[ Two Days Later ]
Ray looks at the map and then looks at his surroundings. He then looks towards sun and scratches his head and says, " I think, we are lost. "
As he turns towards the other occupants of the boat he finds them looking at him with deepan faces.
"" You Think?!?! ""
Then they hear a gurgles coming from luffy's stomach.
Luffy just holds his stomach and lays down in the boat stating, " Ahh, I'm Hungry! "
To this statement both Zoro and Ray have veins popling on their foreheads.
" You're the one who ate all our food on the first night!! " Shouts Zoro and goes to punch Luffy but he is held back by Ray.
As observed, their journey wasn't going as smooth as they had hoped.
Throughout the last two days Ray had talked and tried to form bonds with his new crewmates, To which he has been somewhat successful.
They had talked about Luffy and Zoro's past and when asked for his, Ray was honest and told them about it.
That he was born on an isolated island( Country ), and had always wanted to travel and make his parents feel proud of him. That had been his dream till some time ago. But due to his indirect actions, his parents both died.
So now he was Seeking a new Dream while traveling the World that he had only heard stories about on his island.
Then Zoro overpowered Ray and is now holding Luffy's face and molding it to express his annoyance.
" Ahhhh, Stauop, Zodo Stap, Lay Kelp eee. " Luffy tries to ask for Ray's help, but Ray himself is looking towards the sky. Then he has a look of realisation.
He then looks towards Zoro and Luffy fighting and shouts while pointing towards the sky.
" Guys, Look !! "
Both Luffy and Zoro then looks towards him and then look above. They see a bird flying over there boat. While Zoro looks confused, luffy shouts,
" FOOOD!! "
Ray's eyes widen and he moves quickly towards luffy while saying, " W.wait..Luffy?!? ".
But before he could finish Luffy shouts " Gum-Gum "
He then grabs onto the top of the boat where the sails were tied and launches himself into the sky towards the bird continuing " Rocket!!!! "
" LUFFYYY!! " Shouts Zoro as he gawks at luffy flying towards the bird, which as clouds starts to clear looks even bigger that their boat now.
Ray just looks at this astonishingly, As this was the first time seeing Luffy's devil fruit powers. He then follows zoro and looks towards the sky as well. As if remembering something his lips start to twitch as if he was containing his laughter.
Though Ray couldn't see that far up quiet clearly, Zoro definitely could. He saw quiet clearly how Luffy instead of catching the bird, got his own head caugh in its beak instead.
" Ah,.... Ahhhhhh!! Help!! Ahhhhh....!! " shouted Luffy.
" YOU IDIOT!!! " shouted Zoro.
" HAHAHA " Ray finally couldn't hold his laughter after hearing Luffy's shouting anymore.
As the bird started flying away with Luffy, Zoro quickly grabbed the oars to follow the bird by rowing the boat really quickly after it.
As the boat started moving really quickly, Ray had to hold onto both sides of the boat not to fall off.
Just as he was about to tell something to Zoro, He sees that they are going the wrong way.
" Oi, Zoro!! Left! Left! Why are you turning?! Keep the boat straight! " Ray shouts towards Zoro to keep him from going in the wrong direction. He then quickly graps the small telescope.
" Hah?! Tch, Why don't you row it then?! " Shouts Zoro at Ray without an real anger in his voice.
" You're the stronger one. If i were to row it we would loose luffy! Right! A little Right! " Explained Ray as he both keeps himself balanced and keeps an eye on the bird.
" Tch, Whatever. " Replies Zoro as he increases the speed of his arms.
A few minutes of them following the bird and Ray shouting at Zoro for abruptly changing directions later, they hear someone's noise from afar.
As Ray keeps an eye on the bird, Zoro sees three people afloat in the sea.
" Shipwreck survivors, at a time like this?! Damn it, "
Due the situation without thinking he shouted,
" I can't stop, Just grap on and Climb in! " and kept on rowing.
" HEY?! " " Wa..Wait!? " " H.hang on?! Let us get On! "
Shouts of the three survivors are heard as they managed to grab onto the speeding boat.
Ray keeping an eye on Luffy flailing in the birds mouth finally looks back into the boat to find three men panting and advancing towards him and Zoro with knives Drawn.
" STOP THE SHIP! " says the guy with a hat on that has a skull with a red clown nose on the crossbones.
" We're Crewmembers of the Pirate Buggy The Clown And we are taking over this ship! "
" Huh?!? " Zoro just looks at them and speaks in confusion while Ray finally realised that he had to keep an eye on his Captain.
" Oh, On Zoro! It looks i lost him! " Ray looking distressed, called out Zoro.
Even knowing that it will all work out didn't give him slightest of reassurance as he had already seen the storyline of canon diverge, As now he became a member of the Straw Hat Pirates.
[ Ray's POV ]
" Did you have to beat them up that much? " I askes Zoro while looking towards the three stooges rowing our boat toward Orange Island.
" Its because of these Jokers we lost Luffy, I still went easy on them considering we are using them as free labour. " Replies Zoro while glaring towards the idiots and making them sweat.