"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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Note: Fudge, I didn't mean to update, it should be tomorrow, what's done is done... 🤦🏻♀️
Recap:
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It's really a commemorative moment, well if only the situation is more ideal then it'll be perfect, with that he jump 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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The night is still young, so Marc knew it's too early for Zoro to come out and fight the mob, so with Zoey on his back stuck to him via passive spell, it's easy to jump and run around even with extra weight.
He slowly stops running because he is marveling at the sight in front of him, although the only light that he could use without startling anyone is the moonlight.
The manga nor the anime really can't capture everything, seeing this in real life is so different, he could feel the cold night air blowing through his hair, the hard cold ground he's stepping on, the soft moonlight that's shining through the sky, the home of the locals, every wood, every stone or cement, lights from some house, and the partying sound where the strawhat's are currently enjoying their time.
Everything feels so real...
This wasn't a dream...
He really is in One Piece...
The man smiled sadly, suddenly dawning on him about his past life and what kind of life he went through there, and the life he got here, his friends who are addicted to the show. His family berated his addiction to Anime, hate, and love to his siblings... He shakes his head out of the melancholy and just walks slowly, enjoying some peace of mind that he rarely has.
As he was walking Zoey shifts on his back, came after a soft pat on his shoulder, he looked back and saw she's awake, he then put her down, the girl slowly came down and stand up in her brown tracksuit and black rubber shoes glory.
"How's the nap?" Marc asked with a small smile.
The girl yawns and squints her eyes, they're clearly adjusting to the night. While scratching her covered tummy she replied "A bit bumpy...and really noisy...but I can live with that" and yawns once again.
The boy just sighed at the laziness of her friend and guide her to walk with him, just like him, Zoey was looking around, sightseeing, even in her sleepy eyes there's a bit of twinkle, happy in what she's seeing.
After a few hours of walking, sightseeing in the dark, eating some sandwiches, and drinking some water when they heard something that will probably start a journey or a brawl.
Marc cast a [stealth] spell to the both of them, so they could take a peek, spy on whoever is talking...
"Why didn't we just beat them up at the harbor? This town's food supply is nearly depleted... Also, we don't have any hope for that whale meat anyway..." a large and bulky woman with a cute voice speak, and frankly, it's hard to imagine the cuteness and her appearance came from the same body, no offense, but the brain of the two is confused as what they're seeing and hearing at the same time.
"That's rude! We're trying our best you know!" the false prince all but shout to the woman.
"Calm down! I have taken the liberty of looking into them..." a crinkle of paper was heard. And the said mayor, pull something out from his pocket.
"THIRTY MILLION BERRIES?!" the three agents looking at the wanted poster shout from shock.
"With those looks?!" the tall woman exclaimed, apparently her shock is too great to calm down.
"It's foolish to try and gouge a pirate's worth based on their looks alone Ms. Mon *ahem!" ma-ma-ma~ Ms. Monday"
"I'm sorry"
"But we've already settled this, looks like we can give a good report to the boss, confiscate all their valuables and any money you could get on the pirate's ship"
"So, what do we do about them?"
"What do we do?"
"If we kill them the bounty would drop by 30%, I say capture them alive and give them to marines tied up, they like holding public executions anyway... Go! Capture them!"
Before any of the agents could move, "Hey...sorry 'bout that...but... Would you mind letting them asleep? They're pretty tired from the journey this afternoon"
A familiar voice broke through, coming from above them, and saw a silhouette with greenish hair and a gleaming sword holding up in his left hand, the big moon behind him
The two spying idiots look at each other, both eyes wide open but with different reasons.
'Oh, My Ghad!! Some shit will hit the fan!!' Zoey thought to herself, her eyes wide awake, a rarity but not for long.
'I'm...I'm seeing this LIVE and not on screen!!'Marc thought at the same time, eyes wide awake just like the pinkette, but with different reasons.
The four agents who got caught in the act gasp when they saw Zoro sitting up there. A door suddenly opens up dangerously close to where the two idiots' spies are.
"Mr. 8, Ms. Monday! I'm sorry but the person who wears a bellyband suddenly slips away!"
"...Don't bother he's here," the cotton blue-haired girl irritatedly said.
"You bastard..... I thought you were dead asleep!" grounded out Mr. 8, glaring at the swordsman above.
"Swordsmen never made a mistake by letting their guard down that much" Zoro stands up from his sitting position and slowly puts down his sword while looking below.
"If I get this right, this place is a den of bounty hunters..." With an eat-shitting grin the swordsman concluded, only his voice is heard in this dead of the night, he continued, "Tricking pirates into thinking this place welcomes them and high in spirits of getting into Grand Line..."
After exhaling from talking too much, he smirked at the bounty hunters that gathered while he's saying his speech.
"So...there's about 100 bounty hunters here huh?..... I'll fight you all, Baroque Works!"
"You bastard! How did you know about us?!"
"When I was in the same line of work someone wanted to recruit me to your company once, naturally I rejected it, employees don't have any clear identification and calling in coded names....pretty shady is you ask me"
The two spying idiots knew that shit will hit the fan, both of them are panicking inside, probably thinking they'll die, forgetting the fact they have the ability to survive. But with the swordsman continued speech and them knowing Baroque Works via last life info or today, the organization won't let them go if they got noticed.
"Naturally the boss can't be identified, and the ones under him didn't even know a squat on his identity, Baroque Works is an organized crime that's value secrecy... Oh was it a secret?"
There's no sound coming from the mass, the agents, swordsman, or the two idiots, for a full minute just the gust of wind blowing through them.
"....This is surprising...If you know about us then we have no choice but to kill you...another gravestone will be put in the cactus rock...." The mayor, Mr. 8 said in a serious tone, that promises the death of the green head.
"KILL HIM!!" Mr. 8 ordered but when they look up, the swordsman is nowhere to be found.
Baffled at what they're seeing, they started to look around, and they found him in the middle of the mob, the said mob is clearly terrified and some of them are cursing their luck.
The two who peek around the corner were reminded that Zoro is pretty strong..... The bounty hunters shot each other because the swordsman quickly vanishes again. He appeared behind Mr. 8 with his sword stabbing through the agent's hair, 1 inch away from his face. The bounty hunters aim at Zoro, and Mr. 8 upon realizing he will get shot if the swordsman moves away, started firing at the bounty hunters with his saxophone.
The swordsman vanished from the fray and behind the spying duo, he noticed earlier. Marc with his instincts kicking in when some presence suddenly pops up behind them shot a spell [fire blast] to Zoro.
The swordsman, clearly in high drive in adrenaline, got out of whatever the man is pulling, but of course, they give away their location, with a cuss the swordsman started attacking Marc and Zoey, more like just Marc, thinking it was more of the enemy's allies.
The Baroque Works who heard the blast make a run to their direction, shocked at what they're seeing, the swordsman and a stranger in black duking it out, swords vs. string of colorful lights, that give different ability one after another, and when they saw the pinkette, clearly civilian, threatening as a mouse. The agents didn't even know if they let her be or attack her.
But they aim their weapons, without hesitation, they were ordered to kill them all, seeing as the two idiots were there, they know they already heard what happened a few minutes ago and thus needed to be buried.
With the fight escalating like this, Marc got no choice but to hide in another place, with a [teleport] spell, Zoro, Marc, and Zoey, vanished with a sudden burst of light.
"Wha--what?"
"Where are they?!"
"Quickly find them!!"
And so the game of hide-and-seek starts...
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--Somewhere the trio was teleported--
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The swordsman was baffled and gripped his sword tighter, clearly highly threatened by the other guy's power. Before he could launch, the guy raises his hand in the air, giving an I surrender vibe.
Zoro became confused why but he didn't let his guard down nor his sword, he's just standing there not budging.
"Ex-excuse me..." then a girl with pink hair peek behind Marc, in her soft but clear voice, she started speaking to the green head "...I'm sorry about this, actually, we were stowaway from your ship.."
The swordsman tightens his hold. But the girl continues.
"And it was actually our mistake to hide there, we're actually running away and your ship is less threatening one in the docks with a Sheep head and all....uhmm... We were wondering if, well...you could....probably help us??"
The swordsman answered but still not budging.
"That depends, we just got scammed tonight, being welcomed and cheered for so.." they visibly winch but the green-haired didn't care. "What kind of help you need and before that who are you?"
This time the guy talked to the green head "I'm Marc and behind me is Zoey, I was also a bounty hunter in the East Blue.."
"A bounty hunter? No wonder you're strong...say...is your last name Maggo?" the swordsman put away his sword and ease his stance.
Shocked by the green-haired's action and the said question he replied "Yes".
Zoro smirked while looking at Marc, "Alright, I'll help you both, but you need to help me first...."
"Defeating the Baroque Works?"
With a shit-eating grin, he nodded to Marc's question. And that's how their fates intertwined. Suddenly a male voice broke the two men.
"THEY'RE HERE!"
"FIRE!"
*BABANG*
*BABABANG*
*BABANG*
*BABABANG*
A barrage of gunshots was heard, the two men hide while the pinkette is out of the firing range, the bounty hunters just didn't care and thought that Zoey could fight and easy to apprehend unlike the other two, her ditzy appearance really isn't threatening unlike a man with three swords or the unknown power the other one had.
The two started running from the mob, Zoro trying out his new swords and Marc shooting out two-word spells left and right. The forgotten pinkette saw the two defeated some bounty hunters and the conscious mob, run after them, the pinkette just looked dazed, thinking whether the fight is real or not, was she dreaming or she hit her head while hiding in the storage thus the hallucinations? If not...then sleep too much??
Either way the blood that's seeping out from the fallen men are....looks really legit and so does the metallic smell of it. She didn't know medicine so she's not aware whether they're fine or not, but a small fraction of their chest movement, up and down, brought some relief that they're alive. She turns around and runs away from the chaos.
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--At Zoro and Marc--
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After getting a surprise bazooka, wasting more booze, chopping a stone hammerhead, getting duped by a child and a nun, and an angry mob chasing them both...
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--Nami's Location--
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"What? This is all their money? Some bounty hunters den this is" while sighing at the small fortune she'd gathered, she walked out of the random house she picked up and saw a pink-haired girl running in her direction. She'll probably punch her face but the problem is her expression, instead of anger or determination to maim her, what she saw is visibly confusion that's look out of place.
She didn't bring her to guard down and smile at the girl "Hello there! Nice evening huh?"
Zoey saw her and started to smile when she got there she started panting and trying to calm her breathing, when she finally does she started speaking, "Hello! *huff* I'm Zoey! *huff* your friend Zoro *huff*made a deal with Marc *huff*" after a huge inhale and exhale, "He made a deal with Marc that if we help him, he'll help us, so I was running away from the fight"
"WHAT?!" The navigator exclaimed, shocked by the news, and quickly asked "WHY??"
Zoey then explained while patting her chest a bit, unzipping the tracksuit because she was sweaty from the run, "We heard about Baroque Works so we're on the hit list now, and the enemy got a large number of people so he asked for assistance since the deal was made..... What can I help you then? I don't wanna be a freeloader on someone else" no matter how lazy she is, pride of independence, even close to none, is still pride.
Nami just sighed she knew about their situation, she knew she wasn't lying, so she asked the pinkette while walking to another's house, "Where you came from? What island in the Grand Line?"
Zoey just scratch her head while smiling sheepishly "We're from the East Blue, Loguetown, we're actually stowaway from your ship, we were hiding for a bit but we didn't know it's a pirate one before we knew it the ship was sailing already"
Nami just face-palm, she can't believe someone is this idiotic... Cancel the thought she knew a big one and he was sleeping after overeating.
"If you're asking us to get you back on the East blue then, you don't need to help us"
"No! No! We know it's hard getting here so we just want for you people to dropped us off from the next habitable and possibly an island where a town is present" Zoey said while shaking their head and smiling softly at the orange head.
Nami just nods and smile in jubilation, "Then let's get to work!!"
And thus the two women started looting left and right while Zoro and Marc distracting the bounty hunters and agents alike.
Suddenly a loud explosion was heard a few streets away and a shout of a female "IGARAM!!" were heard.
The two girls started looting much faster than earlier, the more money the better!!
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Then the swordsman and Marc appeared, dragging a still sleeping bloated Luffy across the street, and saw what's happening...
*BABABABANG*
*BABABABANG*
A barrage of gunfire was shot at the newcomers, Ms. Valentines and Mr. 5, but the duo is still alive, and not a shot put a hole in them. With the cover blown by Ms. Wednesday or in this moment, Princess Vivi was behind Igaram but got shot with a bomb booger of Mr. 5, Igaram then falls face forward and with a pained voice, he instructed the princess.
"Hurry up! Princess Vivi!.....for our motherland...you need to be safe!"
"No Igaram!"
"Even though it's hard to swallow what's going on... But we've been a pair for a while now, I'll give you time, quite manly huh? So escape! Bye-Bye baby!" with that Mr. 9 started attacking Mr. 5 but got defeated and he sent flying to the air and onto the ocean.
"That's some dangerous booger!"
"Mr. Swordsman! *cough* upon seeing your skill lease help us! Protect Princess Vivi in my place and send her to Alabasta A.S.A.P.! She's the only hope of our kingdom!!"
"Are you kidding me?! You people tried to kill us earlier and you want us to protect her?"
"I know it's unreasonable *cough* but please help us! Help Princess Vivi!!"
"YOU KNOW AND YOU STILL ASK?! FUCK OFF!! LET ME GO BEFORE I CUT YOU SOME MORE!!"
"Listen! If you help us you'll be paid handsomely!!"
"SCREW THAT!! LET GO!!"
Before Marc could convince Zoro to accept the request, even with half-assed memory of One Piece, he still remembers the Arcs but sadly not the details, although someone is faster than him if berri was involved.
"Is getting reward handsomely really true??" A female's voice was heard and the three of them looked up and saw Nami and Zoey looking down, the former with an interested smile and the latter confused about what's going on.
"I'll take up that offer! How about a Billion Berries sound?"
"Nami!"
"One-one Billion Beh-- *cough* Berries?!"
"Oh I thought you were asleep..." inquired the swordsman. Marc just looked at Nami, he knew deep down.....Money is much more important to this woman.
"Well you can't be serious that I didn't even suspect them a bit, my instincts never failed me haha," said Nami while jumping down from the second floor of the house across from them, the skills of a thief sure is handy, while Zoey didn't copy her and use the ladder instead.
"Ohooo so this is your friend huh? Quite handsome, but my money is much more attractive!"
Marc just smiles awkwardly, didn't even know if he felt offended or flattered. Zoey just snickers behind the money-loving navigator, with her right hand hiding her smile. While the negotiations for the money are underway, some threatening and pressuring later, Nami instructed Zoro to get going.
"ZORO AND YOU! GET TO WORK!" Nami shouted at the two while pointing to where the Princess fled to.
"HUH?? WHY THE HELL AM I INVOLVED IN YOUR MONEY MAKING WITCH?!"
"You got debts to pay and some interest too~" the sing-song voice of Nami is heard, the swordsman just gritted his teeth, with no choice he turns where the Princess run off and hot on his tail is Marc, who wisely kept quiet. A very wise choice indeed.
Zoey looked at the strawhat boy that's asleep and keep poking him to wake up, seeing it didn't work she tried nudging him, still didn't work she shout, kick and still didn't wake him up... "GHAD HE'S WORSE THAN ME!!"
Nami just raises a brow and pats the girl "Let me handle it" with a deep breath she shouts "LUFFY IT'S BREAKFAST ALREADY!!"
"BREAKFAST WHERE?! WHERE?!" seeing as he wasn't in Merry and there's no food he grumbled at his navigator, "Why did you wake me up?"
"It's an emergency captain, we got duped, this town is actually a den of bounty hunters, Zoro and Marc is going around defeating them.."
"He WHAT?! HE ATTACKED THEM?! THESE PEOPLE GAVE US FOOD!"
Before Nami could explain some more Luffy gets up and prepared to run but before he could, he got blocked by Zoey.
Without her usual sleepy appearance, she then said a long string of words that she dreaded so much....
"Look here, Sir Luffy! Right now there's a Princess we need to save, this town is under the orders of Baroque Works! They'll kill everyone and anyone! So please don't fight the swordsman and help them instead"
"Ah? Who are you?" the rubber man asked the pinkette.
"I'm Zoey, ....A friend of mine, Marc, is helping the swordsman to protect the Princess...." goodness Zoey is already tired from all the explaining she needed to do.
"That's right" Nami then filled in Luffy on what's happening, the action makes the lazy Pinkette delighted, Baroque Works syndicate, a Princess in disguise, and thus avoiding Luffy and Zoro fighting it out.
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Author's Note: I need to control and pick what I want to put into words, or I'll probably write down every episode at this rate! And another type of warning, I'm using a phone to type all of this, so please go easy on me if anyone started criticizing my work. ⚠️
Status: Edited
The next chapter would be: April 19, 2021