Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for Attacks
Steve's POV
"Leave the finding the shipwright to me." Sanji said "I'll find the best girl for the job."
"Boo! Our shipwright needs to be big, like twenty feet tall!" Luffy yelled.
"He won't fit on the ship." Usopp told him.
"Guy or girl who cars as long as they can fix the ship." Zoro said.
"I'd prefer a man" Wyper said causing all of us to give him a look "That's not what I mean, it's just that if we get another woman the cook is gonna horde more food for them and the rest of us will starve."
"A man it is." We all said.
"What the hell!" Sanji yelled.
"We're here!" Rose yelled.
We went to the front of the ship and saw Water Seven. The city was huge. It had multiple levels and had a huge fountain in the center. While we all marveled at the appearance of the metropolis Nami distributed money so we'd have spending cash.
"If you're pirates you should go in around the back." A man on a small dingy told us.
Half the city was underwater. Robin explained that this place was built on a sunken island so the water rose over houses.
"This is quickly becoming my new favorite stop." I said.
We docked the ship on a small peninsula just outside of town. Once Sanji told them no one would attack us since we were paying customers Luffy and Usopp tried to run off.
"Hold it you two." Nami said grabbing their collars "You're coming with me. We need to see this 'Iceberg' about fixing the ship, and we need to trade the gold in."
"I'm coming too." I told her.
Before we left Rose and Zoro said they'd watch the ship. Chopper and Robin were going shopping.
"I've gotta get food. Ugly Duckling you're coming to help." Sanji said looking a Wyper.
"Who you calling an Ugly Duck!"
"If the wings fit!"
We just walked off leaving those two to settle their own problem.
"Sure it was smart to leave them like that?" Nami asked.
"They'll be fine…hopefully."
"Well then let's get to the exchange." Nami said.
Usopp thought that we'd be better off waiting till after we hit up the shipyard. Nami explained that carrying around all the gold would make us more of a target then just holding some cases of paper bills.
"Plus paper is a lot lighter." I told him.
"Yeah you'll like that Usopp, especially since you and Steve will be the ones carrying it."
We got to the entrance of the city and found a place with a sign for 'Bull Rentals' apparently this was a place to rent some kind of creature to pull you around the city, since the city was mostly water we were going to need a ride.
"If there are four of you two Yagara bulls will suffice, but with that bag you may need a third." The salesman said.
"Two cheaper we'll make it work." Nami told him.
"Cheapskate." I mumbled.
The man said we could pick out our own Yagara, they kinda looked like seahorses. Since one of them licked Luffy that was the one we we're stuck with. After learning our bag was full of gold the man tried to up the price but since we had Nami with us we got out of that problem without too much argument. He told us that we needed to head to the exchange in the center of the city to get all the gold converted for paper money. We hopped on the animals and headed off to the exchange. I rode with Luffy and the bag of gold while Nami and Usopp rode together.
"This is fun! These things are so cool, can we keep it?" Luffy asked,
"No we can't keep it, and sit still if you fall in you'll drown." I told him.
The fish were pretty smart, they knew all the shortcuts in town and got us to the market faster than if we had been the ones steering. We ended up in the market and Luffy stopped at every food stand in the place. While he was gorging himself I noticed a lot of people walking around in masks.
What an odd fashion choice.
We had to take a water elevator up to get to a different level of the city. Luffy really liked this place since everything used water to work; he was really excited to be here. We got to the exchange and traded all the gold in for Beli. The man went to go get us the cash for our gold but Nami thought he was ripping us off.
"Listen up; I have three things to say. First these two combined have a 180 million Beli bounty." Luffy and I smiled when she mentioned us "Second I don't like your offer, and third if you lie again my friend will string you up right here."
The man quickly wrote down a different value and went to get the money.
"300 million!"
We broke the money up into three equal parts of 100 million. Luffy, Usopp and I each took a briefcase. After Luffy nearly lost a case in the water Usopp was forced to carry two to avoid any more accidents. We headed to dock number one to ask Mr. Iceberg about fixing our ship.
"So do we just walk in or what?"
Luffy tried jumping the fence but got pushed back by Usopp…or a guy that looked a lot like him.
"Let's talk outside." The man jumped over to talk to us "Sorry employees only on that side, what can I do for you fine folks today."
"Hi Usopp." Luffy smiled.
"I'm right here!"
"Really Luffy you can't even recognize your own crew." I groaned.
Nami told the man we wanted to meet Iceberg and handed him the letter.
"Ah a recommendation from Mrs. Kokoro" The man said.
"Do you know Iceberg?" Nami asked.
"Of course Mr. Iceberg is the Mayor of Water Seven. He's also the president of the Galley-La Company and manager of the sea train. He's a very busy man." He said starting to do some stretches "Where's your ship?"
"On the peninsula, that way." Luffy told him.
"I'll go take a look that way you'll have a price in mind for when you meet Iceberg."
The man broke into a sprint and ran straight up a wall.
How's he run so fast? I wish I was that fast.
"We all stood there slack jawed.
"Don't worry he does this all the time. He's a foreman of Dock one. Kaku." We turned to see a middle-aged man in a suit
Rose's POV
I was relaxing in up in the crow's nest when I heard some commotion from down below. I looked down and saw a group of men creeping towards Zoro.
"May I help you gentlemen?" I yelled down waking Zoro.
They looked pretty surprised I guess they thought it was only Zoro.
Zoro opened his eyes and didn't look happy. "Who the hell are you?"
"We're bounty hunters and we're gonna take both your bounties. People tremble at the mention of our name, we're the Franky Family!"
I jumped off the mast and took down two men on as I hit the floor.
"Hawk Wave!" the rest fell as Zoro swung at them with his swords.
They stood back up and came at us again.
"Just get them off the ship." I told him.
"Fine." He said pushing the back of his swords against my daggers.
"Double Tatsumaki!" the whirlwind blew the men out to sea and off our ship.
"How boring." Zoro mumbled returning to his seat.
"Stay awake and things like this won't happen." I told him
Zoro went back to sleep despite my request and I climbed back up to the crow's nest. Another hour past when once again I heard talking beneath me.
"Who the hell are you!?" Zoro asked.
I jumped down and nearly broke through the floor to find a guy who looked a lot like Usopp standing there.
"Calm down I'm here to inspect the ship, your friends sent me."
"Oh okay then, have a look around." I told the man.
Then man took his time and looked at every nook and cranny of the ship. He even had to pull up a few floor boards to get a look and the underside.
"Oh dear."
That doesn't sound good.
Steve's POV
The man introduced himself as Iceberg and the woman accompanying him was his secretary Kalifa. They had scoped us out because they knew the number of people on our crew and our bounty. The man was the mayor of the city but he was pretty lax, he canceled a dozen appointments right in front of us.
"So this is the guy that old lady talked about huh? He doesn't seem like a good mayor." Luffy said.
"Guess so." Nami to him.
The secretary kicked at us for being insulting. I pulled Usopp to the ground to avoid the attack. She quickly apologized for her outburst. After things calmed down Nami gave Iceberg the letter. He offered to fix the ship and give us a tour of his shipyard.
"Usopp were going in don't forget your portion of the money." I yelled.
"AHHH!" we turned around to see what the long nose was screaming about and saw we were getting robbed in broad daylight.
Some guy with a pet bird told us to wait and he'd take care of it. A man jumped down from the bridge and threw the men off the bulls and brought them back around. Iceberg said that this guy worked for him. The man with a pigeon went over and pulled the man who got our money back over to us and made him return it.
"Jeez Lucci relax I said I give it back." The man grumbled.
The pigeon responded to the man "You tried to use these people's money to pay your debts, you're despicable Paulie."
A ventriloquist.
Kalifa explained that the men who stole our money were a group called the Franky Family, local bounty hunters and dismantlers.
"They didn't seem too tough." I told Iceberg.
"They might not have been but you should never underestimate Franky himself."
After he returned our money Paulie got in a fight with Lucci, the pigeon guy, the two had a tussle in the street before Iceberg was able to get them to settle down.
The second Paulie took a look at Nami and freaked out "Put some clothes on you indecent girl!"
"Hey back off buddy. She can wear what she wants." I told him.
Iceberg took us inside and gave us the grand tour of his shipyard, he was incredibly popular with all the workers. Luffy was so impressed he asked the man if he would be our shipwright.
He told the boy no but Luffy asked him something different "If you won't do you care if I find someone who works here to come with us?"
"I don't know if you'll find one who's willing but if you do you're welcome to take them with you."
The long nosed man from before landed.
"Did you check the ship?" Nami asked "Where'd Usopp go, I guess it doesn't matter he left the money."
"Luffy get over here!" I yelled "So give it to us straight how much is this gonna cost us?"
"You ship has significant damage you must have been on quite the journey."
"We have, so how much is it gonna cost, we have plenty of money" Luffy told him "How long will it take?"
"No, the truth is…not even we can fix your ship. Even if we patched it to the best of our abilities you wouldn't make it to the next island."
What…This can't be the end. You not gonna die…are you Merry?
AN
Thank you for reading. Feedback is appreciated. Feel free to message me any questions or concerns.
Till Next Time!