As the Straw Hats were making there way towards Water 7 Luffy was discussing with other on who we should get for a shipwright.
"What a nice wind, were sure to make it to Water 7 twice as fast." Nami said
"I'll be happy either way." Chopper said
"Hey Luffy don't bother trying to find a shipwright I got it all covered for ya, I'll find and get the hottest girl in town guaranteed." Sanji said
"Yeah because you have such a "successful" hit with the ladies." Cray said in a sarcastic tone
"what do I care if the Shipwright is hot? I want a huge manly dude that's bigger then a bear sixteen feet tall like the one we saw on Long Ring Long Land." Luffy said
"Come on Luffy, a guy that size wouldn't even fit on the ship and who know how much found he would have to eat." Ussop said
"No kidding and we already have you who already eats as much as it is." Cray said to Luffy.
"All that matters is that he's good at his job, if you ask me the real problems going to be is to find someone that will join a bunch of pirates." Zoro said
"I'm sure were bound to find someone." Cray said
"I'm just excited we'll be making a new friend." Chopper said
"Were lucky we ran into that train station along the way, this map should be a big help, all we have to do is follow kokoros directions to that iceberg and were set." Nami said unfolding the paper and as she looked at it it was nothing but a bunch of scribbles and drawing that looked a kid drew it.
"I see...STUPID DRUNK!" Nami yelled crumbling the paper and throwing it to the ground in anger.
"Wow it looks like one of Luffys drawings." Chopper said picking it up.
"Okay lets find a shipwright that look like this." Luffy said holding a drawing that he made that looked like a clown.
"Is that suppose to some sort of clown?" Cray said looking at it with intrigue
"I don't know, if I saw some one like that I would run." Ussop said
"More then just run i would jump into the sea." Sanji said
"by the way since we'll be waiting for a week let me give you all your allowances." Nami said
"Me First, Me first." Chopper said
"Yeah." Luffy said
"Will this be an Allowance that we'll need to pay back in three hundred percent interest?" Cray said
"Keep talking like that Cray and it will be, but only for you." Nami said in a agitated tone.
As they continued on Ussop was then hgging the mast of the ship.
"What are you doing Ussop?' Luffy said
"I'm just giving the going merry and everything going to be all right hug, she'll be in tip top shape in no time." Ussop said
"Well lets hope that time is soon, the boards are starting to come loose and leaks are sprouting everywhere below deck, nobody wants to admit it, but if we don't fix this problem soon were good as sunk" Sanji said
"Yeah but even if we can't get a shipwright we still got alot of money, we can do more then just fix the ship, we can power her up to." Luffy said
"Oh yeah, lets get some extra cannons." Ussop said
"Yeah and a big Statue!" Luffy yeleld
"HEY GUYS LOOK! I THINK WERE ALMOST THERE!" Cray yelled looking out pointing
all of them looked and noticed Water 7 closing in everyone stared in awe as they saw the city and its structure, a huge Fountain as its main eye grabber. and water spewing out of it in certain sections of the city.
"Whoa I didn't think fountains were made that big!" Luffy said
"Whoever made it seem to have had some artistic inspiration for it, take a look on how its structured." Cray said noticing the the designs that were engraved in the fountains
"Thats a lot of water, do you think it comes from the ocean?" Chopper said
"Thats what it seems like, then it pours out of the fountain then into the canals and then back to the sea." Robin said
"Look at the walls why do you think there numbered?" Zoro said
"I don't know, they look like walls but they could be some sort of gates." Sanji said
"I can see the station straight ahead, but wheres the port?" Nami said
"Maybe its inside the city." Ussop said looking for it.
"HEY! HOLD ON!"
everyone looked and noticed a fisherman yelling at them
"PIRATES SHOULD'T USE THE FRONT! YOU NEED TO BE MORE DISCREET! USE THE BACK STREET ENTRANCE OVER THERE INSTEAD!" The Fisherman said pointing
"Oh Thanks!" Nami said at the fisherman
As they turned towards the back street entrance they started to get a closer at the Cities structure seeing that every building looked like that they were floating on the ocean.
"HEY! YOU PIRATES BETTER NOT BE PLANNING ON PLUNDERING!" A man sweeping at a coffee shop said
"WERE NOT WE JUST CAME BY TO FIX OUR SHIP!" Luffy yelled
"Oh well in that case i suggest you dock your ship over there." the man said continuing his sweeping.
"Okay this is weird, why is everyone so nonchalant about us being here?" Cray said
The Straw Hats then docked that was a little bit away of the city were no one can find it.
"This seems like a good place to hide our ship." Luffy said
As Zoro was was pulling up the Sail on the mast, he then tugged a little bit and then part of the mast then suddenly snapped, terrifying and shocking Ussop, Luffy, Sanji and Cray.
"Woah Zoro! what wrong with you! are you trying to tear up the ship!?" Ussop yelled
"Damn! i just pulled on the rope like a normally do!" Zoro yelled out trying to push the mast back in place.
"Holy Crap, if the ship is in this bad of a shape, were lucky we even got here at all." Zoro said
"By the way this place doesn't it seem to be that scared of pirates, don't you guys think that's kind of weird?" Nami said
"I sure do, remember last time we came to a place that didn't have problems with pirates?" Cray said
"Its because were shipwright customers just like everyone," Zoro said
"Stop yapping and get to finishing fixing the ship." Ussop said
"They probably aren't scared because they know they have enough security to deal with them if they misbehave." Robin said
"I bet theres plenty of marines here to." Sanji said
"Marines!?" Do you think they'll try to arrest us!?" Ussop said scared
" I don't think they'll be a problem seeing as how were paying customers and all." Sanji said
"I guess so." Ussop said
"ANYWAY SEE YOU GUYS LATER!" Luffy and Ussop yelled
"Hold on you Two, before you go anywhere we have some business to take care of first." Nami said
"Like what?" Luffy said
"We need to take Kokoros reference letter to That Iceberg guy assuming we can find him, so eh can take care of the ship for us, after that we need to find a place where we can trade in all that gold for some Beri's." Luffy said
"Works for me, so what are we waiting for, lets go to Water 7." Luffy said continuing to walk
"Aren't you forgetting the gold?" Nami said
Uhhh?" Luffy said
(5 Minutes Later)
Ussop and Luffy were now dragging the bag full of gold on a cart towards the station.
"Be sure to have that mast fix by the time we get back Zoro!" Ussop said
"Be careful out there Nami-swan!" Sanji said waving goodbye
"Oh man, I missed my chance to go with them." Chopper said bummed out
"You can go with me a little bit later if you want." Robin said
"Really? can we go to a bookstore?" Chopper said
"Yes of course." Robin said smiling
"How about you Cray do you wanna join us?" Chopper said
"Sure, I'm gonna get some stuff ready." Cray said heading inside the ship. as Cray went towards his little work area, he grabbed his Backpack and art gear, and headed out.
"HEY EVERYONE SOME PIRATES ARE CAUSING A RUCKUS AT DOCK ONE!" A man yelled
"WHAT!? THATS NOT GOOD!" Another man said
"Come on we got to check this out." The man said riding on his boat.
(Dock 1)
"Sorry but your not making any sense." A man smoking a cigar working on a piece of wood along with another group of Shipwrights in the area, he was wearing a Yellow shirt with white concentration circles in the middle while also wearing a Denim Jacket with Flame Detail, along with a pair of goggles hanging from his head. His name was Paulie.
as he was talking to The Captain of a Pirate crew, there Captain had two long bottom canine teeth while wearing a Spherical helmet with a crescent moon shaped piece in the front, along with his Crew wearing what looked like Samurai helmets.
"Do you need me to spell it out for you, fine then, sooooo, you fixed up our ship, sooo I got to thinking, and no matter how much I looked at it and no matter how many time i turned our little deal around in my head, I still felt you were charging me way to much." The Captain said
"Your interrupting our job." Paulie said still working.
"Heres the deal, I'm not going pay a single Beri the work you did." the Captain said laughing along with his crew
"Thanks for the repairs they were great, so kind of you to do that for free.." One member of the Pirate crew said laughing.
"As the Pirates were laughing two individual started to walk to the front of the sidelines. A man wearing a orange and red striped suit with a small white rat in his suit shirt pocket, the other one was woman dressed kind of like a secretary with Blonde hair and Glasses carrying a clipboard with a wanted poster.
"Kalifa do you know whats going on?" the man said
"Yes Mr Iceberg, those pirates are Dock 1 customers, but now that the works done there refusing to pay...sexual harassment." Kalifa said adjusting her glasses
"Wow, maybe it is." Iceberg said
"Sir we take our job very seriously its not very wise to talk down our shipwrights like that. " Paulie said causally still working
As the pirates continued to laugh one of the Shipwrights, who had a long scales Tattoo Stretching down his arm and missing half of his Pinky Finger, Carrying a large plank of wood and as he walked past the Pirates, he quickly Swinged it across the Captains head making it look like an Accident.. The Captain then staggered forward and collapsed on the ground shocking his crew
"CAPTAIN!?" A Crew member yelled out
"Whoopsssss, Ssssssorry." the man said causally looking at the pirate crew.
"HEY WATCH WHERE YOU CARRYING THAT THING YOU JERK YOU JUST KNOCKED OUT OUR..OWWWWW!.."
suddenly another Shipwright who had long nose like Ussop but square shaped came and Planted a sharp saw right into the Crew members back
"Opps. sorry." the man said
"HEY YOU PUNKS TRYING TO PICK A FIGHT! WHO DO YOU GUYS THINK YOU ARE!?" The crew Ready to attack only for the rest of the shipwrights to join in the fight pretty much wiping the floor with every single one of them.
"Hey have we ever tested this new Cannon yet?"
"No but I think now would be the best time."
"DAMN YOU YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS WILL BE BA.."
Suddenly the Pirate Crew was then Blown away by the Cannon, as they all of them were flying in there and out of Dock 1
"This Our Shipyard, don't you forget it." Paulie said too the unconscious captain. that was surrounded by the others.
(With Cray, Robin, and Chopper)
"Its says here were at the back street shopping district." Robin said looking at a posted map on the wall
"Seems awfully crowded for a back street if you ask me." Chopper said
"I don't know with a city surrounded and separated by water like this I'm not surprised, it must be a huge pain in the ass to traverse." Cray said trying to stay away from the edge of the deep Canal that was running across the whole city.
"Were Lucky that theirs plenty of places to walk around though." Chopper said
"they must've put a lot in the towns Design." Robin said
"You said it, the buildings and Structures that make it fit perfectly with this Canal running through it, it must've took them a long time." Cray said
as they were walking down the Backstreet they noticed a lot of people were wearing strange masks all around and many of the men that were there started to stare at Robin.
"Ohh would you look at that!"
"What a Beautiful Woman."
"She's Gorgeous a once in a lifetime beauty!"
"Ugh, as if having to deal with One Sanji was bad enough." Cray said cringing
Robin just started to chuckle.
"Why do you think all these people are wearing these Strange masks there kind of starting to freak me out." Chopper said
"It seems the people take the sea train to Sunfalgo island where they hold a costume carnival everyday, They stop by here to get custom made masks." Robin said
"How would you know that? we barely just got here?" cray said
"A lot of the people walking by are talking about it." Robin said
"Oh do you hear everything they say?" Chopper said
"I can't help it, ever since I was young I made it a habit to keep a critical eye and ear on my environment." Robin said looking around
"Really? that's cool." Chopper said
"STEP RIGHT UP! COME AND GET YOUR LIMITED ADDITION CUSTOM MADE MASKS MADE BY THE ONE AND ONLY IZA! THIS CITIES GREAT WATER PAINTER!" A Man yelled out behind a Mask booth.
"Iza? isn't that the name of a woman that Kokoro mentioned?" Chopper said remembering
"Yeah that's right?! She said that was the name of the owner of the Art Gallery thats here in this city, Hey you guys go on ahead, I'll catch up with you guys later, I gotta find out where that place is at." Cray said
"Oh well okay Cray see you back at the ship!" Chopper said walking off with Robin
Cray then walked towards the Mask Stand.
"Hello Young man have you come to buy a custom made mask?" the man said
"Actually I was hoping that you could pinpoint to me where I can find that person whose made those masks and her Art Gallery, I can't seem to find it Anywhere." Cray said
"Oh so your looking for the Water Art Gallery huh well you won't find it all the way down here, its way in the higher parts of the City." The Man said
"Well do you know were I can find the person who runs it?" Cray said
"Iza? She comes down here from time to time, she likes to Deep sea Dive here making Paintings of the much lower parts of the city, if your looking for her I would check the higher Districts, here this should help you clarify on where you need to go" The man said handing him a Pamphlet that had directions on where the Art Gallery is.
"Wow thanks. " Cray said walking off.
As Cray was traversing the City he couldn't help but feel that he was getting even more lost.
"Ugh I must be getting close to that Art Gallery by now." Cray said looking at the map, as he was walking he then noticed something quickly pass over him high in the air. as he looked up, he saw some guy gliding through the air.
"What in the world?" Cray said oddly
"HEY GET BACK HERE!" Someone yelled
Cray looked on and noticed a few guys with swords, chasing after someone
"NO THIS IS ONE OF IZA'S GREATEST WORKS YOU CAN"T HAVE IT!" the Creature said
Cray looked and noticed that it was a small animal wearing wearing Purple shorts and a Blue jacket it looked like a kind of dog Creature but instead of an actual Dog Tail his Tail looked liked the end of a Paintbrush. The Creature then put his tail down making it drag across the floor as it did it left yellow Streaks as he ran and as he did the Pirates then started to slip on it making most of them fall over.
"SOMEBODY HELP!" The creature yelled
Just as soon as one of the Men came to jump at him, A Colored then Hit the man Square on the face.
"Dammit that hurt." the man said holding his broken nose looking at Cray.
"Why don't you start picking on someone your own size." Cray said
The Creature then looked at Cray with Surprise
"You just go ahead and run I'll take of these Punks." Cray said
"The Creature then started to run off with the painting.
"You Just cost us a lot of money you Brat." The man said taking out his sword along with the rest of the men.
There you have it another Chapter done, please leave a review and a like and tell what you think so far. Also with Final Fantasy 15 around the corner I will be pretty busy to write this story but don't worry it won't be forever, Bye for now.
