One piece: A new journey

[dk123]

Lex was grinning to himself as he continued to cut and chop the last of the vegetables, tonight was the night he was going to fulfil his dreams and set sail at last. "Hey Lex! You almost finished?" The boy's thoughts were interrupted by a gruff voice and a knock at the door. "Yeah I'm done!" He replied before picking up a sack of vegetables and opening the door. "Lex listen, some of the boys from the navy are coming round next week and I was wondering if-" Thrusting the sack into the man's stomach and winding him slightly, Lex smiply shook his head and walked out of the small tavern and towards the dock.

It was a warm spring night, the moon was directly over the the dockyard indicating that midnight had finally arrived. "I wonder how many are gonna turn up." Lex said excitedly to himself, standing with his arms folded looking out at the many boats that had docked in the small town. "Well nothing to do but wait I guess."

[ChrisShuzen]

Young Shuzen was in his gear, he simply thought to himself. A way off this island with strangers I don't even know? A fugitive of the navy. Is this what I really want? To be with pirates? What if they judge me? Or mistreat me? Than what? Life is easily replacable. But if I have to kill them to save me - I will. But maybe I can get with a hotty and everything will be all good? Hehe. He thought as he swam up behind Lex, jumping from the water into a handstand, twirling a large crossbow in his hands as he handed Lex his application. He removed his water tight mask, his hair looked nice and clean, he opened his eyes, they were dark emerald green, most suprising of all was - He was a neko. " Christopher Aurea Shuzen here." he said with a smile.

[dk123]

Lex almost had a heart attack as the boy leapt from the water, he turned around just in time to get one of his application forms handed back to him but he couldn't read it, his attention and gaze were both transfixed on something else. "C-C-C" Lex quietly stammered. "CAT PERSON!" He squealed excitedly with a huge grin, he couldn't believe his luck, his first crew member was a cat person! He calmed himself and stepped back. *Ahem* "Sorry, I've got a thing for the unusual. Now lets see you're application." He quickly looked over the form picking, out the important parts. "Navigator eh? Hmm..." He brought the paper away from his face. "Christopher...I think you'll make a fine crew member." Extending a hand to shake Lex decided to introduce himself. "I'm Lex Walker, pleasure to meet you."

[ChrisShuzen]

Chris was startled by the Grin, it looked like a rape face to him, in fact it was quite odd, at the same time he blushed, no one was friendly with him - Much less a boy. He appriciated the attention however. He simply extended a shaking hand. Lex was different, he liked different. He just was curious what is instore for him by staying with Lex. He finally shaked his hand, but Chris was wearing a water and air skintight suit. It was ment for sneaking, the only disadvantage was it was extremely revealing as it was flexable. It covered from his neck all the way to the heel of his feet, he had the most feminine frame at that. " Pleasure is all mine... by the way. I never miss twice." he said still blushing.

[Shoryu]

If he thought 'that' was a rape face grin, he was about to be in for a surprise, Kuro had actually moved something to docks earlier when he'd gotten notice of this 'crew making' going on, in preparation of getting the hell out of there, early preparation and all that, and he was on his way there with the last bits of what was water-proofed enough to survive the trip under-water. It was maybe a coincidental minute or so after Chris had arrived and introduced himself, when a very quiet sound of moving water could be heard [fins], Then a sudden silent, a splash, and Kurosh launched himself out of the water towards the docks, getting enough air to flip in mid air before landing with his claws feet on the edge of a large craft, where he squatted with a potentially mad toothy grin on his face "Oi, Am I that early? or is everyone else just late?" He had a couple of well sealed sacks tied together by a rope that laid across his neck, 'just' pants on, and a number of round objects hanging from the belt along with a long sword.

He chuckled slightly, before his claws reached into a slot in the crate he was squatted ontop of, tail lashing about quite excitedly as he pulled the only slightly damp edged application paper out of the wooden container and held it out to the obvious human there "Kurosh Semakel, Reporting for hell raising... well, not literally of course, This is supposed to be quiet right?... unless of course you decide you want something blowed up." his grin just widened a little more before the other claw withdrew from the crate, holding a little box, from which he produced a little black stick, and flicked it across the edge of the box, where it flared for an instant before ebbing to a slow glow, after which he placed it between his teeth, apparently it was some sort of 'insta light' cigarette.

[WitchChild]

A small, two storie bar at the docks was a black haired male teen was serving the drinks since the barmaid had called in sick. That made the male patrons rather disappointed. The boy didn't mind it, it being just the usual day at work. He was getting annoyed and frustrated at this job and wanted to get out more. He inadvertantly started to think about the sword that was now tucked under his bed. It was valuable enough for him to buy a small ship and a crew though he dismissed that idea, rather going to the idea of looking for the legendary weapons that were the brother and sister blades of his own. He got all the drinks in place and started to clean up around the tavern. One of those cleaning duties was to go ahead and empty the trash and the most easy way and common was just to open the window and throw it out. This time he did so aswell, not knowing that a fishman boy was not that far away and unfortunately within the reach of the wet and sticky garbage.

[Shoryu]

Kuro was plenty content to wait quietly for the boy to take his paper and be ready to go, then he heard a noticeable sound of mucky wet stuff moving through the air and let it go, just in time for the paper to avoid being splattered, and he turned away from the sound to avoid his cigarette getting mucked as well, only to be assaulted by wet slopping and splashing noises. A moment later he turned back, in the same position, though now decidedly filthy and covered in goo and muck, his 'grin' was now a flat unamused expression "Normally, I would pretend that didn't just happen... but normally I'm not sitting ontop of a crate filled with explosive ordinance... and normally something like that doesn't happen in the middle of an exciting moment... so please excuse me for a moment." With that he reached a hand down under himself, shifting off the lid as he pulled out a baseball sized bomb, and in one swift motion brought it up to his cigarette, lit, the fuse, and then whirled around, leaping up and flinding it through the window the garbage had come out of before anyone could do anything to interupt him, and a moment later fell right back into the water next to the pier and went about cleaning himself.

In the burning there'd be a decidedly solid thud as the bomb thumped off of one of the tables, the short fuse burning out quickly before it exploded in mid air, though rather than your standard 'firey death explosion', It released a wave of Pepper powder through-out the room, showering everything in it, easily causing itching, burning, and sneezing fits on anyone close enough to be coated with the contents of it, visible clouds could be seen pouring out of the windows. A few moments later Kuro climbed back up against the edge of the pier, holding himself with his head against the floor and panting softly "oh my god... the smell... why garbage? and 'now' of all freaking times... bloody lucky my crate is water tight." He began to grumble softly as he went about splashing water up against the fairly well sealed crate, and flinging/wiping the muck off of it and from around it "ohhhh, my poor nose..."

[xMirai]

Ella Mae saw them before she got into polite speaking range, and had to stop herself from turning around and walking right back to her one-night hotel and begging for one more night. She watched discreetly as a young man with a feminine frame and, were those...ears? introduced himself. She craned her neck around the 2 crates she was hiding behind in order to get a glimpse at who he was talking to. It looked like another young man, this time with blonde hair that was noticeable even by the moonlight. Afterwards, a fishman had arrived. A fishman! How lucky! Ella Mae hadn't even met one before, let alone get to study one.

Brushing any dirt from her dress, Ella Mae approached them, and was about to speak when the fishman got, uh, covered in garbage. Jumping back so that she wouldn't smell it, she covered her nose, just in case the smell reached her. She shifted her backpack uneasily behind her, her one and only luggage. She shook her head before she could get sidetracked. "Normally, I would pretend that didn't just happen... but normally I'm not sitting on top of a crate filled with explosive ordinance... and normally something like that doesn't happen in the middle of an exciting moment... so please excuse me for a moment," the fishman spoke, and Ella Mae scrunched her nose as he reached into the crate below him and, appearing to light it, threw it back into an open window. "Hey, wait," Ella Mae began, alarmed that he was about to blow up an entire restaurant of innocent people. "That wasn't for real, right?" Ella Mae said sternly, her eyebrows coming together apprehensively.

A soft 'thump' went off, and she glanced towards the restaurant in fear, only to see a black cloud-like substance pouring out of the window like smoke. Blinking repeatedly, she turned back towards the fishman, who was now on the floor next to his crate and holding his nose. She glanced around wildly towards the other two, the neko and the blonde, saying, "That black smoke isn't harmful, is it? Those people are not hurt, right?" She asked, and although her voice was soft, her fear for the innocents was unmistakable. While she spoke, she reached into her large backpack, feeling around for her perfume bottle, which she handed to the fishman without really thinking about it. His moaning about his nose was making Ella feel sorry for him.

[Shoryu]

Kuro was still going about cleaning off his crate full of 'precious cargo', his tail actually curled up to cover his nose so his hands were both free, the sight of a new arrival bordering on a freak out because of his bomb toss amused him enough to return a slight grin to his muzzle "well. I suppose it could've hit someone... but really people tend not to drag garbage threw a 'crowded' room and throw it out the window, unless it's people anyway... Besides, It's just a pepper powder bomb... hmmm, someone could be allergic to it I guess, but It'll mainly just be unimaginably annoying and uncomfortable... like being showered in garbage... I've got a bomb recipe for just about everything... cept maybe putting people back together... bombs are smart enough for that... yet. heheh."

[dk123]

Lex hadn't said a word, he had just stared with a dumbstruck expression and his mouth slightly open. In front of him, walking and talking, was a fish man...And better yet he wanted to join the crew, and he had also demonstrated his speciality there was no question about it. He stepped closer to the Kuro who was still cleaning his crates, he was probably making him a little uncomfortable and he spoke with a childish grin slowly starching across his face. "Kuro. Um, you're in. You can join the pirate crew." He couldn't contain it anymore, he had to know! Lex slowly moved his hand out and touched the fish man's skin. It felt as all other fish did. With his curiosity satisfied, he moved his hand away and wiped it on his shirt.

It was then that he noticed a more feminine voice, was it a succbus? A witch? Another cat person?! No...It was just an ordinary, bog standard human being...How boring. "Um...Hello, can I help you with something?" A woman on a boat? Wasn't that bad luck? Surely it was some kind of mistake and she was just looking for someone else.