As the tentacle tightened its grip on the ship, a monstrous sea king appeared from the water. Due to the dim light, only fragments of his scales shimmered.
"Can I ta-"
"Goddamn it Tim Tim! NO, you can't tame it! That's the thing that destroyed our previous ship!" Jimmy shouted.
"WHAT IS THIS? I WILL SINGLE HANDEDLY TAKE ON THIS MIGHTY FISH!" Leroy started charging towards the sea king, which stood at an impressive one hundred feet. "LEEEEERRRRROOOOOYYYY!"
Screaming this, Leroy started running up the tentacle and once he'd got on top of its head, he began pummelling the sea king's head. Howling in extreme pain, the sea king loosened its grip on the ship and used its other tentacles to fling Leroy far into the distance. Before Leroy could get too far away, Nargo used his power to float Leroy back to the ship, since Leroy's belt contained traces of metal.
Although unable to physically attack the sea king, Ronin tried growling ferociously to intimidate the sea king, however, he could only manage a small whimper which, for a second, made the sea king laugh somehow. Its laughter was cut short when Tim Tim fired his short bow straight into one of its eyes.
Whilst all this was going on Whatz D Face was trying to steer the ship back on track with a great deal of difficulty, despite his newfound strength. Belsari started firing up her weapon which instantly caught the vision of Jimmy.
"Oh no! DON'T!"
Too late. Belsari fired her weapon but neither flames nor napalm exploded from her barrel. Instead, a cylindrical vial exited and embedded itself into the sea king's forehead. Suddenly, mist and smoke started to spew from the vial, slowly removing the ship from the sea king's vision. With the wind finally picking up, the sails were put down, and they sailed speedily away from the gigantic monstrosity before it could recover.
After about half an hour, it was decided the coast was clear. Vaeg woke from his nap to see that the front of the boat was damaged and the others were sat cheerily drinking.
"Where the fuck were you?" Nargo questioned Vaeg.
"I was sleeping, what else do you think I was doing?"
"What the fuck were you sleeping on? We have no furniture."
"My gracious patient offered wholeheartedly to be a bed."
"Who the fuck cares anymore? Let's drink!"
"Sure."
After a while, Barbosa asked everyone, "So, why is everyone travelling?"
Jenkins spoke first, "Me and Leroy are hunting someone on the Grand Line. However, that bastard Ezekiel was taking too long to get enough supplies and troops for it. So now we are here with you guys, a much nicer crew, I guess."
"I'm trying to find my fucking family. Only lead I have is that the twat who took them has a ginger moustache tattooed to his arm." Nargo said.
The crew withheld their laughs at the strange clue.
Jimmy spoke up next, "I'm searching for a creature that engulfed my entire island."
"Me and Ronin are the sole survivors of essentially a massacre on my island. Marines killed them and took away lots of animals for unknown reasons. All I want is co-existence between wildlife and humans." Tim Tim explained.
"Don't you want to find who fucking ordered the decimation?" Nargo asked.
"There's no point, it won't bring them back." Tim Tim started tearing up subtly, "I've already killed hi..."
The crew were taken aback by the seriousness of the usually bubbly, shy boy. His words were ice-cold, and despite tears rolling down his face, they weren't of sadness, but of pure rage.
Vaeg cut in, "Oh shut up you swabbie! Everyone loses shit; your losses don't mean anything. It's all worthless in the end, and even if it wasn't, tragedy should be exclusively joked about, because life's not sad, life is funny. We don't have time for your snivelling, little boy, so you better man up before the world swallows you whole and spits you back out."
"Vaeg don't you think you're being a bit harsh on him." Jimmy intervened.
"It's DOCTOR Vaeg! And let me get this straight. We aren't friends. Just remember that when I laugh at your deaths."
With this Vaeg quickly moved to the lower deck to collect some more alcohol.
Barbosa eventually broke the silence and recounted his reason for travelling, "I'm being hunted by marines, so I want to explore and have adventures, like my father, before I'm captured or dead."
The group indicated for Belsari to speak, but she implied that she wasn't comfortable in discussing her reason for travelling. Whatz D Face was similar, but he mentioned something about his precious queen and him missing her. Other than that, when Vaeg returned, the atmosphere had already improved a bit so the party, albeit with some awkwardness, continued talking about trivial things until a white sail, dawning the marine logo crept up on them.
Barbosa noticed before it arrived next to them and told everyone. Vaeg scurried to his quarters to confirm Lt. Dawn was still gagged in the corner of his room and returned to the top deck. Due to it being the middle of the night, no-one could clearly see anyone's face.
"I, Lt. Brigand, am the commander of this marine ship and I request that you turn on some method of lighting so we can clearly see your faces."
"Why the check up Lt. Brigand?" Jimmy asked, trying to stall.
"There have been some incidents on Swallow Island that we are currently investigating. We would like your immediate co-operation to show your faces, otherwise we will have to go through more extreme measures."
"Barbosa, leg it up the mast." Belsari whispered loudly.
"No-one is to move an inch!" but as the Lieutenant said this, Barbosa, with his insane speed and agility, got up the mast without anyone noticing.
Nargo snuck off to stand on top of the captain's quarters. As Jimmy was stalling, Nargo audaciously started moving their entire stock of cannonballs from their ship to his ship with his powers. Unbelievably, no-one noticed or suspected a thing.
Whilst this was happening, Whatz D Face blended into the shadows, seemingly invisible, and jumped the three-metre gap between the ships and observed the surroundings. There was a total of five men including the lieutenant. Easy pickings. Leroy was currently sleeping below deck, but he wasn't required to beat what the party described now as "Small Fry".
"Doctor Vaeg, is the "special" patient secured?" Jimmy asked quietly.
"Wouldn't you like to know CO-captain Jimbo?"
"I'm being serious Vaeg."
"Don't worry my pet, no sorry, patient is currently in an induced comatose state for roughly one hour."
"Um... Mister Lt. Brigand, what if we have no lighting?" Tim Tim asked, trying to sound innocent.
"Don't be silly child! Turn the lights on now before we board!" Brigand snapped.
"That's not a very nice tone. Have I angered you Mister Lt. Brigand? I honestly didn't mean to."
"Child, turn the lights on NOW!"
"Before you're pushed to your death, or maybe mauled by my beast, let me tell you something. I'm not a child."
"Wait, wha-"
All the preparations were completed. And so the fun began. Whatz D Face shoved the lieutenant with impressive strength and Brigand fell into the ocean. Whatz D Face then transformed into a monstrous creature which, momentarily, made everyone, except Vaeg, turn white with fear. No-one had witnessed his full transformation and it was truly terrifying at first glance.
Next, Whatz D Face unhinged his jaws and tore out two petrified marines' throats, blood painting the deck red. The two other marines backed off. Despite the low visibility, Jenkins fired his sniper rifle straight into one of the marines' forehead. Nargo sent one of the cannonballs flying towards the last marine, who decided to take his chances jumping overboard.
Belsari and Tim Tim finished off Brigand who was flopping around in the water. Tim Tim fired a bullet straight into his shoulder whilst Belsari used her flintlock pistol to fire another bullet into his other shoulder.
Confirming that he had drowned the crew ransacked the marine ship. They took the sails, cannons and paint before allowing Belsari to set the marine ship alight. Her menacing pyromaniac cackle echoed into the night sky. Little did they know, a survivor swam ashore and rushed to the nearest marine base.
With the new paint, which was coincidentally black, the crew created a drunken masterpiece of a Jolly Roger. It had a generic skull with a harpoon going through it diagonally, whilst being surrounded by a circle of chains.
After dealing with the marines easily, and drunk, because being heavily drunk somehow enhanced the crew's chemistry greatly, the crew laid on the floor of the ship and passed out exhausted. When morning awoke the party, all of them complaining of hangovers, land appeared over the horizon.
"LAND ASS-HOY!" Nargo and Leroy screamed together.
"You know it's land ahoy, right?" Jimmy said.
"I'm the captain, so I can say what I want." Nargo said.
"CO-captain!" Jimmy reminded him.
"What are you all talking about? I'm the captain!" Vaeg interjected.
"Please don't start this again." Tim Tim pleaded.
"Shut up bucket boy!" Vaeg and Nargo shouted.
Ronin who was sleeping below deck since the sea king fight, finally plodded up to the top deck to see land fast approaching. He let out a thankful and excited howl which actually quietened everyone's arguing.
Another day, another adventure.