"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:
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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..."
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Currently, at the deck of going merry, Nami is bundled up in layered clothes because the weather suddenly became strange, one minute it was sunny and the next it's snowing, while the idiots of the crew are having a great time playing in the snow.
"Alright, it's done! This is the man that fell from the sky! Mr. Snow Barrel" Luffy said while smiling and patting his so-called work of art.
The long nose just smiles with a bit of arrogance and proud demeanor, "Haha that's such a crude snowman..."
"What?!" enraged for getting mocked by his crew member, he turned around and saw a beautiful snow statue.
"Behold at my soulful artwork! The Snow Queen!" Usopp said while proudly raising his right hand at the snow and presenting it to Luffy.
"Whoa, that's incredible! ATTACK! Snow barrel punch!" the rubber man then push one of the sticks on his snowman and makes it flying through the other snowman's head...
*phoohk*
Thus Mr. Snow Barrel Man beheaded the Snow Queen.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Usopp kicks Luffy but he evaded so Mr. Snow Barrel takes the hit.
"Ahh!! Mr. Snow Barrel Man!!" exclaimed Luffy, then he hit Usopp while shouting "How dare you?!".
"Damn you! Damn you! Damn you!" Usopp fights back by throwing snowballs at Luffy, while the rubber man runs.
"How about this huh??" the role has been reversed, rubber man makes a huge snowball and rolled it behind the running long nose sniper.
"You bastard! Hold it Luffy!!" the long nose said, holding up a giant snowball while chasing after the snickering Luffy and if you could notice there's a human shape in the giant snowball that Usopp is holding in his hands, clearly that's the sniper's silhouette.
"How come they have some much energy in this freezing weather?" the navigator asked herself while looking at the fumbling captain and sniper.
"Nami-swan! How much shoveling of love would you like me to do??" while the love cook is shoveling snow on the deck with heart-shaped eyes and an idiotic smile on his face, looking at Nami across from the upper deck.
"Please continue until it's stopped snowing Sanji-Kun!" Nami said through the window, smiling to the blonde.
"Of course! Nami-swan~"
Ms. Wednesday and Mr. 9 are both in the room with Nami, covered by thick blankets, yet they're still shivering from the cold, for a pair of freeloaders they're still complaining that there's no heater in the ship, Nami getting pissed off at their attitude telling them off. Ms. Wednesday suddenly said.
" You haven't been stirring for a while now, it's that okay?" Ms. Sunday asked her slowly, with hidden gloat at her voice.
"I just checked the direction...AHHHHHHHH!!" Then the navigator screamed suddenly, looking at her log pose, the crewmates were startled from the shout of the orange-haired girl.
"Wha-what?" Usopp nervously asked, eyes open wide while in the middle of throwing snowballs at Luffy
"Ah? What's the matter?" The captain, half-heartedly inquire.
"Something wrong Nami-san?" the love cook, stopped his shoveling of love and turn his attention to her.
"Ahhh.... No way!! Turn the ship 180 degrees now!" Nami shouted and ordered hastily.
"Huh? Why you wanna go back?"
"You forgot something??"
By now Nami was panicking inside but still held her emotions to inform her crewmates what's happening.
"No, our direction change to the opposite side in a matter of few seconds!! I just turn my eyes away from this thing for a sec.....Why? The waves are calm earlier" the navigator said while looking worriedly at the sky after telling the others what's going on with the compass.
"You can't trust nature in the Grand Line, from waves to blow of the wind, the only thing that's reliable in this seas are the Log Pose itself, Are you even sure you're the navigator?" Ms. Wednesday said, the latter part in a mocking tone.
The navigator already got fed up and kicked the two freeloaders outside to help the crew. But as luck is obviously not gracing the crew, for Lady Luck is asleep, quite literally.
One minute they're under the snowy sky with lightning..
"AHHH! WHY THERE'S A LIGHTNING IN A BLIZZARDS?!"
"WE'RE GONNA DIEEEEEE!"
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The next it's a hail storm...
"HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?!"
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The other is spring breeze..
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"My~ it's the air of first spring!"
"So niceee~"
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An iceberg in the middle of the ocean..
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"CRAP THAT'S A HUGE ASS ICEBERG!"
"TURN THE RUDDER!!"
"I'M TRYING WOMAN!"
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Too much wind while earlier having close to none, foggy seas the next second, the navigator is on the brink of mental collapse from all the crazy weather happening beyond commonsense.
Someone finally noticed the leak in the ship...
"Water is leaking at the bottom of the ship"
"That's bad!"
"I'm gonna patch it up!"
"Hurry! We need you here pronto!"
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--At the storage of Going Merry--
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While all of this is happening, our two stowaway, one is asleep, the other awake, thinking how to execute the said plan, the both of them can feel what's happening at the deck, the thuds above and the shouting really makes it easy to know.
When the Merry grazed through an iceberg and heard the ship was leaking, he muttered [restore] while touching the floor of the ship, restore is one of the passive but higher level of word magic he could cast at the moment, he directed his power where the leak is currently happening and the hole slowly but surely closed up.
If you're wondering why not just restore the whole ship, it's because his mana might be large but his body is still human, he needs to train his body and power to level up, and leveling up isn't easy. That's the restraint the entity has given him, if marc wants to be powerful, he needs to work hard for it.
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--At the deck of Going Merry--
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At the deck the sail got torn up by the wind, it was magically restored while everyone was looking away because of what Ms. Wednesday had said. They look down and see a bit of seawater, but the most puzzling is, why so little water? Not even ankle-deep.
"Hey! The sail just got fixed!" Luffy shout at them while grinning, pointing at the supposedly teared up sail.
"What thell are you talking about??" Nami asked when she looked up, it was really fixed! Before anyone could think more of the matter, the Grand Line just put up its middle finger at them.
And the crew plus two struggled onto the seas once more and its ever-changing weather. After a few more minutes of struggling the weather clears and Zoro wakes up in that nice blue sky.
"Hey, hey, I know the weather is nice but don't be too lazy..are we even in the right direction?" said the former asleep swordsman while looking at his crewmate that's sprawled onto the deck or stairs. Well except Luffy because he was sitting at the handrail of Merry
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'This Bastard!' everyone except Luffy thought to the swordsman.
The moss head looks down at finally sees the weird duo.
"Who are these two?"
"You just noticed us?!" the duo said at the same time.
"Ah! We're taking them home" Luffy told his first recruit.
"Taking them home? We've got no obligation to them" said the swordsman to his captain.
"Yeah! But I wanna go there!" Luffy with a wide grin told him, the swordsman knows his stubborn captain can't be swayed when he wants something. So he looked back at the two and asked, "What's your name?"
"M-Mr. 9.." with a nervous smile, so does the girl, "M-Ms. Wednesday.."
"Hmmm....yeah those names, I feel like I've heard those names before...or maybe not?" Zoro said with a shit-eating grin while he looked at the two, clearly amused by their reaction. "Well...either way...*bonk*"
Nami punch Zoro from behind, the navigator didn't know nen but you can practically see her aura shrouding her being, the promise of destruction if the swordsman just says anything displeasing, "How dare you to sleep comfortably all this time?..... You keep sleeping no matter how much we wake you up!.."
Unfortunately, Zoro just didn't get a hint so with threat underlying his voice, he asked. "What?"
*donk*
*bonk*
*gonk*
A triple-decker of bumps stacked on his green head, courtesy of Nami. The two that are being questioned by the swordsman are now baffled at what they witnessed.
"Don't let your guard down everyone, we don't know what will happen after all that craziness, I finally realized why this was called the Grand Line, my navigational skills are nothing but trash here!" Nami said without being embarrassed while claiming her skills are trash in this sea.
"How confident...." Zoro said in gritted teeth while clutching his triple-decker.
"Are we gonna be fine?" Usopp said worriedly.
"We'll be fine, things will work out somehow!" Nami just smile and assured them, then she put on a thoughtful look and stare in Usopp's direction. "Just a thought...What happened earlier? Usopp, are your skills are great enough to patch Merry that fast?"
"I did go inside to fix it, but when I was looking where it was supposed to be I can't find any hole! There's seawater inside, sure, but there's just no hole for the water to get inside!"
"Not only that, Luffy saw that the sail suddenly got fixed"
"Did you see anything, unusual captain?" Sanji asks while looking at the figurehead where Luffy is sitting.
"Maybe merry got powers?" Usopp said in a thoughtful manner, but before he was berated.
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Luffy got a sparkle in his eyes, suddenly said "OHHH!! MERRY HAS POWERS?! THAT'S SO COOL!!"
"THAT'S NOT IT! DUMBASS!!" Nami shouted at the idiot rubber man.
"Then how can we explain this??" Usopp asked no one in particular, none of them can explain it.
The whole crew even the weird duo look at the once broken sail, and they didn't see any tear or hole. Luffy is still convinced that merry got powers and Usopp thinking hard, for any logical explanation, Nami just sighed and got suspicious of more freeloaders in the ship, the cook just fussed over Nami-swan and the swordsman just clicked his tongue and look onto the ocean and see an island ahead.
"Hey! There's an island!" the Zoro said to the crew, Luffy finally stopped telling Merry to shoot laser beams and look at the front.
Nami just smiled "Finally some land! Alright everyone! Once we got there we have to restock, don't go making trouble, understand?" the trouble part is directed at Luffy, and the said man is seating on his special seat while looking at them, with his left pinky stuck inside his nose picking up boogers.
Sanji just sprouts hearts and saying" Yes! Nami-swan~".
The swordsman grunted sake, the sniper thinking all the tools that needed to be bought for the merry.
"So this is Whisky Peak," Sanji said while looking at the huge cacti.
"Those are some strange looking cacti. Do you think we could eat it??" Luffy said while laughing suggesting if they can even eat that huge ass rock.
Mr. 9 and Ms. Wednesday suddenly jump to the railing while saying their scripted lines.
"Well then, we'll get going…"
"Thanks for getting us home, honey"
"If our fates are linked, we'll be seeing each other again..."
"Until then, bye-bye baby!" both of them said at the same time, they jumped to the ocean and swim away from the ship.
"They're gone...." Nami said baffled at the duo
"Who are they anyway??" Usopp is still confused about their identity.
"Who cares!! We're landing!" Luffy said with his careless attitude.
"There's a river at the front, it seems like we can go and dock with our ship there," Nami told the rest of the crewmates.
"I-is it possible that th-there are monsters at the island??" the long nose sniper asked with apparent nervousness.
"It's definitely possible, this is the Grand Line after all.." the blonde cook said with a neutral voice.
"ekkkk!!"
"If we came across some monsters, let's just ditch the island!" the rubber man said while grinning.
"Hold on, don't forget we need to wait on the island for a certain period of time" Nami said to the crew, crushing someone's hope of escape.
"Why?" the three asked minus the swordsman.
"Unless we record the magnetism of this island in the log pose, we can't go to the next island! Since each island needs a different certain amount of time, some take several hours while others take a few days" Nami said with a matter of fact tone.
"Th-Then even if this island is a monster island...We have no choice but to wait on the island until it's recorded?" Usopp asked her.
"That's right," Nami said while nodding a bit, nailing someone's hope in a coffin.
"Shishishi isn't this fun? We can just think about it when it happened, let's go already!" the captain just going to the flow and grin widely, clearly not afraid.
"Luffy's right, let's just deal with it when it happens" Zoro agreed to his captain's idea.
"No matter what I'll protect Nami-san!" declare the love cook.
"M-my chronic illness is relapsing...my Not-go-to-island disease..." the sniper said his line of bullshittery.
"Then we're going in! Listen! Make sure everyone--" Nami ignored Usopp.
"Ah, no.."
"is prepared to run or to fight!" she finalized, clearly they heard him but they didn't listen.
"Like...my chronic illness.... Well, you guys aren't listening...." and thus our pitiful sniper lost his hope of an emergency exit.
"Well, what kind of monsters we'll face?" Sanji said with a puff of smoke.
"P-Please..."
"Huh? Something is moving..." Luffy announced to the rest.
"Human? Humans are there!" Sanji said after he saw people's shadows through the fog, and looked back to his crewmates.
"Everyone, be careful," Nami said seriously.
"Ahhh....damn it, since it comes to this, I've prepared myself," Usopp said while his legs are both trembling from fear. "Monsters or whatever you are! Just come outtt!!".
The swordsman just gripped his swords with his right hand and take a stance that he could draw them if something happens.
What appears in front of them....
Are the civilians cheering and welcoming the pirates.
"Welcome to the Grand Line!"
"Welcome to our town!"
"Welcome to the Welcoming town of Whisky Peak!"
The baffled crew and the smiling Luffy looked at the town.
"F--Far from being monsters, they're welcoming us...."
"Just what's going on here?"
The cheering of people is so lively that the crew put down their guards, especially a blonde cook.
"Myyy! There lots of beautiful girls!"
"KYAA!! Look here handsome!!"
"I'll get there later my darlings~~!!"
The sniper giving flying kisses to everyone while the captain just greets "HEYYYYY!!" everyone in a cheery manner.
At the docks, they were greeted by the mayor.
"Welco-- *cough!* Ma-ma-ma~ Welcome. My name is Igarappoi, I'm the town's mayor of Whisky Peak"
The said mayor has blonde curly hair and is wearing formal clothes of a dark blue suit with gold color lining and gold-colored buttons, a white shirt underneath with black tie, a grey vest, dark blue pants, white socks, and dark brown shoes.
"Oh, my name's Luffy, nice to meet you! Pops you overdid curling your hair!" Luffy said while pointing at the mayor's hair, grinning at the man.
"Oh? It is natural, got it from my family. Whisky Peak is known for their good liquor and music, Hospitality is what we're proud of, as for our liquor it's as bountiful as the ocean, would you allow us to throw a party in your name? So that we may hear the tales...*cough* ma-ma-ma~ of your adventures?"
"We'll be glad to!" the three idiots, Luffy, Sanji, and Usopp laughingly said while their arms are across the shoulder of the other, Luffy thinking of food, Usopp finally relaxed and at ease while Sanji is thinking about beautiful women.
The only two that were not convinced are Nami and Zoro. It's really suspicious for them. Welcome pirates like they are heroes.
"Oh, by the way, how long until the log pose recorded the magnetic field here?" Nami asked the mayor.
"Log pose? Forget about such boring things while you're here and just relax" the mayor said while putting her hands on Nami's shoulder, smiling kindly at the girl.
"Now, everyone! Prepare the party and let's welcome the adventurers!" the mayor said while the civilians just cheer and do their own preparation for the party.
Night comes, inside of a simple house, the people are partying, drinking to their heart's content, singing or playing instruments, Usopp telling his lies, for him to look cool to the people, while Nami is lured to a drinking contest, dragged Zoro with her, Luffy eating food with vigor, stacking plates by plates that used to house the food, the local cooks falls on the floor, one after another, clearly exhausted from the work. Sanji is currently hitting 20 girls at the same time, clearly in paradise.
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--At the storage of Going Merry--
Marc heard about the cheers from earlier and he knew they arrived at Whisky Peak, although he only remembers bits and pieces of what's about to go down here, it's better than having none.
He stands up and deactivates the spell he put on both of them, Zoey is still asleep, and he can't leave her here, it is safe to be on the going merry than outside, but he wasn't sure if something deviates from the canon itself now that both of them are here in this dimension, reborn or not they're changing something by causing some bits of ripples, better safe than sorry.
He carried Zoey in a piggyback ride position and goes out of the storage room, walks into where the railing is, and prepared to jump and land into the docks, but before he did, he looked at the ship, the Merry, the deck, he looked at the Whisky Peak, "...It's all real.. " he muttered in awe at what he's seeing, his dreams before, are now a reality.
It's really a commemorative moment, well if only the situation is more ideal then it'll be perfect, with that he jumps out of the ship. Casting a spell [stealth] he runs away from the Merry and goes into places that can hide them both until the time is right to make an entrance.
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To Be Continued.
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Author's Note: I wish I could send out two more chapters than just one, but a lazy noob got her own limitations so here it is. My dear ghad, someone, SOMEONE ACTUALLY read this?! Oh vey.... 😱.... I thank you all ❤️. As usual, this story is a whimsical decision, and imagination of mine, a noob and lazy, you've been warned ⚠️
Status: Edited
The next chapter would be: April 12, 2020
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