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half_a_cup_of_crazy on AO3 asked for a jealous Phoenix when a talking parrot would appear, so here we go!
Some crew members blinked as Ace come onboard with something on his head, something blue and talking.
"Commander Ace? What's that?"
"It's a parrot! I found him on the island, isn't he the cutest!"
"YOI!" - PHOENIX IS CUTER!
Ace blinked as someone yelled, obviously Marco, but he still had to ask the blond not far away from him, "Marco?"
Said blond cleared his throat, "Sorry, something- ahem- got into my throat."
"Oh annoying, anyway!" Ace smiled turning back to the others, taking the parrot of his head and cupping it his hands to hold out. "Look at him he's so-"
"Yoi."
The deck grew silent...
"Yoi."
Ace squealed and turned the bird to him, "You said yoi! Ooooooohhh that's so cute! Just like Phoenix!" And laughed brightly for a second until suddenly he was knocked to the floor.
"Huh- wha- Phoenix!" Ace smiled seeing the big bird on top of him, "You came to say hi to little Phoenix."
"YOI!" Phoenix called out and with a talon pushed the little guy off of Ace's hands. He was about to nuzzle into the raven, HIS raven! When instead he was pushed off.
"Phoenix! No!" Hurriedly Ace pushed the bigger bird off and went for the little parrot, picking it up, "Are you okay little one?" and patted over the head.
A meter away the blue bird laid on his back, not reacting to the pirated nudging him with their foot, asking if he was okay. So, he was going over everything just that just happened.
His friend had pushed him, pushed him away for another Phoeni- NOT PHOENIX! For a tiny little ugly bird. Ugly bird that copied him. Ugly bird at least knew Phoenix was great and tried to mimic his greatness, but would of course never be as good as him but-… he was pushed!
"Guys I think he's crying..."
"What do we do?"
"... Ace? Can you like... Help Phoenix up?"
Ace blinked "huh? What do you mean?" and looked over with a chuckle, "don't worry, he's just napping!"
Napping...
A long coo left him as his wings spread out around him on the floor, letting himself melt away. So this was his end... Pushed over the edge to his death by his friend.
'Phoenix, you're okay.'
Shut up my human, Phoenix wants to die alone
'You can't.'
Phoenix will.
'Why are you dying-yoi?'
Friend pushed me to my death.
'... Maybe it was an accident.'
"Yoi?"
'Yea, you know how Ace gets sometimes, maybe it was a weird spasm from his Narcolepsy.'
Phoenix thought over it before he jumped up with a loud happy coo, not caring he knocked over atleast two cabin boys with his wings. They need to make way for the mighty Phoenix!
Accident! His friend didn't mean to push! Yes! NO DEATH FOR PHOENIX!
Cooooooooooooooooooooo
With happy coos he swung his head side to side as he sung, walking to his lovely fire human and nestling in his side, for now ignoring the ugly blue bird.
"Do you want to say hello to mini-Phoenix?"
Blinking he saw the little bird being lowered before his sighed, confused he looked up, why would Phoenix say hello to ugly impersonator?
"C'mon, just a tiny greeting. You would make me very happy."
…
…
Greeting... they didn't need to hello right?
With that Phoenix turned back to the thing before him. Beady eyes, blue feather, even a few yellow ones in between, obviously badly mimicking him.
With a little roll of his eyes he leaned closer, lightly tapping the tiny birds chest with his head. 'Phoenix is better then you.' He cooed out to the tinier one. Good greeting if he thought so himself.
"Goodjob! Thank you!"
See! Even friend knows is good greeting. He preened at the head rubs he got from the scorching hand, looking smug at the tiny bird. Phoenix is best Phoenix. Always.
Marco groaned, hitting his head on the table at breakfast.
"What's up birdy-"
"Don't, Thatch, Don't-yoi."
"Aaawww cmon, tell uncle Thatchy what's up?"
"You know what's up." Marco sat up, blue flames spreading over his forehead before they're gone, "That." And nudged his chin to a table further.
Humming Thatch looked at the other table, a table full of spades and...
"Hiiii! How are you! Yoi! Hi! Yoi!"
Ace squealed, "he's learning more and more words! Isn't that amazing!".
Deuce laughed as the small bird seemed to preen at the attention, only yelling louder while it jumped around on the table. "What are you teaching him next?"
"I want him to say 'Phoenix'."
"You sure?"
"Yea! Since they're friends he needs to be able to say Phoenix's name! And he can already say 'yoi!' so he obviously likes Phoenix."
Deuce nodded, looking a little besides eyes at the glaring blue eyes from the other table, "Yea... friends..."
"HIIIII! YOI!"
"He is cute, cuter than the big version who's deadly." Deuce chuckled and patted the little bird, "Goodluck with the friendship little one."
…
Thatch laughed "Please don't tell me Phoenix is jealous?"
At the defeated groan leaving the blond Thatch laughed even harder.
"It's not funny-yoi."
"Kinda is."
"No." Marco grumbled, sprawling his hands over the table for a minute before laying his head down on top of them as he crossed them. "Phoenix has done nothing but yell. Yell at me to let him out. Yell at the tiny ugly impersonator."
"Tiny ugly impersonator?"
"Phoenix's name for the parrot."
"Nice."
"Yea, sure-yoi." Marco rolled his eyes at it, "and when he's not yelling, he's or crying over how Ace is leaving him, how he's dying, how-"
"Dying? Are you for real? Because Ace is giving a parrot attention."
"Do these look like I'm joking?" Marco looked dead into Thatch's eyes and pointed to the baggs under his eyes. "He's not letting me sleep in favour of coming up with things how to please Ace and win his favour again. Or how to get rid of the parrot."
Thatch snorted, "Very different topics. I am interested in the ideas."
"Which ones?"
"Both?"
"For Ace... Kinda keeps going to just showing off. Flying around him to show off, preen to put attention on his feathers, catch him some big animal to show his strength and to give food, find pretty rocks. Ya know, the basics."
"The basics, yea, sorry forgive me for forgetting those."
"Shut it-yoi. Anyway. For the getting rid of the parrot. Far to many have been Phoenix picturing himself eating the thing."
Thatch choked on his own spit, "Excuse me?! Eat him! I know he dislikes him, but EAT?!"
"You do need to remember Phoenix is a predator Thatch, even if he looks like a softy onboard and loves fruits and seeds."
"He was afraid of CD's marco!? How is that a predetor!?"
"That's different Thatch. Phoenix doesn't know what a CD is. In the wild he's on top of the bird predetor chain or whatever. I mean... You think there's many other birds with talons his size and the ability to just heal from whatever?"
"Yea... I guess you're right..."
"And why do you think the Moby doesn't have a mouse or rat problem?"
Thatch nodded to it, "Fair."
"Now excuse me while I go and try to do atleast some paperwork and ignore the screeching of revenge and Phoenix's greatness."
"Alright" the cheff watched Marco leave, but as he left he started blinking, "W-wait! What did you mean with the mouse and rat problem is not there because of Phoenix?"
After having stopped for a second to listen what Thatch wanted, he however walked quicker on his way out.
"Stop! Does Phoenix hunt them?! Does Phoenix eat them?! DO YOU EAT THE MOUSES ON SHOP MARCO!? COME BACK HERE!"
"Look! They're playing!"
"Ace... I don't... yea... sure... Playing murder."
"Silly Jozu!" Ace slapped the diamand-man's back so hard the man had to actually transform a part of it to not get hurt, "They're playing catch!"
…
SCRRRREEEEEEEECHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
GET OVER HERE LITTLE PEASANT! HOW DARE YOU PREEN MY FIRE HUMAN FRIEND'S HAIR! ONLY PHOENIX PREEN FRIEND!
…
"Catch..." Jozu murmured watching the obviously with murder intent Phoenix fly after the tiny blue parrot. The Phoenix uncaring for anyone in his path and if the crew members didn't jump out of the way or take boxes aside, the Phoenix would just fly through them or knock them away to pursue the target that, with its tinier size, was a lot more mobile.
"oh no."
…
GOT YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!
Phoenix screeched in victory as the little ugly impersonator was trapped under his talon.
'Yoi! Hii! Yoi!'
Impersonating Phoenix shall not save you! But! Phoenix shall grant mercy and be quick! Only quick swallow and no chew!
…..
As phoenix opened his beak and was nearing the small being trapped, chaos interrupted around.
"Someone's gotte stop them!" Thatch came running, "Marco said Phoenix was actively gonne eat the parrot!"
"What?!"
But no worry was necessary for just before the parrot disappeared inside, never to be seen again, it-
…
'Yoi! Foenis! Phoeniss!'
? Phoenix stopped and pulled back a bit, cocking his head at the little bird. What you say to Phoenix?
'Yoi! Hi! Phoenix!'
All the rage and jealousy inside the mythical being's heart melted away in an instant and slowly the big talon was opened.
The little bird jumping out and nuzzled against the big deadly talon in where it had just been in. All the while chirping, randomly calling out Phoenix's name and all the other words the bird knew.
Phoenix had to crane his neck to look underneath him, to see the little ugly bird rub against him, he barely felt it... but...
'Phoenix! Yoi! Yoi!'
"Yoi." Phoenix cooed back softly, still a little confused on the whole thing.
'YOI!'
The little one chirped back louder and happily and Phoenix carefully pushed the tiny bird away from himself... This was... weird...
'YOI! PHOENIX PHOENIX!'
But the little one kept running back to him... Why... Go away... Phoenix tried to eat ugly impersonator...
'HIIII!'
…. Without a sound Phoenix slowly nestled down. A few sounds of horror around that Phoenix sat down on the parrot and crushed it. But a few seconds later, out of the plumage of Phoenix's chest, did the small hat pop out. Chirping happily.
Ugly impersonator... maybe... not so ugly...
With his beak Phoenix carefully nudged the little bird more towards his wing, opening it slightly and smiling inside as the tiny bird hopped inside the gap. And when the tiny one started pulling at the feathers inside on him, it only took a minute to realise the smaller bird was preening him.
Silly little impersonator, Phoenix's feathers are too big for you to preen.
But still Phoenix didn't stop the little one and instead fully nestled down, putting his own head back and resting it into the wing, still able to see the little guy work away.
Maybe... maybe Phoenix can share his friend if it is with little impersonator... just a little.