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Erick was asleep on his back at the front of The Black Pearl. "Wake up you idiot" Jonah says in a stern tone, causing erick to slightly open his eyes and groan from just waking up. "We're here… The border of East Estoria" Jonah says. Erick stood up and looked out to the sea with a large smile as he chuckles slightly. "Hey Erick have you ever heard of Fruit island?" Jonah asks while looking at the map. "Of course I have but not much, what about it?" Erick asks curiously. "Well the wind is already sailing towards that island, it would be a little rough to sail against the wind at this speed" Jonah says bluntly. "Most captains have already eaten a berry from Fruit island as well." Jonah says while looking at Erick. "So… you think I should eat a berry from Fruit island?" Erick says while still looking out to the sea.
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"I've seen the terrors of the sea and although I don't know much about you, I feel some sort of presence coming from you… I believe you can handle the power of a berry" Jonah says bluntly. "Handle it? What do you mean by that?" Erick asks curiously while staring at Jonah. "If everyone could handle a berry then don't you think everyone would eat one?" Jonah says as if Erick's question was stupid. "Ahh. That makes sense." Erick says coming to the realization that it was a simple question. "Do you think before you say things?" Jonah asks with an annoyed face. "Not at all but… I'm good for now" Erick says as he walks to the front of the Black Pearl and looks out to sea, while squinting his eyes. "Hey what is that?" Erick asks as he points towards a large shadow a few miles in front of them. Jonah turns his head and squints his eyes but quickly widens them with panic
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"Is it something serious?" Erick asks curiously. "ARE YOU DUMB OR SOMETHING? DO YOU NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE SEA OR WHAT YOURE DOING HERE? HOW CAN YOU BE A CAPTAIN IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOURE DOING?!??" Jonah yells furiously. "That's why I have you" Erick says with a wide smile, causing Jonah to slightly be shocked and calm himself down. "So what is it?" Erick asks baffled. "From here it looks like a sea giant" Jonah replies with a straight face. "Woah that sounds so cool!" Erick says excitedly. "No. Not cool, sea giants are some of the most dangerous creatures known to man, hopefully this one is sleeping" Jonah says as they move closer and closer to the beast. "Well we're about to find out" Erick says as the Black Pearl approaches the sea giant. As their ship passed the giant, they saw that it was sleeping quietly in the sea.
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"Oh thank god, if we just stay quiet then-" Jonah began to say but was cut off. "HEY, SEA GIANT!!" Erick yells loudly at it, causing Jonah to turn to him with complete shock. "What the hell are you doing, are you trying to get us killed?" Jonah whispers loudly with an enraged face. "I just wanna ask him if he's seen any other ships" Erick says sheepishly. "Well he didn't wake up so please just leave him alone" Jonah whispers to Erick. Erick smiles widely as he chuckles slightly. Jonah looks at the giant and sees it looking straight at them, causing Jonah's eyes to widen completely in fear. The giant lifts its head up and gets closer to The Black Pearl and its body was above the water. The sea giant bends down and stares face to face with Erick.
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"Why did you disrupt my slumber, boy?" The sea giant says in a deep and boisterous voice. "I needed to ask you a question!" Erick exclaims with a smile. "Erick we should really just leave him alone and go" Jonah says in a wimpy and frightened tone. "A QUESTION?!?!?" The sea giant yells in an angered tone as he slams his fist into the sea beside The Black Pearl, causing a large amount of the water around them to fly into the sky and come back down, like rain. "Yeah! I need to know if any other ships have come through here?" Erick asks with a large smile on his face as Jonah was trembling in fear and the water had come down on both of them, soaking them completely. The sea giant raises its hand up, with a clutched fist, to the level of its eyes causing Jonah to completely cover his face in fear but Erick just stared at the giant with a straight face.
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The giant then brings its fist down at full force hoping to destroy The Black Pearl. As the giants fist began to come down on their ship Erick stands there with a straight face, not moving a muscle. "Alright then." Erick says as the giants fist was right in his face. Jonah moved away from Erick as the fist came down and then BOOM! Jonah saw the fist slam down and cause a massive cloud of mist to appear but the ship wasn't sinking, in fact it looked like there had been no damage to the boat at all. As the smoke cleared Jonah's eyes began to widen, utterly shocked by what he saw. Erick had both of his arms up and a large smile on his face while blocking the giants fist from touching The Black Pearl. Jonah gasps in shock and so does the giant as Erick was holding its fist back with little effort.
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"So… did you see any other ships pass by here?" Erick asks again with a slight chuckle. "YOU DARE MOCK ME!?!?!" The sea giant yells as it begins to slam its other fist down but Erick pushes the fist he was holding into the sea, causing the sea giant to lose balance and its head began to fall down to The Black Pearl. As the giants head fell, Erick smiled at Jonah, who was still cowering in fear. Erick punches the sea giant in the jaw, knocking it out as it sunk back down into the sea. "I guess he didn't wanna talk" Erick says with a straight face as he dusts his hands off on each other. "How did you… do that?" Jonah asks with a completely surprised face. "Uhh… I hit him in the face" Erick says, confused by the question. 'He doesn't even understand how strong he is… probably because he's been cooped up in that little town for so long' Jonah thinks to himself.
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"Are you sure you haven't already eaten a berry?" Jonah asks sarcastically and with a nervous smile on his face. "I don't think so… I've never even been out of South Estoria" Erick says looking up at the sky with a baffled look. "Geez, we're your parents Pathfinders by chance?" Jonah asks him. "I never knew my parents. I just… grew up in that small part of South Estoria and all of the towns people helped me so much. That's why I need to find the North Star" Erick says with a smile causing Jonah to smirk at him. "I'll finish what Captain Rory started and make the entire world like Estoria" Erick says as he looks at Jonah with eyes of pure determination. Jonah chuckles slightly. "So you're just some really strong orphan, huh?" Jonah says with a smile. "I guess so" Erick says looking toward the sea. 'Perfect for a Captain that'll find the North Star' Jonah thinks to himself.
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Jonah pulls the map out of his pocket causing Erick to run over to him and look at the map with joy. "Are we almost there!?" Erick asks with a wide smile. "We're currently here so-" Jonah began to speak as he was pointing at the map but was cut off. "How do you know we're here?" Erick asks with a confused face. "What do you mean? The map is showing me that we're here, don't you see the white dot right there?" Jonah asks with a hint of annoyance in his voice. "Uh uh" Erick says as he shakes his head with a blank face. Jonah looks back at the map as his eyes slightly rose. "I guess you just have a pretty good eye… huh Navigator?" Erick says with a smirk and a chuckle. "Yeah… I guess so" Jonah says with a hint of sorrow in his voice.
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Jonah began to have a flashback of him on a ship with Francis da Gama kneeling in front of him with a map in his hand. "Jonah, whenever the day comes that you set sail with your own captain you will see changes in yourself." Francis says in a soft tone. "Changes?" Jonah says with a confused face. "When you find a captain that will lead you into a great voyage, the sea will lend you its eyes and that is how you know…" Francis says with a straight face. "Know what?" Jonah says back curiously. Francis turns around and looks at a shadowy figure standing at the head of their ship. "… That the sea has kneeled to your captain and has become nothing but a slave to his crew" he says with a slight smile.
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Jonah returns to the present with a shocked face as he then looks at Erick, who was looking down at the sea on the side of the boat. "We're almost to beast island" Jonah says with a straight face. "Erick snaps his head to Jonah with a confused face. "Huh? I thought we were going to some river" Erick says to him. "The river has to be in an island Erick" Jonah says with an annoyed face. "Oh yeah right" Erick says while smiling and rubbing the back of his neck in embarrassment. "Isn't Fruit island close to here?" Erick asks with a curious face. 'I already told you that' Jonah thinks with an annoyed face. "Yeah but it's a few miles North… Erick can I ask you a question." Jonah says as he looks at Erick. "Sure go head" Erick replies as he looks back at Jonah.
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"What exactly is our route… I know you're trying to find the North Star but where do you want to begin looking" Jonah says with a curious face. "The West sea" Erick says with a serious face. Jonah reels back with shock. "You can't be serious, not even Captain Rory has explored The West sea. Are you insane!?" Jonah asks with worry in his voice. "I sure am!" Erick says ecstatically. "And plus, every Pathfinder has already been to the other islands in search of the North Star… if I was Captain Rory I would hide it in a place that only I'm strong enough to get to" Erick says with a confident smile. Jonah's face returns to normal and he begins to smile. "I guess that makes sense but still, even Captain Rory and Francis Da Gama only went to the West sea four times. Even if they did hide the North Star there, we only have two crew members, we won't survive there" Jonah says with a worried voice.
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"Gah, you worry too much, we'll find a crew right after we get Captain Rory's bounty" Erick says while opening his mouth as if he were beginning to yawn. The boat bumps into something causing Erick to fall on his face. Jonah pointed at him and laughed. "DONT LAUGH AT YOUR CAPTAIN IDIOT!!!" Erick yells while on the floor. Erick gets up as he rubs his head in pain. "What the hell was that?" Erick says with a slight hint of pain in his voice. "We're here" Jonah says with a smile as he looks past Erick. Erick turns around and sees the island that they had landed on.
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The island had beautiful white sand and the trees looked like oak trees but the trunks were stained with black roots pumping red energy through the trees. "So this is Beast island?" Erick says with an ecstatic smile. "Yeah, this island is the smallest island we've discovered but it's also the most dangerous" Jonah says with a straight face. "Woah really?" Erick asks with a curious smile while still looking at the island. "Definitely. We still haven't found out why but those roots produce some sort of energy that gives birth to the different beasts on this island." Jonah says bluntly. Erick jumps off of the ship with a joyous smile on his face. "Wait Erick slow down!" Jonah exclaims with a worried tone but it was too late, Erick was already off of The Black Pearl and onto the white sand.
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Erick lands onto the sand and looks out at the island. Jonah lands beside him with his arms crossed. "You can't just run off like that, you don't know anything about this place" Jonah says with a serious tone. Erick begins to look left and right frantically. "What are you looking for?" Jonah asks with a baffled look. "The river but I don't see it" Erick says as his voice gets sadder. Jonah smacks his hand on his own face in annoyance. He then pulls out the map and begins to walk forward. "We'll have to go into the forest, the river will be at the center" Jonah says with a confident face. "Huh? How do you know that?" Erick says back with a confused face. "Me and Francis talked about Beast island a lot, he told me that one day Captain Rory will hide his bounty and that me and my captain should look for the river in the center… covered in snakes" Jonah says with a straight face.
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"Well why are we still talking, let's go!" Erick says ecstatically as he walks past Jonah with a wide smile. "You asked me a question dumbass!" Jonah whispers angrily and annoyed as he begins to follow Erick into the forest. They both begin walking through the forest, Jonah was still looking at the map as if he was trying to figure something out. "What ya lookin at?" Erick asks. "I'm just trying to find the best route to the West sea" Jonah says back to him, still concentrating on the map. Both of them snap their heads forward as they hear a loud crash come from the trees in front of them. "Uhh Jonah, what was that?" Erick asks in a slightly worried tone. "I don't know, we're both seeing the same thing you idiot" Jonah whispers back aggressively as the trees, about 20 feet in front of them, begin to fall down and a beast comes out of them.
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Jonah's and Erick's eyes widen with shock as a gorilla comes out of the trees. It had jet black fur and red eyes with teeth the size of swords. It was also three times the size of a normal gorilla. The beast pounds its chest and roars as it then charged at Jonah and Erick. "AHHH ERICK DO SOMETHING!!!" Jonah yells as he runs behind Erick in fear. Erick turns to him and smiles. "First you gotta say the magic word" he says sarcastically. "OKAY OKAY PLEASE! ERICK HURRY ITS GETTING REALLY CLOSE!!!" Jonah yells in complete panic. Erick turns around toward the gorilla and bends his knees slightly as he reels back his fist and as the gorilla approaches him he punched it in the gut, sending it flying back into the trees. "I'M READY… BEAST ISLAND!!!" Erick yells ecstatically. "Stop being so loud you'll attract more of them" Jonah whispers in a wimpy and terrified voice.
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