Ghostly Encounter with Lively New Friends
Gasper is seen standing ten feet across from Shirone as she wears her dark blue fighting gloves while he is wearing red ones on his hands.
"Okay, are you ready?" Shirone asked her King for their combat training.
"Y-Yeah, I'll do my best!" Gasper nodded and ready himself in a small basic stance.
"Do your best!" Brook cheered watching this from the sideline.
Gasper made the first move my charging at his friend throwing the first punch which was slow for Shirone as she dodges it easy and dodge another punch immediately, Gasper kept throwing several more punches, but he could never land a single kick until Shirone grab his fist and pulls him in for an elbow on the face.
Of course, this hurts a lot for Gasper which is what he expected when it comes to combat training with Shirone though he wishes she could hold back a little to make it less painful.
But Gasper recovered in a second and comes back trying to punch her again then throwing a kick which Shirone made an instant move to appear behind him on the left.
"Those two sure are serious with their training." Brook commented before drinking his cup with some actual water in it.
"Of course, I really wish Gasper would wear pants instead of a skirt." Brook sighed in disappointment as that kick Gasper did would end up showing his underwear.
Shirone punch him on the side and jump for a spin kick to the head though Gasper was able to block that to not take any further damage.
"Good, your defense is getting a little better than your offense." Shirone nodded of approval.
"Thank you, glad to hear that!" Gasper said while going in for another strike.
Gasper tries throwing some fast punches which she can easily see them coming consider he's not that fast just yet, then she strikes back with her own punch to the stomach and across the face.
"That would've certainly made me bite my tongue, but lucky me that I don't have a tongue anymore! Yohohoho!" Brook joked.
"Blablablabla! That was funny!" Gasper laughed, before being sent flying by Shirone's kick.
"Pay attention when training!" Shirone scolded.
Shirone didn't waste time as she runs at Gasper with a jump of an axe-kick that Gasper got scared and quickly rolled out of the way, then he flip himself back on his feet for a quick turn around to for a punch on the back.
"(Yes, I'm gonna get her this time!)" Gasper thought threw the punch.
But the punch never made contact with the back because the arm was suddenly grabbed by a white tail wrapping around it, this causes Gasper to gasp before another tail comes out from Shirone and punch him in the face.
"Oh man, I thought I had you there!" Gasper exclaimed.
"You're gonna have to strike faster in order to outpace my instinct reaction." Shirone stated as she turns around.
Now Shirone has a pair of white cat ears and a pair of matching white tails, and her pupils become more cat-like.
"You know, I always thought how cute you look whenever you use that Cat-Cat Fruit: Model Nekomata." Gasper complimented with a smile.
This causes Shirone to feel fluster with her face turning a little red and her tails flinch straight up though she kept herself calm in her composure, but she turns around to hide her blushing face from her King.
"(Damn it, why did you have to be born so cute!)" Shirone screamed in her head.
"Aw, young love!" Brook smiled.
"Shut up!" Shirone yelled at the skeleton man.
"Hey Shirone, how long have we been on this ship by now?" Gasper asked as he gets himself back up.
"Three days, my King. We've been doing well so far, but getting fish is a little hard out here in this fog." Shirone answered.
"Well, the Florian Triangle is a dangerous place that said that every year over 100 ships disappear in these very waters. At least that's how the legend goes." Brook explained about this part of the sea.
"Do you think they were eaten by Sea Kings or something worse happened?" Gasper asked, shaking in fear.
"That would be terrifying if there was anybody alive to tell the tale, but luckily for me nothing seems to happen." Brook said.
"More like unlucky that you're a pervert." Shirone deadpanned.
"But if you've been here for a long time then why don't you leave? Surely, there must be some other places better than here, somewhere you want to be at right now." Shirone asked curiously.
"Yohohoho. You certainly ask a personal question, like not holding back your punches." Brook chuckled.
"Yeah, Shirone has been known to act like that." Gasper nodded.
"There is somewhere I would like to go, and there is someone I wish to see again after being away from him for so long to fulfill a promise." Brook looked up at the dark sky.
"A promise, then he must be an important friend." Gasper amazed.
"Yes, he is, but unfortunately I cannot leave this foggy sea because nothing happened that prevented me to leave, and I've been stuck here for five years since." Brook explained sounding sad.
"In that case, maybe we can help you with whatever is preventing you from leaving this place." Gasper offered shocking Shirone.
"Really? You would really help a man who is literally nothing but bones and barely know for three days?" Brook asked shock as well.
"Of course, you've been so kind to us with showing some hospitality and helping us with food by giving Shirone that fishing rod and even letting us sleep on those old beds." Gasper pointed out Brook's kindness.
Brook is shocked to hear that someone who dress like a girl and can be timid some time also just barely knowing him is willing to help a strange skeleton man, this would make his heart race even though he doesn't have a heart, yet he is on the verge of tears coming out.
"Honestly, you're always too good for your own good." Shirone sighed, seeing Gasper being kind to others once again.
"So, you ready to be free from this place?" Shirone asked with a smile.
Free. The one word that Brook has been hearing in his head for a long time though he has almost given up on that over the past five years since being stuck here, he tried to get out through what happened to him and get something that was stolen from him. But he failed and was forced to retreat.
But even so, he never gave up on hope entirely and has been preparing himself for that fateful day when he does return to "that place" and reclaim what was taken from him.
"Thank you, you're both such kind good souls." Brook thanked.
"Oh my, it's been such a long time since I felt such joy in my very being that my brain is going to melt with all this positivity! Except I don't have a brain to think of the positive! Yohohoho!" Brook laughed joyfully and spinning around.
"I'm glad your happy. Blablabla!" Gasper smiled.
"You know what? I feel like doing a song for the mood!" Brook suggested.
"Oh, you're gonna sing for us?" Gasper asked.
"Yes, a very classic song that every pirate knows, and I know you're going to love it!" Brook excited to share them the song.
Shirone and Gasper ready themselves for this amazing pirate song as Brook clear his throat then start singing for the two kids.
"Yo hohoho, yo hohoho, Yo hohoho, yo hohoho! Yo hohoho, yo hohoho, Yo hohoho, yo hohoho!" Brook hummed the start of the song.
"Yo hohoho, yo hohoho, Yo hohoho, yo hohoho! Yo hohoho, yo hohoho, Yo hohoho, yo hohoho!" Brook hummed again for the warmup.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHH?!"
"What was that? A scream of someone?" Shirone heard the scream and look down.
To her surprise, below her is an actual healthy looking and large ship with a strange figure head of either a lion or a sun, but she also saw people down there looking up at the ship as all are shocked and scared of the scene.
"Gather up all of the crew, it's time to ship out Binks' brew. Sea wind blows, to where, who knows? The waves will be our guide." Brook singed as Gasper clap his hands together.
"Guys, there are people down there on a ship!" Shirone alerted.
"That's amazing, you have such a beautiful voice!" Gasper complimented to Brook's talent.
"Yohohoho! Thank you, I've always been the heart of a musician since I was a child!" Brook smiled.
"Hey! I said we just sail next to people!" Shirone yelled finally getting their attention.
"Really? People sailing in these waters!" Brook gasped.
"Are they friendly?" Gasper worried.
"Well, some of them looked harmless though there were a few that seemed very dangerous." Shirone explained of what she can make out of the people she saw.
"Then let us welcome them with open arms!" Brook said as he drops the rope ladder.
"Wait! We don't even know if they are dangerous or not!" Shirone stated.
"Don't worry, I'm sure these guys won't mean any harm to us, and we can even be friends with them too." Gasper believed.
"How would you even know that?" Shirone asked since Gasper never met these people.
"I don't know, I just feel it in my heart." Gasper shrugged, just trusting his instincts.
Shirone just let out a sigh knowing that whenever Gasper gets this strong feeling from his instincts in times like this, they're usually right though not always probably about 90 or 95% at a time and they almost never go wrong from finding out for themselves in person. But she fears that he can be a little too trusting of his instincts.
"Alright, we'll let them come on board." Shirone decided to see how this will go.
"Thanks, Shirone! I know you won't regret this!" Gasper smiled hugging his friend.
"Let's hope I don't." Shirone smiled a bit, and then they heard a girl screaming loud in fear.
"Brace yourselves, here they come." Brook alerted the two as three people come up onto the deck of the ship.
The first one is young tall man with black shaggy hair, round black eyes, and a slim muscular build. He wears a straw hat with a red ribbon. His clothing is consisted of an orange vest with yellow buttons and red shorts.
The second one is a slim, muscular, long-legged man with blond hair which he keeps brushed over the left of his face. He also has a strange swirling above her right eye. He wears a dark blue shirt with a light blue tie, as well as his usual black suit jacket and trousers, and jet-black shoes.
The third and final person is a slim young woman of average height with orange hair tied in a small ponytail and brown eyes. She also has a blue tattoo in the shape of a pinwheel and a tangerine on her left shoulder. She wears a pink, long-sleeved sweater with a white collar, a pleated brown mini-skirt, and brown high-heeled boots. Breasts sizes: I-cup.
"(Wow, they all look so cool!)" Gasper thought amazed and look at the older girl thinking she's cute too.
"Wow, there are two more ghosts with the skeleton!" The guy with the straw hat commented.
"Ghosts? Where?!" Brook screamed as he looks around.
"Hold on, I think that guy meant us!" Gasper pointed out, but then look at the straw hat guy.
"(How odd, I feel like I've seen him somewhere before.)" Gasper thought tilted his head a bit.
"Why, good afternoon! Yohohohoho!" Brook laughed exciting.
"Thank you all for stopping by. You must excuse us for not greeting you properly before, I was really quite surprised that there wouldn't be more people coming since these two came bumping onto my ship. Quite literally." Brook said.
"Unlike us, he's been stuck in these waters for years and haven't seen a single ship nor other people that he gets scared like a bitch." Shirone pointed out bluntly.
"Shirone! You don't need to say it like that!" Gasper gasped worry.
"Well, it is quite ironic that ghost ships would frighten me." Brook commented.
"Also, in case you three were wondering. We're both living humans as in we're not ghost or anything supernatural in anyway, unless you count Devil Fruits." Shirone informed crossing her arms.
"Whoa! It can talk! It's a singing, talking afro skeleton!" The guy with the straw hat excited.
"Are you listening to me?!" Shirone yelled angry.
"Don't worry, we heard you." The blonde guy assured, but then look at the other girl getting a weird feeling that he shouldn't go near her for some reason.
"Oh my!" Brook looked toward the young woman with orange hair.
"What a charming young woman you are, beautiful!" Brook complimented.
"Oh, no!" The orange hair chuckled nervously taking a step back.
"I'm all eyes for ladies such as yourself, or I would be if skeleton had any eyes. Yohohoho!" Brook joked making Gasper and the straw hat guy laugh.
Brook cleans himself up a bit to make himself look presentable for the young woman and walks up to her which is only making the orange hair girl feel fear.
"Could you perhaps show me your panties?" Brook asked.
"YEAH RIGHT!" The orange hair girl threw a kick right on the head causing a large swollen bump to appear.
"I knew that was gonna happen." Shirone facepalmed herself.
"Are you okay, Brook!" Gasper asked worry.
"(Seriously, why does this girl make me feel weird to stay away?)" The blonde man thought glared at Gasper.
"Yohoho! Feisty, I like it!" Brook commented as he fell.
"That hurt me right down to the bone! Because I'm a skeleton, you see." Brook pointed out.
"I get it!" The orange hair girl yelled, still angry about the stupid panties question and the straw hat guy just laughs seeing how funny this guy is.
"The kick just gave him a swollen right on his skull." The blonde guy shocked of this.
"Hey wait, do skeletons poop?" The straw hat guy asked casually.
"We got like a million questions to ask before that one!" The blonde guy yelled at his friend.
"Yeah, don't you know the meaning of the word "privacy" and such." Shirone scolded the straw hat guy as well.
"Wait, is that even physical possible?" Gasper puzzled of the skeleton man can actually poop like normal humans.
"Oh yes, I can poop." Brook nodded.
"Every heard of TMI! We don't need to hear that!" Shirone and the blonde guy yelled as that was just too gross to hear.
"Anyway, how is it that you can sing and talk when you're nothing but bones? Are you really the living dead or what? Also why are you here with those two girls and what the Hell is up with this ship? These waters aren't really haunted, are they?" The blonde guy started asking some questions.
"To be honest, we don't really know much ourselves since me and her just came here three days ago." Gasper answered.
"Well, we need answers." The blonde guy said.
"Hold on, I got a question for ya and your two friends can come too if they want." The straw hat guy said stepping forward ahead of the other two.
"Ready? Will you join our crew?" The straw hat guy asked.
Both the blonde guy and the orange hair girl gasp upon the sudden question which Gasper and Shirone are shocked of this as well, but this gives Gasper an idea.
"Yes, we certainly will." Brook nodded.
"Hold on, you can't just" Shirone wanted to complain, but Gasper stops her.
"I think we should go for it, a pirate crew doesn't sound like a bad idea consider these nice folks are and this could also help us find that fruit." Gasper believed shocking Shirone.
"It's nice to meet you, my name is Vladi D. Gasper, and we thank you for inviting us." Gasper greeted with a smile.
"What? But my King, you can't be serious!" Shirone exclaimed, but he just gave her an assuring smile.
"Fine, my name is Toujou Shirone. I go where this boy goes." Shirone said.
"And my name is Brook, a pleasure." Brook introduced himself.
"Cool, my name is Monkey D. Luffy and I'm going to be King of the Pirates!" Luffy revealed his name. Famous strong rookie pirate "Straw Hat Luffy" and captain, bounty: 300,000,000 berries.
"Guess we're doing this, huh. Hey there, my name is Sanji." Sanji introduced himself. Cook of the Straw Hat Pirates and known as Black Leg, bounty: 77,000,000 berries.
"Are you for real?" The orange hair girl gulped and slow turns to the three.
"H-Hi, I'm Nami and please don't eat me!" Nami begged, still shaking in fear. She is the best navigator of the crew and called the Cat Burglar, bounty: 16,000,000.
"I hope we can become friends." Gasper smiled.
"Just a quick question, are you really a girl?" Sanji asked.
"No, I'm actually a boy." Gasper answered causing Sanji to gasp in fear and disappointment.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Now Gasper, Shirone, and Brook have met the famous Straw Hat Pirates with the captain coming up and immediately invites them to join his crew, let see how things will go with new friends coming together and the darkness they will have to survive.
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