One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda
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OCs belong to me.
-Chapter Forty-Six-
"Mr. Three!" Luffy angrily shouted the moment he spotted the man.
"Yeah, what he said" Usopp nodded as he looked towards me.
"Isn't he the guy that owned that ship you all were worried about back when we first arrived here in Alabasta?" I asked.
"Uh-huh" Nami and Usopp nodded.
"Mr. Three? What was he doing in the belly of a Banana Gator?" Vivi asked, baffled by this sudden turn of events—not having expected one of the gators to just cough up an apparent enemy of ours.
"I'm alive again...I thought I was a goner..." Mr. Three desperately gasped as he shakily stood, wiping at his mouth with his arm before taking in large gulps of air as if he had been deprived of it for so long that he needed to replenish his lungs.
"Uh...interesting hairstyle you got that" I raised an amused eyebrow as his hair sprung up into the shape of a three.
"Stupid Crocodile, you thought you could get rid of me? But you didn't try hard enough—the moment I was swallowed, I used the last of my powers to create that Wax Wax Ball," he monologued mainly to himself, "that was how I survived" he grinned, wax now dripping from his fingertips as he pointed in a random direction as if expecting someone to be standing there. Instead, he found a key dangling from a piece of debris. "A key?" he questioned, tilting his head as he curiously picked it up and started to examine it. It was at that point that Nami, Usopp, and Luffy started to scream in an attempt to catch the man's attention.
"Ah! Not you guys again!" he screamed when he finally noticed them before owlishly blinking. "Wait...now I see what's happening here" he grinned, looking between the key in his hand and the cage we were trapped in with a look of understanding.
"Mr. Three, I presume" Sanji said, casually strolling right up to the man.
"How do you know who I was?!" Mr. Three jumped, grabbing his chest in surprise.
"Well, your hair gave it away" Sanji pointed out. "I'll take the key—toss it here" he said, now holding out his hand as if he expected the man to comply.
"Sure thing, here it goes" Mr. Three slyly grinned before twisting on his heel and tossing the key between a bunch of Banana Gators.
"Hey!" Sanji snapped in irritation.
"I don't know who you are, but if you want the Straw Hats out, you're no friend of mine" Mr. Three stated as he turned back to face the blond. "You want the key—go find it!" he sneered. "Good luck, you'll need it with all those alligators around—trust me, I know" he laughed.
"Jerk!" Sanji growled.
"Better find it soon, that water's rising" the wax man simply mocked.
"That bastard!" Zoro growled.
"That was a dirty move, even for that creep!" Luffy angrily huffed.
"Tell me about it, quite a petty thing to do out of hatred towards us..." I grumbled, doubting that he actually did it because he was still loyal to Crocodile. No, I doubt anyone would be stupid enough to continue helping the person that had tried to kill them...well, I could only assume that's what he was implying earlier when he was monologuing to himself.
"We're running out of time, hurry!" Nami anxiously stressed.
"Lousy good-for-nothing wax guy!" Sanji sneered, though none of his insults seemed to get to Mr. Three as he boredly examined his nails—unbothered by the blonde's vicious tongue.
"Wait a minute, Sanji, he might be good for something" Usopp suddenly piped up. "Like using his wax powers to make a key" he suggested.
"Oh! That's a great idea" I perked up.
"You're right" Sanji grinned, causing Mr. Three to shrink back in fear once he saw the blond starting to approach.
-A Few Minutes Later-
"Nice work, candle man—now, there are two more things to do" Sanji said, patting a very beaten-up Mr. Three's back as he unlocked the cage door for us before violently kicking him into a wall and knocking him right out. "Let's go, hurry" he motioned.
"Right, we got to stop the Rebels before they attack Alubarna—we should be able to get through that hallway" Nami nodded, gesturing towards the long hallway that Crocodile and Miss All Sunday had originally planned on leaving through.
"There's a problem with that" Vivi suddenly pointed. "Namely dozens of Banana Gators."
"Nah, I think they have that problem handled pretty well" I said, dismissively waving off her concern.
"Huh?" Vivi questioned as she turned around.
"That's it?! I can take on hundreds of these weird bananas!" Luffy shouted at the top of his lungs as he and Zoro finished off the last of the gators that had entered the room.
"Um...that problem's solved" Nami sweat dropped.
"And I had so much trouble with at least one of them..." Vivi gloomily mumbled.
"No, don't be so hard on yourself, those two just have crazy abnormal strength" Usopp said in an attempt to comfort her.
"He's right—you did your best against the one you fought, so there's no need to be upset about those two's crazy strength" I nodded.
"Yeah! I'd be even stronger if I wasn't soaked right now!" Luffy boasted before screaming in shock as the walls finally started to crack and fall apart, letting even more of the windows break which in return allowed more water to flood into the room. "Ah! This place is falling apart!" he shouted.
"Yeah, we can see that!" Sanji snapped.
"Oh no! The passageway is crumbling too!" Usopp cried the moment he saw that the ceiling to the passageway was starting to crumble and fall apart which caused debris to crash down and for even more water to come flooding in.
"We got to get out of here, right now!" Sanji shouted.
"How?" I asked. "The passageway is useless to us now and it would take forever for all of us to climb up those stairs!" I pointed out.
"Well, we have to do something, or else we're going to be submerged!" Usopp cried before screaming as the room finally became completely submerged underwater. Sucking in a deep breath before we were completely submerged, we were soon swept away. I could barely make out the others through the murky water as I started to swim, legs kicking me upward as I tried to ignore the tight feeling slowly starting to grow within my chest. Despite not being submerged for that long, I could already feel how my lungs starting to beg for air. With a sharp gasp, I burst through the water's surface.
"If there's one thing I can thank that man for, it'll be all the forced swimming and underwater session...even if I sucked horribly at that last one..." I panted as I swam towards the bank and crawled back onto shore. Flopping down, I sprawled myself out on the ground in exhaustion—my chest heaving as I closed my eyes for a minute and listened to the faint whispers that clawed their way to the front of my mind.
"She's only four—why are you holding her under the water like that?!"
"Be quiet! Since she's the only disappointment that I deem worthy enough to take my place, she needs to learn quickly how to hold her breath beneath the water—this world is covered in water and she'd only be a hindrance to her fellow Marines if she can't swim or even handle being underwater for long periods of time. Ships sink all the time, one must be prepared for anything when out at sea."
"You're going to kill her! I'm the oldest—why can't you just pick me to be your successor like everyone keeps telling you too?! All you need is someone to take your place once they turn twenty, right? I can do it!"
"Do not question me, boy! You know I don't want an embarrassment such as yourself representing the family's name. It doesn't help that you're all nothing but disappointments, though. Unfortunately, your mother refuses to bear another child...damn whore says it'll ruin her figure if she has any more."
"Let her up now! Can't you see that she's struggling? She's drowning!"
"It's disgusting how none of you are worthy of this family's name—you're all nothing more than pathetic whelps. At least this little bitch knows how to listen even if she does openly defy me from time to time—but don't you worry, I'll break her of that nasty habit sooner or later."
"Stop your rambling, old bastard! Just let her up already!"
"Hey, you alive there, Luffy?" my vision blurred before snapping back into focus the second I heard Sanji's voice. Pushing myself up into a seated position, I watch as the blond dragged our captain out of the water and onto shore...only to immediately drop him the minute he spotted me. "Skylar, my sweet! Are you alright?" he asked as I blankly stared up at him before giving him a strained, yet crooked smile.
"Uh...yeah...but I think you should be more focused on Luffy right now" I answered, wiping my hands across my face so it looked like I was wiping away the water that was streaming down it and not at the stray tears that had started to leak from my eyes.
"Usopp, please wake up" Vivi begged as she and Nami tried their best to pull the sharpshooter ashore.
"Come on, just kick your legs or something! Hey, help us pull you out of here!" Nami angrily snapped, frustrated by the pirates lack of effort in helping them help him.
"Geez, why would a pirate want Devil Fruit powers if it means he can't swim?" Sanji questioned as now he stared down at Luffy who was still trying to recover.
"Power?" I guessed with a shrug.
"What? Smoker?" Sanji frowned the second Zoro burst from the water's surface before pulling both Smoker and himself onto dry land. "Hey, Zoro, what are you doing?" he asked, clearly annoyed with the swordsman. "In case you forgot, that guy's our enemy" he pointed out.
"Back off—I didn't want to do it, but he was about to die, that's all..." Zoro irritably grumbled.
"I think it's rather sweet that you helped him despite us being enemies and all that" I smiled, causing the swordsman to blush a little.
"I told you, I didn't want to do it to begin with..." he silently huffed.
"Whatever, we got to get moving, guys—we've lost too much time already" Sanji dismissive waved just as Smoker started to wake up, loudly coughing up water as he sat up on his hands and knees. "Vivi, can we still make it?" he asked, ignoring the Marine Captain and looking towards the princess.
"I don't know" she responded, worrying her lower lip as she wrung out her clothes.
"Hey, Nami, you still have that perfume I bought you?" Sanji suddenly asked.
"Ugh...not that stuff..." I groaned with the roll of my eyes, now gathering up my hair and wringing it out.
"Huh? Yeah, but why?" Nami asked, pulling out the small bottle of perfume that the blond had bought her before our adventure through the desert.
"Put some on, please" Sanji requested.
"Okay?" Nami frowned before spraying some of the perfume on her neck, causing my nose to twitch the moment I caught a whiff of it.
"Aw! Just one whiff of it makes me swoon like a schoolboy in love!" Sanji swooned as I sneezed.
"Not to mention you act like an idiot..." Zoro grumbled, rolling his eyes.
"Just one whiff of that stuff and my sinus' go nuts" I loudly sniffed as Vivi comfortably patted my back when I sneezed once again.
"There, there" she said with each pat.
"Roronoa..." Smoker grumbled, suddenly swinging his Jitte towards the swordsman who effortlessly blocked it. "Why did you save my life?" he frowned.
"All I did was follow my captain's orders, that's it, so I wouldn't read too much into it if I were you" Zoro simply responded as he pushed the man's Jitte away. "It was one of his crazy whims, pay him no mind..." he muttered.
"And you wouldn't have any problems with me carrying out my duties and arresting you, right?" Smoker asked.
"What?" I frowned. "He just saved your life, the least you could do is be fair enough to give us a head start in running or at the very least let us off the hook just this once" I scolded.
"See, I knew this was a bad idea—this is what you get for saving a Marine!" Sanji leered.
"Yeah, alright, full speed to Alubarna!" Usopp suddenly shouted as he finally woke up.
"Where's Crocodile?! Let me at him!" Luffy screamed upon waking up as well, frantically looking left and right as if expecting the Warlord to be here.
"Finally awake, huh?" I chuckled as I watched how they both started to act all tough.
"Finally, why couldn't they have woken up when we were dragging their butts back on land?" Nami grumbled.
"Huh—you want some of this? Bring it on!" Luffy shouted the second he caught sight of Smoker...although it seems the tough act Usopp was putting up instantly melted away the minute he saw the Marine Captain as he opted to scream in fear instead of trying to challenge the man like Luffy was.
"It's Smoker!" he cried out in a panic. "Luffy, forget it—let's just get out of here! Come on!" he tearfully begged.
A/N: Enjoy
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