"strawberry is red" - talking
'strawberry is red' - thinking
"STRAWBERRY IS RED" - shouting from anything /angry
*swish* - sounds
[strawberry] - magic word spell
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Recap:
"I'm strong, aren't I?? You wanna defeat me, don't you?... Our fight isn't over yet! So we have to fight again!! But your friends are dead, but I'm going to be your rival forever! We have to fight again in order to decide who's the strongest!"
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The whole crew is grinning at their captain's claim. Clearly, they know what the rubber man is doing to Laboon.
"After going around the Grand Line, we'll be back for you!!" the rubber man then grins widely with a happy tune to his voice "When I came back let's fight again!"
Laboon started tearing up and howl into the sky, but this time out of happiness, finally he can stop waiting for his past crewmates, he can finally accept what happened 50 years ago because this time, he made a new friend and rival, and the captain of the strawhat pirates.
Luffy then paints Laboon's forehead by their Jolly Roger's mark, a skull with crossbones and a strawhat on it.
"Hmm.....This is good!!" content Luffy said to himself with a wide grin, clothes covered in paint of red, yellow, white, and black.
"This is the symbol of our promise to fight again!"
"Until we come back, don't remove that mark by hitting your head onto this wall understand??" Laboon makes a noise that indicates he understands.
"ALRIGHT!!" Luffy shouted in satisfaction. The art is...Let's say pitifully made indeed, but it holds promise for tomorrow and friendship for the whale, something to look forward to, for that Crocus was thankful.
"Hmm? Where're those guys??" Usopp questioned the others while trying to fix the mainmast.
"Those guys? Oh, the weird duo" Nami thought out loud.
"Maybe they ran away?? I wonder who those two are?" she asked Sanji the last part.
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--Some distance away from the ship..--
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"Ms. Wednesday, what should we do now?" the prince wanna be asked the blue cotton candy-haired girl.
"Hmmm...In any case, we got to go back and report it to the boss...our estimated time of completion has long been passed" said Miss Wednesday with a thoughtful look.
"Right! That's not good, they'll make us out as traitors" said the weird prince with concern lacing his voice.
"Yes, since we don't have our weapons anymore, we'll go back to our office to start over," Ms. Wednesday said seriously to her partner.
"It can't be helped, well then..... We will...Hm? Wait... What?!" the weird prince suddenly panicked. If him patting his whole body didn't make any indication, then him furiously shrugging his coat does it.
"What's the matter??"
"It's gone..." his face getting pale by the second informed his companion.
"What? Gone??" came the confused inquiry by the girl.
--At the deck of Going Merry--
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"Hmmm? What the heck is this?" Luffy said while he picks up a rolling weird bracelet at his feet.
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--At the weird duo--
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"WHAT? YOU DROPPED THE LOG POSE?!" Ms. Wednesday exclaimed to Mr. 9.
"I'm terribly sorry Ms. Wednesday," the weird prince said while searching for the log pose via binoculars. "We can't go back to our town without it!" then he finally saw Luffy looking at it and gasp from the shock.
"As this stands....." before Ms. Wednesday could say anything else the weird price suddenly exclaims "It's the Unluckies!!"
"It's too late!" cried out Ms. Wednesday
"Mr. 13"
"Ms. Friday!!"
"Wa-wait a minute we can explain!" the weird prince tried to explain.
"We'll definitely reporting to the boss!!" hurriedly followed by the girl.
The otter and the vulture didn't listen and throw the bomb at them. The two scrambled to get away from it.
*BOOM!!*
--At the lighthouse--
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Nami is stretching her body, trying to relax her frozen body from the stress of entering the Grand Line and the stupidity of her crewmates, sitting at the outside stone table with a few chairs, just a good distance away from the lighthouse itself.
The chef is finally cooking the Elephant Bluefin Tuna.
The long-nose sniper is trying to fix the merry.
And the swordsman is still sleeping as always at his spot deck of Merry.
When Nami puts down her notebook and compass....she bloody screamed. Even Laboon goes back under the ocean from the sheer magnitude of her voice.
"What's going on? Quiet down!" Luffy complained while looking in Nami's direction.
"What's the matter Nami-swan??" the love cook said while posing differently in a matter of seconds, while balancing gigantic plates and smaller ones, how he does it? Simply put it's an anime series so who cares??
The love cook continues "If it's about the food you're worried about then it's already done!", Nami just sweatdrop at the cook's antics.
"Oh? It's mealtime??" Usopp asked the chef.
"The-the compass is broken!" Nami explained to the crew, worrying her head off. "It's not pointing in any direction!" she continued.
"Ah you're right.." Sanji said neutrality in his voice. Holding the plates of food above their heads while looking down.
"It's just spinning around!" Usopp said amazed.
"Whoaaa, that's so cool!!" of course Luffy just thought it's cool.
Crocus walked up to them, carrying more dishes, and look at the compass they're using. "Looks like you people came here unprepared... For heaven's sake, you people have a death wish??" sthe old man sighed while lecturing the youngsters in front of him.
"What?" Nami baffled at the old man's statement.
"Meshi?" Luffy is without a doubt just paying attention to the food Sanji brought down the table.
"Feed, in your case," Sanji said while looking at his glutton captain.
"I thought I told you....commonsense is lost and buried down in these seas! Your compass isn't broken, nature is" Crocus said while sighing to the group of teen pirates.
"Huh? Then it means the magnetic field..." something suddenly dawn at Nami.
"That's right, the islands of Grand Line contains different minerals that contains magnetic properties" the old man look at the young navigator and continued, "Because of that they're causing abnormalities throughout the Grand Line" while nailing that realization that's forming on Nami's head the old man continues his lecture about navigation in Grand Line. "Furthermore, the winds and the weather don't have consistency... If you're the navigator of the crew you should know how scary that means"
As the old man is explaining, in this serious air they currently have, Luffy is eating the whole tuna in the background.
"That's true, if we don't have a way to navigate through the seas, it's a hopeless cause"
"Yummy!!" Luffy is sitting at the chair dinner at hand, appreciating the said tuna while shoving down some more.
"I-I didn't know that ha ha ha... Oh well....." the navigator said while scratching the back of her head with a sheepish smile on her face.
"OI! That's bad! Are we gonna be alright??" Usopp worriedly asked the girl.
"Nami-swan you're still beautiful in my eyes even if you're clueless~" and there goes the love tornado.
"This isn't bad! It's yummy!!" Luffy said as he continues halfway empty on the food.
"HEY! YOU GUYS! JUST BE QUIET FOR A MINUTE!!" Nami screech at the morons behind her. And continue to talk with the old doctor.
"Da nosh uf da Elefunt Buufin Tuna tasht guud!!" Luffy with incoherent words said while chowing down the tuna.
"You need a log pose to navigate the Grand Line" Crocus told Nami in a serious manner.
"Log pose? Never heard of it" the confusion in her voice is thick.
"It's a special compass that can record magnetism"
"It ish a strange compash?" Luffy asked with food in his mouth.
"Yeah, its shape is unusual" blinking at the rubber captain, curious how he knew or where he gets the idea from.
"Ish it shomething like thish?" Luffy asked with still a mouthful of food in his mouth while presenting the strange bracelet he picked up a while ago.
"Yeah it's like that, without a Log Pose, it's impossible to travel around in Grand Line"
Nami looked back to his hand and back at Crocus. "I see...
But wait a minute...Luffy?"
"Hm?" The rubber man looked up and got punched by the enrage navigator while saying with shark-like teeth in her mouth. "HOW COME YOU HAVE ONE?!" the captain got thrown down with his food.
The rubber man sit up while scratching his head and explaining with a carefree attitude "Well....this is something that those two weirdos dropped on the ship"
"They did??" questioned the navigator, although she's serious you could tell her anger is simmering down.
"Yeah....Why did you hit me??" Luffy said in a complaining manner.
"Just going with the flow," Nami said, bullshittery clear on her voice.
"The flow??" the captain just got confused.
Nami picks up the Log Pose that's sitting on Luffy's hand "So this is a Log Pose, there's no dial face"
"It's known that the magnetism of the islands in the Grand Line follows a certain rule." He then told them how important a log pose is, and how to operate it.
"That is by recoding the magnetism of the two islands pulling against each other, you can find the next island" the whole crew is listening to the old man's lecture although not all of them really understand the situation clearly.
Nonetheless, Crocus continues, "Since you can't figure out the location in the sea, the magnetism that recorded in the log pose is the only thing you can depend on" And Crocus continued on...
--At the storage of Going Merry--
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After the chaos and some more moments that they thought they'll capsize, it finally settled down, the weeb is struggling once again to go out while Zoey is just as listless as before but dizzy from the rocking of the ship, before any of the two could do something about their predicaments, they finally thought of something that makes them wide awake even Zoey herself.
The girl slaps her friend's arm lightly while asking in a slightly panicked voice "...Marc,....can you make us invisible and silent? Can you use double spell now?"
Then marc told her, "Yeah I can use two words now, although it's only in the beginning stage of the level itself... Why are you asking me?"
"Are you an idiot?..... Of course, we need to be discrete... Although I've heard and saw a few pieces of the episodes, well...I can't just jump into the madness I saw in my past life. This is our reality now, you do have some commonsense right?" The girl is just as unmotivated as any other day, although her tone is even and as lazy as before it doesn't mean she wasn't annoyed at the situation.
"W-well...yeah..." the man looked away, clearly ashamed because she berated him of what he might have done earlier if he didn't hold himself back.
"Anyway.....When the time comes and they come down here again, put a spell towards us both okay?" she asked him or more like demand in a firm tone her lazy ass could manage, but because of the anxiety in her voice that can't be covered up, he could only nod, promising himself to let loose when the time is right.
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--Meanwhile up above where the strawhat pirates are--
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"FUU!! Now I'm full let's get going already!!" the rubber man contentedly sighs and leans back, patting his stomach that's housing now such great delicacies.
"DID YOU EAT THIS ALL BY YOURSELF??" yelled Sanji.
"WHOA! Even the bones are gone!" Usopp is horrified and in awe both at the same time, the two men have their eyeballs out of their sockets and stretching, the sniper towards the table and the cook towards the glutinous captain, Luffy.
"Log Pose huh... We have to take good care of it, this is our key to our journey" Nami said while looking at the compass at her left wrist.
"You damn rubber man! That was supposed to be for Nami-san... I wanted to Nami-san to.... *WHAM*... TO EAT MORE!!" the chef could only gritted his teeth, pissed, and kick his captain away to emphasize how he feels.
But then because of that kick and Luffy's momentum, their fragile log pose broke from the sheer gust of force that comes from the attack, the smiling face of Nami that looking at their broken pose...
"Ow... What're you doing?!" Luffy said while holding his head, the cook replied to him "That'll show you, you damn rubber man!"
"Sanji-kun...." Nami said her voice is neutral but clear.
"Yes, Nami-swan!" he looked back with a smile and saw Nami's face.... "BOTH OF YOU COOL YOUR HEADS OFF!!" and she kicks the two and sends them flying towards the ocean.
The captain is in distress while Sanji is still having a love tornado going on for him. Even under the water...
"Hey, wait a minute...ISN'T THAT SOMETHING IMPORTANT??" Usopp exclaimed to the now broken log pose. "Our precious Log Pose..." Nami said, and obviously worried, stressed out about their predicament.
"Don't panic, I'll give you mine, I wanna thank you too for Laboon" Crocus told the two.
The two pitiful pirate look at the old man with grateful eyes,
Laboon then goes up and throws four people that's been drowning in the ocean. Luffy, Sanji, Mr. 9, and Ms. Wednesday.
"Ahhh.... I thought I'd die....hm??" Luffy said and looked to his left, he saw the ones who pissed him off some time ago. The whale hunters.
"Hm?" Ms. Wednesday look to her right and saw the pirates.
Sanji got up and kneeled down to the woman and said "Here....Beautiful lady, take my hand.."
"My.. Thank you!" said Ms. Wednesday with a smile.
"Nice day isn't it??" Sanji softy said while ignoring his captain and the strange prince.
"Hey! We have a favor to ask...." Mr 9 weakly approaches the blonde cook.
"Huh?" Sanji, his tone of voice is different than what he used to Ms. Wednesday.
The whole crew is now looking at the duo that kneeling on the ground. Luffy sitting at the table, Sanji, Usopp, and Crocus standing while looking at them, and Nami is frowning while sitting close to the duo.
"Whisky Peak? What's that?"
"That's....we're we live uhmmm....sir.."
"What happened to your ship? Hm??" Nami interrogated the two.
"It's busted...hehe..." the female weirdo said with a sheepish laugh.
"Isn't that asking for too much? After you trying to kill the whale??" Nami with a grin on her face, clearly having an opportunity swindle the two.
"So what are you guys?" Usopp demand
"I'm a king" is the response of Mr. 9
"Liar", Nami with a tick mark on her head while pinching Mr. 9's face.
"We can't say!" Ms. Wednesday told them while looking down.
"But we need to go back to the town! We don't want to be secretive, either way...."
"The motto of the company is Mystery, after all...."
"We just can't tell you anything about it!"
"We're placing our confidence in your characters, please help us!"
"We'll definitely return the favor!"
"Don't do it, no matter what they're still dishonest people..." Crocus said his tone of voice shows how distrustful he is towards the two.
"By the way, we don't have a log pose anymore because we broke it" Nami while showing the log pose to the two. "Do you still wanna ride with us?" she asked the two with a smile on her face.
"AH? YOU BROKE IT?! THAT'S MINE YOU KNOW!!"
"HOW DARE YOU ACT STUCK UP JUST BECAUSE WE'RE BEING HUMBLE?! YOU GUYS CAN'T GO ANYWHERE EITHER!!"
"Oh but actually we have one that's the old man Crocus gave us earlier," Nami said while turning around, hiding her grin from them.
"Ahh, we beg people of such character help usss..." Mr. 9 is clearly ticked off by now, just swallowing his anger so they could get out of the Twin Capes. 'Dammit this bitch tricked us!' he thought.
"Sure, you can ride with us," Luffy said without a care.
"What??" everyone is shocked, but deep down they already expected this.
"Did you say Whisky Peak right? Let's go there!"
"You....what are you??" Ms. Wednesday asked the rubber man.
"Me??" Luffy smiled widely and proclaim "I'm gonna be the king of the pirates!!" with confidence in his voice, without a slight waver from him, it resonates to his crew and Crocus himself...
"King of the Pirates?" Ms. Wednesday and Mr. 9 smiles and laughed silently at each other and thought 'This boy is stupid after all
After the crew member's baffled expression, and Crocus asking if their decision is right, getting laughed at silently by Ms. Wednesday and Mr. 9 when Luffy told them he's gonna be the king of the pirates they finally decided to set sail.
"Thank you flower pops! Thanks for the Log Pose too! SEE YA WHALE! I'M LEAVING NOW!"
The whale's response is to make a sound that sends them off, without the sadness, it contains when they first met.
"TO WHISKY PEAK!.....FULL SPEED AHEAD!!"
At the cape, the old man is looking at the horizon where the strawhat boy's ship is sailing, his eyes that speak volumes how much respect the idiot captain earned from him.
"He may be the kind of pirate we need in this world...king of the pirates huh? Heh... Did you also see this??.... Roger..." The old ship doctor's words were heard by the wind that's passing through.
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Author's Note: The next time I'll update it'll be my birthday, so I give you, the one person and possibly 2 humans, a miracle of 3 who might have read this shitte, an advance present, 3 UPDATES IN A ROW! The next one will take a while ❤️
Status: Edited
Next Update on April 6, 2021 -not sure- ⚠️
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