Chapter 5
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Erick and Jonah had wide eyes as Chopper was surfing towards them with a grin on his face and a cigar in his mouth. "Woah he's kinda scary." Erick says with wide eyes. "STOP STARING AND DO SOMETHING!!" Jonah yells at him profusely. "Why do I always have to do something?" Erick asks with a confused face. "Because you are the captain… NOW DO SOMETHING!!!" Jonah yells again. "Alright. Alright." Erick says as he rolls his eyes and walks to the back of The Black Pearl. He then points at chopper as he makes his face look as mean as possible. "Do not come any closer or I will have to release my berry power!" Erick says. Chopper looks at him with a smirk as he begins to speed up on his surf boat.
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Erick turns around and looks at Jonah with a blank face. "He definitely knows that I'm lying." Erick says. "Ya think?" Jonah says as bullets of sweat were coming down his face. Jonah scrambled for the map and looks at it intensely as he pulls it out. "There's a small town near us but Chopper is moving too fast, we won't make it before he reaches us." Jonah says with worry in his voice. Erick was staring at the floor of the Black Pearl, with great intensity and focus. "Erick?" Jonah says while sweating. "ERICK?!" Jonah yells but Erick still didn't respond. Erick finally looked up at Jonah with a smile. "I got it." Erick says to him. "Wait what?" Jonah asks with a confused face as Erick walks past him and to the back of The Black Pearl again.
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"Erick what are you doing" Jonah asks with a confused face. Erick turns his head and looks back at Jonah. "I'm gonna buy us some time" he says as he then turns his head back around and faces Chopper who was about thirty feet from their boat now. Erick stares at chopper who was gaining speed. Erick's jacket was blowing in the wind as Jonah set the Sails to full throttle. Chopper was now about ten feet from Erick's face. "Hey, whatever that plan was, you should probably do it now!" Jonah exclaims with a worried tone. "Yeah." Erick says bluntly with a straight face. Chopper squats down, ready to pounce onto the Black Pearl but as he did this his eyes widen with surprise as he looked down and saw the sea below him but not his surf boat. Chopper looked back up and saw his surf boat a few feet in front of him.
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Chopper falls into the sea with complete shock on his face. 'What the hell just happened and why am I not moving? That rookie couldn't have used Control Aura… could he?' Chopper thinks to himself with a face of complete rage as The Black Pearl sped off and Erick was smiling and waving at chopper as a white crow flies beside Chopper. "Chopper we need you back at Fruit island, Captain Neoma showed up" the Crow says. "Did you take care of the Boy?" The crow asks. "No and I can't move right now so you guys are on your own." Chopper says bluntly. "What happened? How did that kid defeat you?" The crow asks with a slightly surprised tone. "He can use Control Aura, I can tell it's a garbage version but because I can't use Aura at all it sufficed." Chopper says as he was still swimming in the same spot. "How bad is it?" Chopper asks. "The Captains are currently engaged in battle on the shore and the rest of our forces are engaged with Navigator Vivian." The crow says. "Hm." Chopper says to himself as he stares at the black Pearl sailing away.
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"Okay so do you wanna explain what that was?" Jonah asks with a confused face. Erick turns around and smiles at Jonah. "I don't know." He says as he chuckles at him. "You get stranger and stranger the more I know you." Jonah says with a slouched face. Captain Thorne and Captain Neoma were both standing a few feet away from each other on the white sand of Beast Island. Thorne's eyes widen with shock as Neoma smirked at him. "Now do you understand? I do not wish to quarrel with you but I know that that boy will find it… he'll find the North Star." Neoma says. "Impossible, that boy is a rookie, how could he be able to use Aura… what is his name?" Chopper asks in an aggressive tone. Neoma shrugs her shoulders. "I have no idea but I attempted to use my neutral Aura and he countered that with his own." Neoma says.
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Thorne looks down with a solemn face. "As honored as I am to face such a prestigious Pathfinder, there are other matters to take care of." Thorne says as the spikes protruding from his arms start to recede back into his skin. "I agree." Neoma says as he throws her umbrella to her and she catches it. "Are you going after the boy?" She asks with a curious tone. "Why do you care? Are you planning on protecting him." Thorne asks with a face of scorn. "I don't know. It depends on how I'm feeling at the moment." She says as she begins to walk to ward the forest. "As for the gold here…" Neoma says as she turns her head back to look at Thorne. "… you will have to fight me for that." She says with a grin as she then begins walking back into the forest again. Thorne scoffs with a smirk on his face. "Stupid woman, you better not try and get in my way." Thorne says with a sly grin.
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Jonah was steering the Black Pearl as Erick was sitting down eating a bowl of Salt clam soup. "So do you have any other weird things you can do that you wanna tell me?" Jonah asks with a smirk. "No, I think you've seen about all of it… what's this town we're going to called?" Erick asks with a curious face. "The town is called Arton… I've been there before, they're a town of parties." Jonah says to Erick. "Town of parties? That sounds like my kinda town." Erick says with an ecstatic smile. "It's exactly how it sounds, the town is super lively and welcoming so this is a good stop to restock on supplies." Jonah says bluntly. "Yeah but don't they have parties?" Erick asks with a confused look. "Yeah… so what?" Jonah replies with a baffled face. "So we won't need supplies because we'll just eat at the parties… won't we?" Erick asks with a blank stare. Jonah began hitting him on the head profusely. "WE NEED SUPPLIES FOR WHEN WE ARE SAILING AT SEA YOU MORON!!!" Jonah yell with rage.
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"And party or not, we shouldn't stuff our faces with food." Jonah says to Erick. "Whattt, why not?" Erick says as he slouches his face in disappointment. "Chopper was just tailing us you idiot, that means that Captain Thorne and his entire crew will be after us soon so we need to stay ready." Jonah says with a straight face. "Stay ready, got it." Erick says while making a serious face but it came out goofy. "Oh whatever." Jonah says as if he was stressed out. Some time had passed and the two of them had finally landed at the Harbor of Arton. Erick steps off of The Black Pearl and begins to stretch his body while yawning and as he opened his eyes he saw dozens of small shops along the street with hundreds of people walking throughout the town. There were horse like creatures that had puffy fur like a sheep would, children playing with each other, and everyone he saw was smiling.
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Erick's face lit up with excitement as he took one large breath into his body. "So this is Arton, huh?" Erick asks with a wide smile. Jonah walks beside him with a smile. "Sure is, The Town of parties." Jonah says with a smile. "THIS IS SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!" Erick yells causing a few of the pedestrians to look at him. Jonah hit Erick on the back of the head. "Calm down you're making a scene!" Jonah whispers loudly. "We need to find-" Jonah began but was cut off by Erick squealing loudly. Jonah looked over to him with an offended face as he saw Erick pointing forward with a large smile on his face. Jonah looks in the direction that Erick was pointing and then he touched his face in annoyance. "Oh no." Jonah says in an exhausted tone as he saw a candy shop right in front of them. "CANDYYYY!!" Erick yells as he begins to sprint toward the candy shop.
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Jonah grabs the collar of Erick's jacket, holding him back from running. "Hey let go, it's so close yet so far!" Erick exclaims as his eyes begin to swell up with tears. "Just relax, we can get the candy later. How much money do you have?" Jonah asks him causing Erick to look back at Jonah with a face of embarrassment. "Seriously?" Jonah says annoyed. Erick chuckles childishly. "So if we aren't going to get candy then where are we going?" Erick asks curiously. "To find supplies, then we're leaving." Jonah says bluntly. "Leaving? But we just got here." Erick says in a pouty voice. "Do you even think? Our original destination was fruit island and plus, staying in one town for an entire day is just asking Thorne and his Team to catch up to us, we need to keep moving." Jonah says with a serious face. "Blah. Blah. Blah. Let's just go." Erick says in a bored and unwilling tone.
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Erick and Jonah were walking through the stone streets of Arton. "I can't find the supplies market anywhere"Jonah says. 'I really don't want to ask for directions though' he thinks to himself with embarrassment. Erick walks up to a man talking to a woman. "Hey do you know where I can get some supplies." Erick asks with a smile. Jonah reels back in fear. 'Ah, he's asking people for directions.' Jonah thinks to himself with worry. "Uhh yeah. It's six buildings down on your right." The man says back to Erick with a smile. "Thanks gramps!" Erick says with a smile, causing the man to ponder over his words. Erick runs back to Jonah who was still in shock. "I found out where the supplies market is." Erick says to him. "Oh did you really?" Jonah asks back with an annoyed face.
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Erick and Jonah arrive at the supplies market. It was a small building with a sign at the top that said 'supplies and more'. Jonah pushes open the door and walks in as Erick follows behind him. The shop was split into four sections. On the right side closest to the entrance was for weapons and armor. On the left side closest to the door was the exploration and guide section. On the far right side was the food and cooking section and on the far left side was a section for clothing and attire. "We only have around one hundred thousand Estos so we're just here for the food." Jonah says as he turns to Erick but when he did he realized that Erick was gone. Jonah began looking around frantically to find him and when he did he saw that Erick was in the clothing section, rummaging through them.
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Jonah appeared beside him with a face of rage looking over Erick. "I was just looking." Erick says in a squeamish and wimpy voice right before Jonah began to hit him profusely. Jonah and Erick walk out of the store. Erick had multiple knots on his head and was carrying two large crates, filled with supplies they had just bought. "That should be good enough until we land again, let's get back to the ship." Jonah says with a smile on his face. "Hold on." Erick says as he places the crates down and begins walking off. "Hey where are you going, we got our supplies so we can leave now." Jonah says annoyed but then his eyes widen with surprise. A tall fat man was standing over a woman with his hand out and a villainous smile on his face. They were standing outside of a bar called the Salt Lamp. The man wore a pirate hat that had a fish skeleton as a design on it. He had on a black trench coat with purple pants and green shoes and behind him were three other men all wearing the same exact outfit but instead of trench coats they wore white and black dotted tshirts.
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"Please, my rent is due soon and I have three kids, please don't take this money from me." The woman pleads with the man, while on her knees. "Twah. Twah. Twah." The man laughs in a preppy but goofy tone. "Did you truly believe that I would care about your worthless children? Hand over the money now or else." The man says while villainously grinning at the woman. "Or else what?" Erick says as he walks up a few feet behind the woman. All four of the men look at Erick with a blank stare and then they begin to burst out laughing boisterously. "TWAH. TWAH. TWAH. Run back to your mommy kid or you'll never get to see her again." The man says with a grin. "I never knew my mom." Erick says bluntly. "Oh great an orphan!" One of the men in the back say causing the rest of the men to burst out in laughter once again. "I said leave her alone." Erick says in a serious tone as he begins to tighten his fists.
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"What are you gonna-" the man in the front began to ask but was cut off as Erick ran at him with a face of rage. The three men in the back widened their eyes with shock as Erick ran past the woman and punched the man in the front clean in the jaw and as the man flew backwards onto the ground, Erick caught her purse and handed it back to her. "Thank you so much young man, thank you so much." The woman says with joy and gratitude gleaming from her eyes. "No problem!" Erick says with a wide smile as the three men gather around their leader. One of the men looks up at Erick with bullets of sweat coming down his face. "Do you know who you're dealing with? You just hit the vice captain of the Kekela Exploration team." The man says in an enraged tone. "The who now?" Erick says back with a baffled look.
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"Whatever kid, you'll get what's coming to ya." The man says as all three of them drag their vice captain away, unconscious. "Now look what you've gotten us into." Jonah says with an annoyed tone. "Come on Jonah, that guy was trying to rob someone." Erick says with a saddened face. "Yeah. Yeah. Whatever, let's just get moving before you cause more problems." Jonah says in a stern tone as both of them begin to walk away. "Wait!" The woman exclaims, causing Jonah and Erick to turn around in surprise. "Please tell me your name?" The woman says in a soft voice. She wore a blue short sleeve shirt with blue jeans and a white bandanna wrapped around her forehead. "I'm Captain Erick Drake!" He says with a wide smile while pointing at himself with his thumb. The woman grabs Erick's hands and covers them with hers. "Thank you so much Captain Erick, is there anyway I can repay you… are you two hungry by chance?" She asks them softly.
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"Oh no we should-" Jonah began but Erick cut him off. "Who's cookin?" Erick says with a wide smile. "My home is right outside of town, we'll be having lunch soon if you would like to join us." The woman says with a comforting smile. "Alright, what are we waiting for, let's go!" Erick exclaims with glee. "Erick. We can't stay, we need to get to Fruit island and plus those Pathfinders are most definitely going to come back for what you did to their vice captain." Jonah says with worry. "And not to mention, we are still being chased by one of the twelve titans of the sea" Jonah reminds him. "Jonah I already know all of that. I was there remember?" Jonah says with a smile. "Just relax, we're broke aren't we?" Erick asks with a smirk. "Yeah but what's that got to do with anything?" Jonah asks with a confused face. "Well whoever this Captain Kekela person is must have a decent sized Bounty… right?!" Erick says with a grin filled with adventure and confidence, causing Jonah and the woman's eyes to widen with surprise.
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