in this piece of junk, plugging leaks and replacing wood along the way, growing attached to it more and more every day.
Mango paid for the ships release while Fang got it ready to sail, the sun had half set by now, darkness washed over Logue Town. The Tigress drifted away from the dock and out towards sea.
"Nothing out there yet" Mango yelled back as he looked through a spy glass "how will we find him?"
"He said he would meet us out in the open water on the west side of the main island" Fang yelled over the wind. The two were set to meet with a man named Weasel. Weasel was a self-proclaimed "purveyor of curiosities" which pretty much meant he stole things and sold them to pirates. Without question Weasel was a bottom feeder but he had assured Fang that he had a genuine map to the New World in his possession and promised to sell it to her for twenty thousand Berry. It had taken Fang and Mango 2 months of plundering cargo ships to acquire the money.
The sun had almost completely set before Mango spied a second ship through his spy glass.
"There he is" Mango shouted. Fang walked to the front of the ship where her first mate stood, he handed her the spy glass and she raised it up to her eye , she could see Weasel's bright orange hair even at night.
"Let's go get us a map" Fang said.
Good Fortune Bar, Logue Town
Silk walked into the Good Fortune just as the sun was setting. Unlike most days the bar was full, every business in town seemed to be booming on the day of the festival. Silk approached the bar and asked the bartender for the owner.
"Sorry sweetheart he's just stepped out to deliver a barrel to he should be back in about an hour" the bartender said.
"Great" Silk thought "just what I need right now."
"Hey Blondie" a voice called out from the end of the bar. Silk looked around scanning the crowd and sifting through all the drunks until she found the source of the voice. A thin woman with short blue hair sat cozily in the corner, she wore a blue and white striped shirt with blue shorts, and she appeared about 2 years older than Silk, about 16.
"Come and sit down, have a drink, you look like you need it" the girl hollered from the corner as she gestured for the bartender to bring another cup. Silk would normally have politely declined and returned to the Captains Table but there was something about this blue haired girl, something alluring. It wasn't that she was cute, she WAS cute but that wasn't it. There was something disarming about her. It was the kind of feeling you get right before your about to make a lifelong friendship, its just felt right. Silk decided she had earned a rest and if she went back now, she would barley be at the restaurant 5 minutes before she would have to come back and pick up the barrel, so she opted to wait until the owner returned. Silk walked over to the corner and introduced herself to the blue haired girl.
"Hey, I'm Silk" she offered her hand as a greeting.
"I'm Ann" the blue haired girl replied taking the outstretched hand. "Why the long face? You have such a pretty face. I hate to see it so sad." Silk was flattered, she rarely got compliments about her face which she thought was average at best, not pretty.
"I just want this festival to end, I've had enough of pirates for today." Silk explained.
"Aw you don't like pirates?" Ann asked, "not even me?"
"You're a pirate?" Silk asked with eyes as wide as whirlpools.
"Yup" Ann replied.
"What crew are you apart of?" Silk asked.
"I can't tell you that" Ann said abruptly "we're kind of a big deal, but how bout I tell you a story from our last voyage to cheer you up."
Silk knew Ann was lying. Big time pirates never attended the festival, they couldn't, the first few crews who had tried when the festival started a decade ago were caught by the Navy before they got anywhere near the Polestar islands, but for the first time in a long time Silk wanted to hear a story, she wanted to hear about the adventures Ann and her crew had been on, she felt no resentment for the girls exciting life which surprised her.
"Sure" Silk replied with joy.
"But first a toast" Ann said raising her cup "sip the seven seas and sleep it off in hell."
"I've never heard that one before, why seven seas if there are only four?" Silk laughed.
"I don't actually know, my captain loves that one, he says it all the time." Said Ann before transitioning seamlessly into her story. Afterwards Silk told Ann about her parents, the restaurant and how she longed for adventure. It felt good for her to talk to someone about it, even someone she barely knew, and Ann had listened patiently and empathised with her.
The girls talked and laughed for over an hour before the owner returned and dragged the barrel out of the storeroom for Silk.
"Well, I have to get going" Ann said downing the last of her drink. "Silk, it was so nice meeting you, don't let this festival and the restaurant get you down but don't forget your parents love you either kay?" Ann pulled Silk into a long hug. Silk didn't want her to go, or rather, she wanted to go with her, but she knew she couldn't, she had to stay here take over the restaurant when she was old enough. If she didn't, everything her parents had built for decades would fade away into nothing. Silk silently prayed that she would see Ann at the festival next year.
"Thanks Ann, I needed this night" Silk laughed "good luck on your next adventure."
Ann just winked in return and left the bar. Silk wondered how she was going to get the barrel back to the Captain's Table. Searching for inspiration she reached for her locket when her heart stopped. The locket wasn't there. If it were any other item Silk would have frantically searched her pockets for it, but she knew she wouldn't find it. The locket never left her neck, she showered with it, slept with it, cooked with it, she hadn't taken it off even once since the day she got it for her birthday nine years earlier. Silk was frozen, she thought of the unusually long hug Ann had given her before she left.
"No. She wouldn't have, Ann isn't like that, she's a pirate sure but a good one, she wouldn't steal, not from me" Silk thought.
Then she remembered her father's words.
"Remember Silk, we serve pirates everyday and we treat them with the utmost respect, but we can never truly trust them."
Silk's father had told her that almost one a week her whole life and somehow, she had still fallen for a pirate's ploy. Silk ran out of the bar as fast as she could. She looked straight ahead, nothing. She looked right, nothing. She looked left and for a fraction of a second, she saw a girl with blue hair duck into an alleyway. Silk didn't miss a beat; she turned into the alley and ran to the end. This alley was one Silk was familiar with. There was one more right turn at the end of the next left. That was the only way Ann could go. Silk dashed to the next turn and stopped, she could hear something, it sounded like music, Ann was humming as she walked down the alley.
"Good she's distracted" She thought.
Silk prepared herself, she took a deep breath and decided on her course of action, she would make the turn and tackle Ann, with the element of surprise she could grab the locket and run before the thief knew what hit her.
"Okay Silk" she thought to herself "three, two, on-"
"There you are Ann; I've been looking for you" a voice Silk didn't recognise filled the alley. She peeked around the corner and a shiver ran down her spine, it was like being struck by lightning. A woman stood before Ann, she was tall for a woman, about six feet. She wore a nice coat like the kind a noble would wear, but Silk knew she was no noble. A straight sword with a cross guard hung from the left side of her waist and she had a pistol tucked into the waistband on her opposite hip. The woman's head was shaved on both sides but the hair in the middle was long, beautiful blonde hair sprouted from her mohawk in every direction like strands of soft gold. This woman was beautiful, but the feeling she gave Silk made her stomach churn. This woman was beautiful but she was also terrifying, like a monster wearing the face of a loved one.
"Oh, it's you Miss Marie" Ann said cheerfully.
"Come on" the woman replied, not an ounce of emotion in her voice "the captain wants to leave early, once we get back, we're off."
Silk watched as the two women made there way to the end of the alley before making the last turn out. Silk ran to the end of the alley and peeked out again.
"Come on Silk, just go and get your locket back, take them by surprise and run" Silk thought, but she couldn't move any closer, just being near this "Miss Marie" felt like being in a spider's mouth, one wrong move away from a horrible and painful death. Silk followed the two women to the very edge of the main island where they got into a rowboat that Ann rowed out towards the next island over. In the distance Silk spotted it, a huge pirate ship, fit for a crew of about 40 docked at one of the tiny islands nearby.
Silk stared at the ship etching every detail of it into her brain. The figurehead was a witch with her hand pointing forward, it had two crow's nests, there was a circular window built into the bow of the ship, probably captain's quarters, the jolly roger was a skull with ogre horns, but it was upside down.
"Okay" Silk thought "this is the east side of the main island but because of the currents, if they want to leave, they'll have to sail around to the west side first" being obsessed with pirates for most of her life had given Silk the exact skills she needed to form a plan.
Silk ran back into the alleyway and retraced her journey to the main street before taking off towards the docks.
"Please god let there be someone with a ship at the docks" Silk prayed as she ran.
Witches Wail, Polestar Islands
"arrgh where the hell is Marie, I sent her to go find Ann an hour ago" Tom complained, throwing his black overcoat over the railing of his ships helm, fed up from the heat. The white tunic and light blue pants he wore underneath allowed for the breeze to cool him down.
"I told you that girl Ann would be nothing but trouble when I first met her" Jericho replied, he was dark skinned with light dreadlocks and the fancy coat he had stolen from a noble on their last voyage had been left open exposing his bare chest.
"Ah but trouble is what makes life interesting Jericho" Tom replied taking another huge swig from his mug "as soon as they're back, we're leaving."
"And to where next do we sail?" Jericho asked, a challenge in his eyes.
"Perhaps we'll head home, it will make for a good tale" Tom replied accepting the challenge.
"A trip to one's homeland will surely never fail" Jericho returned.
"Well let's hope the girls return quickly so we can hit the trial." Tom replied.
"Of course we could always…..hmph, you win this one captain, but my rhymes will prevail next time" Jericho raised his mug in defeat. Tom raised his own mug in good sport, the rest of the crew hated their little rhyming game, mostly because they were the two worst players at it and so the rhymes never lasted longer than a few sentences, but they adored the contest.
"Captain, our crew has returned" Jean-Francois said from the deck below, he was a boy of barely fifteen with faded orange hair.
"FINALLY," Tom yelled "What took you so long?"
"I was having a drink with a friend captain" Ann replied, Silk's locket hanging around her neck.
"Well, you should have said as much" Tom replied "Come on there's more drinks to be had elsewhere" Ann and Marie climbed aboard the Witches Wail as it began drifting out to open sea.
"ALRIGHT EVERYONE LISTEN UP" Tom yelled as he raised his mug "SIP THE SEVEN SEAS."
"AND SLEEP IT OFF IN HELL" the crew roared back before breaking out into laughter.
Logue Town Docks, Logue Town
"So do you think the Pirate King will show up?" Gar asked, "I mean, the festival is celebrating him after all."
"Man, you really are a hick" Bella replied. The two of them were laying on their backs int Bella's tiny cargo ship looking up at the stars, their legs dangling over the side of the deck. "The festival celebrates the FIRST Pirate King, Gol D Roger, he was born here, and it's held on the anniversary of his execution, the CURRENT Pirate King doesn't come, he never has."
"The current Pirate King, Straw Hat Luffy" Gar mused "I wonder what he's like."
"HEY, YOU, TANGERINE GIRL" Silk yelled from the top of the dock's stairs.
"I have a name you know" Bella bit back.
"Please you have to help me, I need you to sail me over there in your ship" Silk pointed to the east side of the island, "a thief stole something from me, and I need to get it back."
"Nah I'm good" Bella replied, she didn't like this girl and she had no intention of sailing a ship that wasn't technically hers out into open sea at night just to chase some thief.
"Bella, we should help this girl" Gar interjected.
"Then find your own ship and you go thief catching" Bella said as she yawned.
"Bella, please" Gar looked her dead in the eye, his face so serious it unnerved her. Bella held his gaze daring him to back down, but he didn't, he wasn't going to stop until she agreed, she could tell.
"Why? You don't even know her" Bella asked.
"Because she asked us, and I believe in helping people when they need it, besides she is a good person, I can tell" Gar explained earnestly.
"Ugh fine" Bella said after a few seconds "you really are such a hick, COME ON WAITER GIRL GET IN"
Silk ran down the steps and jumped into the boat as Bella and Gar got it ready for sailing, they left the dock moments later towards the open sea.
Open Sea, East Blue
"You got my map?" Fang asked when her ship drifted over to Weasel's. Fang didn't trust people like him, especially when they asked to meet in open waters next to an island rather than the island itself.
"Right here my lady" Weasel replied reaching into his worn-out fur coat and pulling out a rolled-up parchment. "You got the money?"
"Let us see the map first" Mango interjected, he trusted weasel even less than Fang did and he could tell that the man was on edge.
"Well, aren't you a scary man, what's he a bodyguard?" Weasel deflected, a pink light emanated from Logue town that lit up the boats, "looks like the fireworks have started".
"He's right Weasel, we don't pay until we see the map" said Fang covering her eyes from the light. Weasel passed the map over the gap between the ships and into Fangs hand. Fang inspected the map closely, turning and holding it up to the bright pink light to see better, she had never been to the Grand Line, so she didn't know if that part was accurate or not, she checked the places she did know to make sure they were right, they weren't. Various island had been either mislabelled as other islands or had made up names completely.
"Seriously Weasel? I sailed all the way out here for this bootleg bullshit?" Fang asked angrily "I'm not paying you a single Berry unti-"
"HEY" Mango yelled as the pink light grew even brighter "I don't think that's fireworks." The light got so bright that they couldn't look directly at it, the three of them turned away as an awful screeching sound filled their ears, drowning out even their own voices, all they could see was white, all they could hear was the screech and then, suddenly, an ear shattering crack filled the area.
A shockwave pushed their ships further out into the sea. The tigress almost capsized but it held on and eventually steadied.
Fang looked back at Logue town in awe. It was gone. Like a god had reached down from the heavens and crushed it, every inch of the main island and a large amount of the surrounding smaller islands had been completely destroyed.
"Wha….What the hell just happened here?" Fang whispered.
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