Several days had passed, and while the government kept Cypher-Pol as a whole undiscovered, they couldn't let these pirates out scott free. Antoinette, Giovanni's second wife and currently queen of Cleomoria, waved down an albatross overhead, which brought down a newspaper. She joyfully gave it some beli and pulled open the paper. "Maybe I'll finally see news on my precious step-daughter~ she must be so scared out there all alone after leaving so suddenly-" she nearly choked on her spit. "WHAT DID SHE DO!?"
A wanted poster showing Harmony eating an apple was posted on a full page. The reason is stated to be "destruction of government property", and was wanted dead or alive for 10,000,000 beli, one of the higher starting bounties in the pirate world. This alone put the Melody Pirates on the map, but nobody on the crew was spared.
Petrian walked inside his sleeping quarters with the newspaper, where the pink rabbit mink was doodling on a paper. He read through for a second, and stopped. "Oh crap-" The mink looked over to him. "What?" He showed her a page. "Lucky, isn't that..." She grabbed the page, and almost squealed. "I found him! So the Melody Pirates took my brother! I'll show them what for!" Minx of the Melody Pirates, his picture one of him spinning a dagger, bounty of 9,500,000.
A black haired girl, her eyes orange and had a unique look; as if her pupils were the event horizon in a black hole. She was reading through and stopped at Julio's, a picture of him shooting at a seagull trying to steal his sandwich. She scoffed at his 9,550,000 and threw the paper away into a nearby trash can. The ship she was on made an announcement. "One day to Tropicania, One week to Alabasta." She went back to watching the ocean outside. 'One week...'
Harmony read through the paper as she layed on the same table in Velur's inn as last time as she operated on her. "Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase?~" Velur sighed, "No, I ain't telling you my fruits name." Harmony pouted, "Fine... wow we got some hefty bounties~" Julio nodded, "Makes sense. Pretty sure we messed up some secret government base. Surprised they aren't higher." Velur added, "Well, they probably want it to stay a secret. Too high a jump and it shows something else is up." Minx patted Kiwi's head, squishing it down making him laugh.
"Wait, what about mine?" Kasai asked. Harmony turned to Kasai's, and there was a picture of him in his hybrid form; bounty was 9,600,000. "Ha! Looks like I'm the second best!" Minx clapped, genuinely smiling. "Good job Kasai~" Julio glared at him, accepting the challenge. "Welp, y'all fixed up. I ain't comin' with so you should definitely find a doctor soon." Harmony nodded, and Kasai started bouncing in place. "Can we go actually see Cooktopia now!?~"