Keep Your Head Up! [Goggle Recruitment 2; Toramdey

[Izananana!]

Emi hadn't been on the ship for very long drifting on the sea after pushing off from Woonan. She had lost someone that could have been on her crew to a couple of bounty hunters but she wasn't going to give up. She was going to get a crew and sail to the Grandline! If she gave up now just because she had lost one chance then she would loose sight of her dream and that would make her mad. She was going to keep going until the very end and find the One Piece!

It probably seemed really pointless coming from her though as her current condition would say. She had been drifting for at least a day after being injured back on Woonan and she still was out of food. She had done a crappy job of bandaging her wounds and hadn't changed them either. She was tired and couldn't really stand moving because it hurt to do so. She had collapsed probably about mid day the day before and hadn't really moved since then.

She didn't react nearly the same way she had a couple days previous when she felt her ship hit into a dock. She just laid on her ship and tried to gather up some strength. If she wasn't careful when getting out of her boat then she'd fall into the sea and sink to the bottom. It would all be over in just one simple jump and she didn't want that to happen. That would be the end of her journey and her mother would never know what had happened to her.

The green haired girl rolled to her side while flinching but didn't grab a hold of her stomach that had been ran through with a sword back at the previous island. It wouldn't do her much good if she did as it would just hurt even worse. She pushed herself up slowly and got to her feet. She wobbled a bit as she started to walk to the edge of her ship catching herself on the small mast as she almost fell and continued on to tie her ship to the dock. Alright it was time to go find some people to recruit to her crew!

She didn't have nearly as much energy as she usually had and if anyone she knew saw her they'd know something was off. The chances of her actually running into them was zero to none though and that was probably a good thing. She would never want them going back to her mother and reporting that she had gotten hurt already. She was sure that she had done something wrong when tending to her wounds but having no knowledge of such things she didn't know what it might have been. She thought that bandages were supposed to make your wounds feel better but they had only made her feel worse.

It took far more energy to actually push herself up onto the docks of the island she had landed on than she had expected. She was breathing heavy from the little energy she had left being spent on pulling herself up on the pier and her vision was getting blurry again. She just had to stand back up again so that she could find herself a crew and maybe also see a doctor. She would probably would have been better off going to find a doctor right off the bat because of her current condition but that wasn't really all in her mind. She sat there at beside the edge of the dock where she had lifted herself up from her ship and tried catching her breath as well as to recover some energy.

Emi probably sat there for a good 2 or 3 minutes before she went about standing up again and wobbled at she did. She steered herself away from the edge of the dock so she wouldn't fall into the sea and started forward to go into the village. She didn't make it very far, however, before she just collapsed from her energy being spent already and just laid there in about the middle of the dock. The people that were on the dock that lived in the the village seemed to avoid her like the plague not wanting to help someone that looked like bad news from her wounds or could have some illness that they could catch. She was just left there to die or to regain consciousness and continued on some more before probably collapsing again. Even as she rested unconscious and helpless still continued to breath heavy and upon further examination it would be made clear that she had a fever on top of her wounds.

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The slow rocking of the sea was nice, it had become comforting to the girl who lay on a bench on deck seeming to stare blankly into the sky. Filiya had been on this ship for a while by now, Baratie was a long whiles away from their current position. Whistling to herself she wondered what would happen next to her on this adventure. It was usual for her to barter for rides with people she met on her way. Her skills as a doctor tended to be enough to assure her a ride as long as she didn't do anything too stupid. The people she was getting a ride from currently were however, different from the usual type. She normally stuck to merchants going from town to town, but these two were different. They were on an escort mission, one escorting the other. Of what she had been told she had been sworn into secrecy and told that if she did anything fishy that she was liable to be shot by the escort. That had kept her fairly quiet along the journey, she didn't want to do anything to increase her chances of getting shot. She wasn't a particularly strong fighter so she didn't stand a chance against Lufe who was protecting York.

Of her two companions she knew very little. York, the female was highly hysterical. A bit overly connected to her escort Lufe Filiya thought personally, her reaction back at Baratie to his possible death was quite . . . overwhelming to say the least. She was different was really the only way Filiya could describe her. For York was not only the weakest link of their party (or at least seemed as much) but was also the strongest weapon they had. For she held a power which Filiya had not seen before, Lufe had named it Haki. And it was quite the sight, it had on its own taken out a whole crew of pirates with only a yell. Yet Filiya was unsure if it was something that York could control, seeing as York only used it in the most dangerous of situations. Though possibly that was for secrets sake and nothing more. Both were possible answers to why that was true, anyways York was well . .. York. Lufe on the other hand seemed a lot simpler to read. He was a cyborg, well that was the best term for it. The lower half of his body and one of his arms were entirely mechanical, no flesh and blood to be seen. Even with the kind of creakiness of the metal parts of his body he was very laid back. He made jokes and relaxed whenever he could. At the same time he was very much determined to complete his job to perfection. The protection of York was his most important ideal it seemed, a laudable way of thinking. He basically put his job first, even willing to put his life on the line to ensure the completion of said job. He showed a lot of experience in his movements and his handling of a gun. Filiya had not met anyone quite like him either, though York was still the odder of the two she thought.

Sitting up from her place on the bench she looked out in front of the boat. She had been told the next island wasn't too far away and ever since a day ago she had made it routine to come and check to see if an island was in view. Coming up once every few hours she was quite interested in getting onto land again. Filiya wanted to acquire some new chemicals for her experimentation. She had been working on her EV Type-EXP, she needed it in a form that was more reliable, the current one could be triggered randomly and also ended up as a dud some time. Those of course made it horribly useless because she never knew whether it would work exactly how she wanted it to. It was to put it in one word random. But now as she looked out over the horizon she could see a mass in the distance. Watching it for a while she made sure it wasn't a large ship or something that had appeared without them noticing. It was in fact an island, and as they came closer she walked over to find Lufe. He was also sleeping somewhere on deck, there was only one bed on the ship and York was afforded the liberty of sleeping on that bed.

Patting him on the shoulder she bent down (not far) and said quietly. "Hey Lufe, we are almost at the next island. Come on get up, we've got to get some more supplies for the journey." Considering whether to wake York as well she decided against it. If Lufe was going to come down surely he would take York with him. It was his job as an escort anyways, so no worries there eh. Moving back to the front of the boat she leaned on the rail as the boat slowly moved in to dock. The town seemed quaint, a little too quiet but then that was generally okay. A long road lined with small bushes led from the docks into the middle of town. But now as she looked out from her spot she could see someone on the dock, lying face down people completely avoiding him/her. As the boat came in closer Filiya could see that it was a green haired girl, a small pool of blood was obvious on her side. Immediately Filiya went into action, as a doctor there was no way she could just not help someone in need. Grabbing her med kit she hopped over the edge of the boat landing on the dock.

She yelled back at the ship "HEY LUFE! GET OUT HERE QUICKLY. THERES A GIRL WHO NEEDS SOME HELP!!" Running up to the figure on the ground she kneeled down next to her. Placing two fingers on the girl's neck she checked for a pulse. There was one, it was faint but now she could feel the warm breath of the girl on her cheek. Rolling her over she immediately looked to where the blood stain was. Pushing up the girl's shirt she revealed bloody bandages which were horribly placed over a wound that was still bleeding out Looking back at her med kit she pulled out her own bandages and while ripping off the girl's bandages started to place her own on it. Annoyed at the people who were simply walking around them she called out "Lufe get over here!"

Fixing a bandage onto the girl's side she quickly checked for any other wounds. There didn't seem to be any, but the girl was still in a fairly bad condition. Placing her hand on the girl's forehead she noticed that the girl had a fever. She needed a place to rest that wasn't on the floor of the dock. "LUFE! Get over here and help me carry this girl onto the ship!"

[Tori Tori Chopper]

'Why did I even let York convince me to bring her along.'

After being nudged, and now shouted at, the cyborg continued to lounge with his hat over his face, resting beside the wooden door into the only room of the ship, he had to no suprise slept throughout the entire journey. Without York to wake him up at regular intervals to scream at things and the waters being as calm as they were, his mind was at peace, only waking up a few times only to move to a different location and fall asleep again. The whole commotion was something he was used to, though it wasn't goggles shouts and pleas of annoyance which he had to defend, he raised his hat to examine the surroundings for his own curiosity though. Conomi island was it? He'd been here before on a clean up a while back, he couldn't put his finger on the task exactly but the view sparked memories from the back of his head. 'Supplies? Ugh, she just had to remind me of food didn't she.' He figured he may as well then, they needed a few more supplies to last them to the next station, and it wouldn't be long until York was out and screaming like her usual self. He stood up from his scrunched up position beside the door, stretching his arms and adjust his hat to block out the sudden ray from the sun behind him. 'What was she yelling about anyway..' He squinted his still sleepy eyes across the dock, noticing the goggled woman leaning over another with quite a bit of pace about her, had her medical bag with her and everything. 'Oh right, another girl who's down on her luck.' He shook his head at the thought, how did he even get himself into these kinds of situations? It was always some little kid getting themselves into to trouble and him getting out of his way to help them out, though he was telling himself this as he exited the boat and moved to aid them in the most hypercritical way to his previous protests.

'Ah right, she came from that boat over there and just fell down.' He seemed to almost find this quite amusing, though disguising it behind general lack of enthusiasm in case he insulted any fibre of this Goggles doctor's being. 'Why on my ship? Can't she just be treated in one of the houses?' Goggles didn't seem to protest, but he knew that meant it wasn't an option and that he should just shut up and do it. He leaned down and grabbed the woman, waiting for Goggles to finish up any kind of pre-bandaging before picking her up by her legs and shuffling her up and over his shoulder before casually walking back to the ship and dropping her onto the bench which circles the ships deck. 'Haha, this girls got goggles too. Guess I'll have to call her Goggles Two then.' He chuckled to himself despite the probably seriousness of the situation, looking back to the town with a curious glance before noting something which had happened on this very same street. 'This place must be just full of bad luck.' He moved his head towards the room of the ship, increasing the volume of his voice ever so slightly, though still retaining that lifeless appeal to it. 'Didn't some guy with a Hard-Hat or something fall over on this street a couple of weeks ago? He caused a big commotion didn't he York?' Why he was shouting at a door soon became evident as the girl, now dressed in knee length shorts and a tank top as well as her riddling satchels and numerous belts emerged from the room of the ship with a curious look on her face much like the Cyborgs. 'Yea.. It was in the papers.' She rubbed her eyes to adjust to the sun, seemingly unaffected from the events that had happened before, easily shrugged off would be a nice way to describe it. 'You gunna go walk-about Lufe? I wanna come..'

'Up on your feet a lot faster than last time, I give you that.' He gave a light clap to bring humour to the otherwise awkward situation, York proceeding to tackle Lufe without much success to even budging him, though her true motives were revealed as she appeared with her legs hung over his shoulders, using his giant hat as a pillow as she slumped down on his head. 'Walk abooout, yaaay~' Rauth had every right to just flail her off, though it was much too early for him to care about a hitch-hiker, and sadly too early to care about something which wasn't his job either. 'York, this is Goggles Two.' He pointed to the slumped body on the bench, York waving effortlessly as Rauth moved off the ship and into town. 'Guess we could go look at the park again, I hear those guys messed that place up too.' He stopped in his tracks, turning back to the boat as with every turn York's lifeless arms flung in the same direction. 'I'll be in town if you need me, don't touch anything on the ship and uh... Hope she gets better, you can meddle in my supplies in the crate if you need anymore bandages.' He gave a light salute as he moved into town. He needed to figure out their next tactical transport would be since this place was under a lot of pressure. Marines, Pirates, Remaining Fishmen from multiple incidents past. Admittedly this was one of the worst places to bring a high value revolutionary individual. Though its not like it was his fault.

He was asleep the whole time.

[SHADE SMASH]

Red eyes glared hotly as the person who owned them straightened her back and crossed their arms over their chest in an overbearing, intimidating nature! Her eyes gleamed like with anger and rage that looked akin to red hot pokers straight from the fire and carried the same nasty burn they delivered. What reason could there possibly be for this young girl to be frustrated beyond all reason?

B. had began the day perfectly fine with a good attitude and an amazingly cute outfit! A pink dress that hugged her stick like figure other than the mounds that presented as poor excuses for breasts, with what looked like a faint green light at the center of her chest. The classy dress then developed into a ruffled pink skirt bayond the waist that reached her mid-thigh. Finished with a small black jacket like apparel around her shoulders and gray English stockings before ending with red tennis shoes. It was her perfect out fit!

She loved it! More than anything else she possibly owned and wearing it shopping while getting supplies simply made her feel all the more perky and happy! But somehow, that enthusiasm was flushed down the drain as she began shopping. This place may seem great and all with a wild past, but some have already started taking advantage of the fact that they were the Home Town of Cat Burgler Nami.

So B. may not be one that holds onto her money tightly, but she doesn't throw away 100,000 on a 2 day food pack!!! THATS JUST PLAIN RIDICULOUS!! Whoever made those prices were bound to be attack at some point, so here was the cowarding man before B.'s full onslaught of anger. Whether you be marines or pirates, or a villager! Everyone was just the same filled with a conceited sense of greed and these people made that fact!

"H-how about 20,000?" The man quickly said, trying to reason with the lady, already sweating quite a lot under her blistering gaze. Seeing how far the price went down, B. assumed that this was the true price of the object and frowned at the man before pulling out 40,000 and placing it on the table offering the man a sweet smile. "Now that wasn't so hard." She said as she placed her fore finger on the money and pushed it towards him on the counter with her other hand placed behind her back.

He muttered a whatever as he ushered around the room to get enough for a four day food pack. He didn't seem to be doing it very happily, grumbling with every chance he recieved. At last, he placed the boxes of food on the counter and snatched the money before retreating behind the store. Sighing, B. grabed hold of the things, adding it to the bags of items she already had in tow. This was the 5th shop she had to intimidate in order to get a just amount of supply per beri.

Walking out the door, she mentally calculated the money she had left when her airiness caused her to collide with someone else, dropping all her items to the floor. Angry and distraught, she ignored the other man to quickly gather her items fearing that she was going to lose something in the crowd!(Forgive me >.> feeling somewhat slow right now I guess)

[Izananana!]

"So you actually didn't accomplish anything?"

She could hear someone chuckling and she started spinning around in a circle as she looked for the source. She wasn't sure who was there but she was pretty positive that she knew that voice. It was all too familiar as it used to scold her all the time when she was a kid. It even told her before she left that she'd end up dead before becoming a pirate. She wasn't able to see anything around her though as everything was pitch black but she could still hear him.

"I never wanted you to leave in the first place."

Emi was confused now as the voice from earlier had faded as it echoed around her and changed to that a softer one. It sounded like it was choking on tears. This voice she recognized as well and the sound of it crying made her sad. She seemed to only miss that one person in particular after having left her village to start her career as a pirate. She looked around as she had before looking to find where they were so she could comfort them but as before she could see anything.

"Pfft. You're still too weak to handle anything. Stupid Gogglehead! Should have realized you wouldn't make it before hand!"

More voices started to ring out this time as three or four people sounding around her age started to mock her. She knew these voices all to well too and she would probably never forget them the most. They were the ones that ridiculed her practically all her life and even if she may have ignored them it didn't mean she never heard them. It was probably this time that they actually hit her the most and the hardest. She wasn't aware that this was all just a very bad dream but it seemed to be real to her.

"You're not giving up already, are you? You still have a long ways to go! That's nothing but a mere cut, Emi! You can't let that bring you down!"

The teasing voices all seemed to fade away in an instant and another voice sounded in this dark space. This voice, however, she was not familiar with and had no clue who it was. It wasn't mocking her like the other voices were though but instead encouraging her. She had a bewildered look upon her face as she tried to find him but unlike the other times she tried to find who the voices belonged to she could see him. Or more like light shining onto his silhouette.

"Be a good girl and wake up before you throw your dream away! Keep fighting the negative things off! You'll make it! I know it! You're my daughter after all!"

Emi just stared after the silhouette as it started to fade away and a light washed over area. She had never met the person who she could only dream he could have been and so she didn't know anything about him except for his adventures. Her mother never had a photo of him and she could only describe him so much to her. She knew she shared her personality from him and that she shared his eyes as well as her hair color with him too. This was a dream after all so she was probably imagining what his voice was like but the words still hit her.

The green haired girl shot up so fast that she probably would have collided with anyone that was looking over her. She soon regretted this action though as she grasped at her stomach and rested back on what she was lying on. Speaking of which, where exactly was she. The last thing she remembered was falling while trying to get to the village and this certainly didn't look like the dock she had collapsed on. She propped herself up on her elbows as she tried to get a better look of her surroundings.

Emi noticed that the bandages that had been around stomach and rather gross looking at that were clean. Did that mean someone had been tending to her wound since she had been incapable of doing it the correct way? She looked around a bit more and finally laid eyes on the small form of Filiya who had treated to her wound after she collapsed. She blinked a couple of times as she just stared at her and wondered if she was a doctor. She could just be someone who knew a lot about medicine instead of an actual doctor but if she was then she could recruit her. Someone with enough knowledge of fixing her up would be nice enough and she could tell that she'd need one.

"Are you a doctor?" Emi decided to ask the girl as she continued to stare at her.

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Filiya grinned slightly as Lufe complained about the fact that she needed to treat the green-haired girl on his ship. He complained yes, but he didn't protest it more than once. He knew well enough that a doctor's rule was final, if you don't follow what your doctor says you are most likely viable to die. Listening to doctors is the right thing to do duhhh ~. Lufe gave up and then noticing something said to himself"Haha, this girls got goggles too. Guess I'll have to call her Goggles Two then." Hearing this caused Filiya to chuckle sightly, standing up with her basic patch-up job finished as she walked with Lufe up the stairs. Pointing to where she wanted the patient she had the green-haired girl dropped on the bench where she herself had been resting not a few minutes earlier. Dropping her med-kit next to the patient she got ready to continue her inspection of the patient. The fever would need to be dealt with, could probably start by trying to sweat it out. She'd need . . . blankets and probably a hot water bath with a smaller head-towel. Yes yes that would be good, also some food would be required, a healthy diet was always good for this kind of stuff. Hopefully soup, but then you couldn't be too hopeful when you were out of supplies. The food most likely would have to wait until Lufe and York went out and brought back some food for them to cook up. Behind her she caught a comment "Didn't some guy with a Hard-Hat or something fall over on this street a couple of weeks ago? He caused a big commotion didn't he York?". What did that really matter in the first place, they were gone now, and really it wasn't their problem to begin with.

Lufe and York began to talk a bit, Lufe was going out for supplies as Filiya had told him to. No she wasn't the leader of this 'group' if they even actually had a leader. But if anyone was to be the leader it would've been Lufe since he had the most experience. On the other hand she still had to be listened to, importance of doctors ya know. Don't want the doctors to go on strike because they aren't being listened to. What happens if one does something stupid and gets sick, what then? There is no guarantee the doctor will actually help that person. Rule #1 don't piss off the doctor basically! Filiya smiled to herself,it was a good rule, and it was pretty easy to enforce among people who don't know how to properly patch wounds like the green-haired girl. York was now running around the top of the deck, being introduced to Filiya's patient now officially named Goggles Two. Lufe and York now walked off the boat apparently to go see a park or something, Filiya was about to go and remind Lufe of his job but then a call came from back where Lufe stood. "I'll be in town if you need me, don't touch anything on the ship and uh... Hope she gets better, you can meddle in my supplies in the crate if you need anymore bandages." Filiya stood up at the last time to see Lufe give a light salute to her. She saluted him back and then went back down to get back to work.

"Now you, are going to get better . . ." Recently Filiya had been in the habit of talking to herself as if the patient could hear her when she was treating people. Probably not the best practice, but when she was alone it kept her from really being alone. It was like when she had played with her own little toys when she was little, well what little toys she did have. Now then, back to the patient, she worked over the body quickly, there were no other real bruises. She could do a better check now, especially cause she wasn't basically undressing the girl in public but instead on the boat. Having double-checked that there were no other wounds that needed to be cleaned out and bandaged up she returned to the issue of the fever. Walking back under thedeck for a second she grabbed a few of her extra coats and a prepared a bucket of hot water with a small wash rag. Carrying them back up she walked over to Goggles Two. "You know I'm the original Goggles, if that explains why you are Goggles Two . . . now then lets get rid of that fever of yours. Sorry if this gets kind of warm . . . " She began layering the coats over the girl's body. It was common knowledge among physicians that sweating out the fever was one of the most natural ways to combat it. Now she dunked the rag in the hot water, letting it soak for a second before taking it out and ringing it till it was basically dry. She repeated the process and then finally placed across the girl's forehead. It was going to be hot as hell for that girl when she woke up, but it was for her own good you know. And her health came before how she felt. The physician's oath only went so far for Filiya.

Turning around for a second, she made sure that she wasn't forgetting anything, the extra bandages might be helpful. They were not needed yet but probably would be needed knowing Lufe, York and the like, they were bound to get into trouble. Suddenly she heard a whizz and turned around to see Goggles Two sitting up, the rag on the top of her head had flown a little bit across the deck. Filiya stood up, she calmly said "Now then, try to keep still you are still sick." Walking over she grabbed the rag and walked back over, the girl has propped herself up her elbows. Goggles Two was now looking directly at Filiya, asked the simple question "Are you a doctor?"

Filiya smiled lightly and said "Of course dear, but you really have to lay back down, its not good for your health at all." Kneeling down next to Goggles Two she pressed her hands against the girl's body and pushed her back down to a laying position. "Now then Goggles Two, oh i'm sorry that stupid name has stuck to me. I'm Go- i mean I am Filiya, you were stabbed if you didn't know. You won't feel well for a while but thats just because of the fever. It'll pass over soon, just lay there." She smiled, it wasn't something she practiced much but keeping the patient feeling confident in their condition was something that affected their recovery. Washing the rag in the hot water again she went to place it on the girl's forehead.

"So what is your name?"

[Tori Tori Chopper]

'Repair tools?'
'Check'
'Supplies?'
'Check'

The two were causing quite a ruckus amongst the quiet afternoon streets, the bags they had obtained along with their re-stocking assortments for the ship clanked and banged against Rauth's metallic legs as he and York shared the load in a generally lazy fashion. The people around did not seem to stir from what they were doing, maybe used to such nonsense in the early hours maybe? None the less his noise was the only kind he could put up with, Rauth more than happy to no receive complaints from an island in their travels considering the ratio for that was rather one sided. 'We need some food tooooo~' York had been the driver for this little trip, content with her luxury position on Rauth's shoulders she directed him from store to store, getting strange looks as her head poked out from behind his large hat and dropping money into the store owners hands. Simple things like this seemed to cheer her up regardless of what happened before, Rauth left if down to her previous experiences giving her no choice but to blank anything of misfortune or despair from her mind. Rauth didn't think far into the girl in regards to mental structure, much like he didn't think too far into anything besides what he was told to do. All that mattered was that she had a smile on her face, which was a bonus to her otherwise compliance to move to the location they have been told to arrive at. He had to admit though, the little girl in his opinion had hit some sort of soft spot, he wasn't usually this considerate even to his valued individuals, mainly because York wasn't completely useless. His train of thought left him to wander towards the destination York had indicated, only fro him to nudge someone in the process.

'Oh, sorry about tha...' Was this world just turning into a flock of young women? Had they all been a little older than maybe he wouldn't have to feel some sort of extreme guilt for causing all sorts of problems to them, this one in question was some red head who he had just cleaned smacked into around the entrance of the building. 'Lufe! Watch where 'ur going!' He received a nudge with York's heel against his chest, turning back to the frantically collecting girl on the ground and kneeling down beside her, picking up the remaining box of unknown contents and offering it over to her. 'Sorry about that, I was somewhere else.' York flailing herself around rather than verbally protesting her annoyance towards the common act of Rauth just going off into a glance, getting himself lost, ignoring important things. He did it all the time, so for him the ability to apologise with next to no enthusiasm yet still sound was an ability he build from the ground up years ago. 'Not the first woman to protest against it, many a time.' He chuckle to himself, leaving the supplies with the girl once she collected them from his hand, noticing another had been pretty much ruined from the collision. 'Don't worry Miss! We'll get you another one now, just wait here.' York ordered with buck behind her bark, pointing with a giggle as Rauth took to his feet, and crouched through the door. 'Yea, what she said.' Why was he buying stuff for her again? Eh, wasn't like it was his call anyway. The only reason they had gotten this far in good fortune was because York had massive amounts of Beri with her, something which even now he finds unwise to give to a small woman.

'Lets see... One, two...' York began to count on her fingers as Rauth looked around the store with passing glances, it seemed a little more than general, a few bits and bobs of worth amongst the dirt and pointless rubbish. 'Seven! Thats it!' She dangled the money Rauth's hat, the man behind the counter chuckling to himself as he reached up to collect it. 'You have a lovely daughter, Sir. Here on a vacation cruise? I haven't seen you before.' He put on a smile, nodding to any kind of question the man had had as he was handed the supplies, passing them up to York as she dangled and clung around Rauth's body to shove their supplies into the bag. 'I'm afraid there's not much to see here right now, we had a bit of an uproar recently.' He looked out the window of the store, The Fish man's park of mumbles and rumours stacked tall with workers and towers. 'I heard, one less problem to deal with though, eh?' The Shop keeper nodded in response, giving a light wave to Rauth as he left, a smile and a larger wave to York who dangled upside down on his back flailing her arms around. 'Whats gotten into you today, you're not usually this childish.' He grumbled to himself rather than York, walking past the woman who he had recently bumped into and presented her new supplies. 'I've given you another on the house, you seemed a little lacking even if its just yourself.' He seemed to almost struggle giving the girl the additional supplies, something he could potentially have for himself being the scavenger that he was, but none the less handed them over before making his way to the park. He had to see more than just a simple shop window view of this place. A lot of history was in this little town, not to mention the blue as a whole... Figured he may as well enjoy it while he was in the areas.

'Wait! I'm not childish!'
'Haha, now who's slow.'
'Gunna punch you, you damn bucket of bolts.'
'Alright-alright, I'm sorry.'
'Thats better...'

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Sorry for the slow response. Hope it was okay that I made myself the culprit there, thought it was what you intended it to be but, if it wasn't I thought it a was good opportunity. Feel free to tag along to the park if you don't have much muse, ask random questions and what not, I got you covered~

[SHADE SMASH]

(Yay thank you! Its just that when I first rp a character, I have no muse for them. Once I overcome the first few posts and get a hang on her character, I get better with that muse. Also, sorry for my late response!!! Was simply tired yesterday and was working on something and the day before... idk but TO THE POST D<!!!!)

B. ignored the people, too immersed in her current activity to care much for what they did. She did care, though, on the safety of all her newly purchased merchandise! It may have appeared to be much of nothing, a few items here and there for traveling and such, but she planned to go into the grandline with this, by herself! It was not going to be easy, but she was sick and tired of waiting for someone to come along with a suitable ship! Not only that, but the aggravation she was getting through these outrageous prices set by the citizens! Who did they think she was, rich?! She needed a lot so she couldnt even humor them by paying those prices!

She continued gathering everything together, placing them in a pile around herself to the point that you couldn't even see her legs! When she noticed that the man, who she had been completely tuning out, was offering her some bags. He looked awefully strange, especially with that girl on his back. He almost seemed like he came from...the grand line. Although she has never quite seen someone from the grand line, she has made the assumption that people from the grand line wore themed clothing that her drastically out of the normal for blue wear, and that was most certainly not normal.

Taking the bags wearily, she stared at the man, and stopped tuning him out so she may listen to what he says and further figure whether this man was well off to consider helping her adventure to the grand line. He might have a ship that makes it easier to get in! It seems to make sense, why else would a Grand Liner come into the blues if they were not certain about the entrance back home! Plus, all she needed was a ride, they could seperate after that if they wished.

"-on't worry Miss! We'll get you another one now, just wait here.'

Confusion settled onto her face before she could help herself as she glanced around and her eyes settled on a catstrophe. All the food supplies she had purchased were there piled in a mess! It was downright messy! She was so distracted by the new man that she didn't reach for it and now she was going to have to go back there and beat him into giving her the correct price, again. Grumbling annoyed when she remembered what the man had said seconds ago and felt like giving herself a face palm for forgetting such a great thing! Gathering her items together, she stood up and walked to the door deciding to listen in on the purchase, having a feeling that these two wanderers were oblivious to the prices that they were paying were far more than the actual cost.

After some dialogue and a wave good bye, the man was back out on the streets proferring the new bag to her.

'I've given you another on the house, you seemed a little lacking even if its just yourself.'

With a small smile as the gears in her mind turned with thought, she accepted the new bag and added it to her growing collection, ignoring the small struggle she had to put up with to free the bag from his hand. Glancing inside, assuring herself everything was there, she looked up only to find that he was walking away.

"HEY WAIT UP!!!" She yelled, her first words to the man after all that happened. She ran to him, her tennis shoes making that an easy endeavor. Only when she was close did she slow down. "Thank you so much for that! I appreciate that greatly!" SHe said, smiling at him before looking up at the girl with a smile. "However, I do hope you realize you paid about 3 times as much as I did." She said, hoping the information she was providing them would easily place her on their good side.

"Actually, if you look closely, most everyhing here is 3 times its actual price. As long as I am here with you guys that won't happen again! By the way, my name is B-" She paused, tilting her head in consideration at them. The girl looked somewhat childish and she wasn't going to be on there good side if she went into a fit after a mistaken name then she would have to stick with what she originally planned by herself. "Uh...just B! Thats my name don't wear it out!" She said with a smile, proffering a hand to the man.

[Izananana!]

Emi was no doctor so the idea that she had a fever didn't ever cross her mind. She wasn't even usually sick as a child so she had never seen what to do about fevers and the idea of sweating it out. It was obvious now though that she was way too hot and had been covered in coats or something to serve this purpose. She wasn't a very well informed girl unless it came to pirate and swordmanship things. Those were her areas of expertise or just the things she knew the most things about.

She had merely just blinked her eyes in reaction to being told to sit still because of her still being sick. She didn't necessarily consider it being sick but more just being injured. Who was she to question the person tending to her wound though so she didn't voice this out loud. Once again she was no doctor so she wasn't aware that she had a fever. She just knew she was so freaking hot and the coats on her were probably the cause of it all.

The girl that she had been staring at answered her question after picking something up off the deck and walking back towards her. She had smiled at her lightly saying that she was indeed a doctor and everything after this statement went in one ear then out the other. She was completely distracted by the fact that this girl taking care of her being a doctor and the biggest smile came upon her face at this fact as well. She had just found herself a doctor to ask to join her crew and this in her opinion was the best moment in her life at time. She was pretty darn proud of her at this very moment as well because it hadn't taken her all that long to find a doctor at all.

The thought that the girl might not even join her didn't even cross her mind. That was mainly because it wasn't in her mind frame to think about such negative things like that. That was why those bullies back in her village never got to her because well she ignored the negative thoughts about herself. So she also ignored the negative thoughts about possibly not getting this girl in particular to join her crew. Of course, she would still try to recruit her because well it was hard for her to take no for an answer especially when her dream of being a pirate was on the line.

"You are!? Oh that is so cool!"

The smile remained on Emi's face even when the doctor pushed her back down off of her elbows. She just stayed laying down because one should always listen to what a doctor requests of you as her mother always told her. She always listened to the advice that her mother gave her as a child and even if she wasn't there now she would continue to listen to her. That was who she listened when she was little and she wasn't about to stop doing it now that she wasn't even in her village anymore. She was just really silly and strange like that.

The green haired female listened as the doctor started to talk to speak to her again and referred to her as Goggles Two. She was a little questioning of this name because well as far as she knew she was the first person with goggles. It seemed she was about to introduce herself as something but she changed it up to what she assumed to be her real name. She went on to tell her that she had been stabbed and she simply nodded her head in response. Of course she knew she had been stabbed because she had wrapped the wound after. She raised an eyebrow when she said that she had a fever though because she was pretty confused as to how she had gotten one since she wasn't very well informed in medical things. Wait so she had to lie still to get the fever to go away? That wasn't very fun! There was a wet rag put on her forehead after she said this and then asked for her name.

"Yeah. I know I was stabbed. Those stupid bounty hunters took the guy who was going to be my first mate..." Emi said in response to the comment towards being stabbed. "Oh! I'm Emi! Nice to meet you, Filiya!" She said with a grin.

[flame08]

The girl seemed to have perked up slightly after hearing that Filiya was a doctor. More confident in Filiya's ability to heal her? That was good, in any case it was always helpful when the patient was in a good mood. The spirit of a person she would guess is half of the ability to fight disease, infection, and sickness. If they don't have the willingness to fight they will more easily succumb to it. The doctor could only do so much in the end, they can give confidence and heal the physical wounds of the body. Doing her work with a certain nonchalance she doubled checked the wound, passing over the rest of the green-haired girl's body she made sure she hadn't missed any other wounds. Feeling confident about her work she reached into her satchel and retrieved a small vial. Shaking it around a little she took a whiff of the vial to make sure it was the correct one. Nodding to herself when it smelled right, she attached the vial to a dart needle. Holding the needle up she lit a small match and held the needle tip up to the fire. It needed to be sterilized if she was going to put it into a feverish body. After it had been heated for a short while and Filiya was pretty confident that it was sterilized she blew out the match and quickly without giving the girl any warning stuck it into the girl's wound area.

This concoction was her HS-RG Type 1 formula, she didn't have many of them because the chemicals were harder to find, but it allowed for semi high-speed regeneration / recovery. The girl if she had been stabbed was probably rather active, so being laid down with a fever and over slow regeneration was probably not in her best interest.
"Don't mind the quick pain, it'll subside, I've injected you with a healing agent, it will help to close up the wound and allow you a faster recovery. Just lay there so it can do its work." There were no adverse affects of the formula as she had seen. She could never say before, because there was rarely a need for it. It was one of her most fool-proof concoctions. Which made her think there was a drawback . . .she just didn't know what it was.

Her train of thought was broken as the green-haired girl said "Yeah. I know I was stabbed. Those stupid bounty hunters took the guy who was going to be my first mate...". First Mate? This girl was a pirate captain. Well that was . . . unexpected, the girl didn't seem to be very impressive, if she was even an actual pirate to begin with. Did not seem like the type to be a pirate. She was nothing like the last group of pirates she had met back at Baratie. And even if she was a pirate, how come the bounty hunters only went for her first mate and not for herself. Was not the Captain suppose to be the person whose bounty was the highest on any crew. This 'story' that the girl had made very little sense to Filiya but she decided not to inquire. Associating with pirates was generally not a good thing so she'd be happy to just fix this girl up and have her on her way as soon as possible.

The girl spoke again "Oh! I'm Emi! Nice to meet you, Filiya!". She was grinning now, a bit too much happiness for just having a doctor help her stay alive Filiya thought. She sort of wondered what was going through Emi's mind. "Emi . . . that is a nice name." Filiya smiled gently as she wiped blood off her hands and inspected her own clothes for any blood stains. Happy that she couldn't find any she stood up on her feet looking down at Emi. "Well then Emi, you are going to want to lay their for a little while, allow the concoction to do its work. Just try and rest, i'll keep an eye out for anything . . . unnatural." Walking over to the edge of the ship she nonchalantly looked over the edge. Staring into town she wondered what Lufe and York were up to. Now that her patient was in the green, she had just to wait here, and bide her time until the two came back. If they were just going to sit here, might as well talk about something . . .no?

She hesitated, she didn't exactly want to intrude, but what else was there to do. What else was there to say? How to ask this kind of question . . . hesitating she biding her time waiting to figure out a good way to bring up the subject. "So umm . . . . what happened with these bounty hunters who stabbed you. Did they have something against you or something." She was genuinely curious but she had a hard time showing that. Her voice was more awkward and unsure of her question than it should have been. Social skills was not her strong point.

[Tori Tori Chopper]

'York, if you're going to hang off me can you at least support your own body..'
'But she's following us wailing her voice around, its kinda cute~'
'Its not our problem where she's going, just keep your eyes forward.'

'You make it sound like everyone's after us Lufe, lighten up!' The man didn't reply, as much as he loved being told that his bland caution which is otherwise thrown to the wind bar this one small girl's safety wasn't even needed, considering the previous events which have fallen upon them he at least felt it was required to show through his lazy stare. Such a look of effortless joy was needed sooner than he had imagined, York's head suddenly resting on his shoulder to get a better view of the tailing female who he had previously bumped into quite literally moments ago. 'Lufe.. The lady's talking to you.' He could hear the angry huffs in his ear more than the girl who walked beside him mentioned something about being tricked into a ridiculous price. The scrounger of goods deep in his being should be screaming in annoyance at the news, though in all honesty his pouch of Beri didn't feel any lighter since the transaction, which is all that really mattered to him. 'Oh.. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm around here I guess.' His mind was elsewhere, fixated on the park which lay down the fields as they exited the town area and into the winding forest path, the third generation of the location having a much taller tower tip than he remembered. 'Sorry he's a little serious today.' The bouncing head said with a chirp and giggle, her body vanished as she had concealed it with Lufe's large cloak.

'We don't ever really have a problem with money, this guy has this magical supply which I'm not allowed to see in case I spend it all on stupid things. I mean the last time I took some of the money I found this gian-' Her voice broke into a muffle, her eyes furrowing as the hand was pressed against her mouth. 'Can we not tell people everything, Please?' York nodded, a inaudible sentence which was probably something Lufe didn't want to hear anyway followed, he removed his hand and shoved it back into his pocket leaving the girl to grumble to herself amongst the gently waving cloak. Though this woman was rather suspicious, I mean who would follow someone around who apparently had no sense of grace in what they thought was easy pickings? Its like she wanted to follow them around to tell them where they had gone wrong, and for that reason alone.. Once again his fate with smaller females was getting under his skin, even if his face didn't show it.

'Well thanks anyway for the assistance.. Say thank you Lufe.'
'.. Thank you.'
'And my names York! This is Lufe.'
'Don't take it seriously.'

'.. Fine..' To the random observer Lufe just told York to stop an action which was neither heard of seen, though Lufe knew too well that don't wear it out simply allowed York to say it a billion times while he tried to enjoy the nice walk though the country side of the small island, in which their most recent acquittance's name would have flooded had he not predicted the clinging girls next verbal move. The woman now known as B extended her hand, the nearest one to shake it was his mechanical one, which gripped around the feminine hand half its size and gave it a quick cold shake before concealing itself back inside Lufe's clothing. Why was this walk taking so long? He swore the place was only moments away and his company was making it feel like he was walking on the spot, it was simply too early in the morning for him to be dragging along a bunch of children in his stroll, it was bad enough with just York after all. He feared asking something else would send them both off on another conversation, leaving himself to sink into his large collar and look as he feet forever advancing to assure himself he was actually moving. 'You doing okay Lufe?' A voice of innocence popped up from his side, despite him being fully aware it was masked to be approachable. 'I'm fine, just thinking is all.' His mind was beside him, as always is disrupted him from simply relaxing, hopefully the arrival at the park would otherwise distract him from the large task he had hanging off his back.

'This place is already back in action huh..' It had improved, if anything, arguably and all racism aside the lack of angry fish men made the place a little more approachable, the slight construction which seemed to be ushered forth by the marines made the place a little edgy for pirates who sat around on tables about the white cobbled floors. 'I think we can relax here a bit, not much point in giving this a glance then walking back to the ship so soon.' York made a noise of approval, pointing to a free seating area not far from the wide open gates. Leaving the mechanical man to sigh in relief and slump onto his allocated seat for a rest. This whole thing about mornings, he could never get his head around them enough to stay wide awake until the afternoon at least. York shuffled around inside his cloak, popping out and putting her legs up and her back to rest against one of Lufe's folding arms. 'So what is a small woman like you doing around here alone, oddly enough your the third I've seen travelling without some sort of aid.' the protective instinct questioned this B character as he received a nudge from his own concern. 'She's an independent woman! Unlike me I'm sure she could handle not having a robot around to defend her!' York realised what she had said, sinking into her seat and lower down Lufe's side with a flustered look on her face. 'Goggles will probably wonder where we are if we're gone long, plus there's that now injured Goggles two on my ship..' He placed his hat over his face, gesturing a two with his hands before going into silence amongst the mumbles of others and swashing of the sea. 'So what brings you here then B? I'm sure its not just the haggling potential~' York seem rather pulled to the woman, Lufe chose not to question it.

The girl was an odd one.

[SHADE SMASH]

B. watched the two converse back and forth with a quaint smile gracing her face, even if most of what they said she couldn't hear or understand. In her mind, it seemed as if they had a likeness to eachother that made them feel like home when the other was around. One of those pairs you simply can't separate, or try to unless you want hell to break loose. It was a feeling B. would have to admit that she couldn't even remember possessing herself, even within her own house.

Finally, the cold embrace of metal tore her from whatever thoughts swam through her mind and jumped her back into reality as her eyes quickly looked downward at what was shaking her hand. The gleam of something shining, blinding her with the reflection of the sun, was all she got before it snaked back underneath Lufe's long drabby cloak. B.'s eyes stared lifelessly down, her hand still held out, in shock! She had never had such a feeling grace her hand before. She may be smart but not even she could imagine the possibilities of cyborgs. She has been kinda cut off from the world for a long long time. There she stayed lifeless until she finally got a hold of herself and hurriedly grasped her groceries to shorten the little distance that had come to separate them.

As they walked on, B. couldn't contain the excitement of her questioning eyes as they tried to search for some kind of answer, narrowly missing a few cranky people as they walked through the light crowd of people that accumulated on the street. Instead of finding answers about who, or what, he was, she just felt more pressing questions about the young girl who he shared his company with. A child, by the looks of it, who shouldn't be far from their family. Although that would normally point someone to believe this man has some connection to that, B. automatically assumed there was no family relation between them but then again she could be making an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'...which doesn't quite make much sense in this contact upon further investigation.

Her eyes immediately stopped occupying themselves with oogling the stranger for clues when he finally spoke. (Seriously, what was wrong with her? Observing has always been a strong point and now it was failing her in her time of need! SHE WAS GONNA DIE WITH CURIOSITY!!!!!) She didn't quite understand but since she wasn't in this part of town when they were but she could come to the conclusion that something was distracting the people in this part of town from working. Her guess was sleep which was always a welcome sight, even to her!

'So what is a small woman like you doing around here alone, oddly enough your the third I've seen travelling without some sort of aid.'

B. would have crossed her arms if it wasn't for the nearly unbearable groceries holding her down so she kind of had to settle with a humph. Small woman?!?! Yea, sure, compared to HIM!!! This monstrous hulking body!! But she wasn't really small! And even if she was, she had a nice large personality to make up for it! Before she could have a word escape her mouth, little smart York spoke up leaving B. with quite a few more questions. If this was going to continue, she might be stuck to them like glue for longer than she intended trying to figure out the answers to all these questions bustling around in her head! Instead of going on to say something, she kept quiet in hopes to listen in on a clue or two but none came other than the mention of 'Goggles'....Who would name a crew such a bland sounding name? York then spoke up once more, this time to her in another attempt to make her speak up, which didn't sound so bad right now with the burn on her shoulder beginning to act up with all this weight on her shoulders. The distraction would be quite nice.

"Of course I did!" She replied with a small chuckle. "Ok, well, not completely. I actually didn't expect I would need to haggle. Didn't think that prices would be so high!!! The outside is wierd... But I did come here to get whatever items I would need! I'm going to travel to the grand line!" As she said that last sentance, a certain gleam of determination entered her firey eyes before it left and she looked over at York with a smile. "What about you? I'm sure the both of you didn't simply come into town to pay for my groceries."

[Izananana!]

Emi was practically off in the land of day dreaming as she set to thinking about her dream pirate crew. She didn't have the image complete in her mind as everyone was a silhouette but the spot for the doctor. She hadn't even asked the girl if she would join her crew and she was already dreaming of her saying yes and joining. She had always been told by her grandparents that she had her head in the clouds too much. They had made it a constant to tell her mother that she should be more strict with her less she became like her father.

Too bad for them that that had already happened a long, long time ago. She had always had her father's pirate blood running through her and it was without a doubt that she was going to become one whether they liked it or not. She wanted nothing more than to become like her deceased father whom she had never met in her entire life. Her mother didn't even have pictures of him to show her and she always imagined what he looked like in her mind. She figured from the appearance from her mother that she looked a lot more like her dad than anything because her mother's hair and eyes were nothing like hers.

The green haired girl was so far off in wonderland that she wasn't paying her potential crew member any mind. She was too busy thinking that this girl would automatically join when she actually shook out of her day dream to actually ask her. Nothing seemed to be capable of pulling her out of this day dream as she stared off at the sky in an awelike state. Something did manage to pull her from this state, however, and she was blinking as it freed her from the dreams. Too bad it had hurt and made her want to sit up.

"Owww." Emi said in reaction to being suddenly stuck with a needle in her wound. "Warn someone before sticking them with something..." She said as quietly to herself as she could.

Filiya didn't bother saying something about the pain until after she had already stuck the needle in telling her to not mind it since it would subside shortly. She seemed to be the kind of doctor that did the stabbing the needles first and asked or explained things last. Her bed side manner was lacking for sure but this didn't make Emi dislike her in any way. This probably just made her even cooler in her eyes and again the things that she said to her about what she had just used on her went in one ear and out the ear. Even the bit about telling her to keep laying still so the agent could take its effect on her.

Once the pain subsided, Emi was just off on another adventure in her mind. She was in a way plotting the way to ask this girl to join her crew and travel to the grandline with her. She wouldn't be able to fit in for the first mate role, however, but she would fit in perfectly as just the doctor. Though in truth just about anyone would fit perfectly into her crew as she saw it. The first person she would ask for that role specifically and said yes would be the perfect fit for the crew no matter what.

Emi could probably be described as a no strings attached girl or even someone that is easy to please. She honestly was an easy person to please though because it wasn't all to easy to make her mad. That was a good quality to have in a captain despite however naive they really seemed about things. She was probably super naive in several people's eyes but she never did let this get to her. Just like when she was little and never let the words the bullies would say to her get to her; genuinely carefree.

The green eyed girl finally awoke from her day dream state once again but entirely on her own this time. She had nodded to no one in particular when she was just nodding to her thoughts. She had decided that she would ask this girl who she knew nothing about besides her name and her abilities as a doctor to join her crew. She really was your average naive little captain looking for nothing but friends and adventure. It was just in time to hear the comment that the other girl made about her name.

"Thank you! My mother thought it was a wonderful choice for me!" Emi thanked the other female as she grinned at her. "My mother told me it means blessing or favor! So I guess she thought I was a blessing or something." She continued on happily almost as if she might begin to ramble about it.

The grin on Emi's face seemed to leave quickly after this statement since the doctor decided to mention that she would have to stay there for a bit. She didn't like the idea of having to sit still and let some medicine she assumed she had used on her to work. She wasn't the type of person to be too fond of just sitting and waiting. She told her to just try and rest while she kept her eye out for anything unnatural. Unnatural was her having to sit still why the other girl got to walk around with no problems. Unnatural was not having her katanas on her like she did at this very moment even though she seemed to be having a problem with forgetting them lately.

It took a bit longer before Filiya decided to speak again almost as if she had been thinking about what to say to her. She must have decided that it was better to chat about something as they waited just to keep an awkward silence from forming. If Emi had been more perceptive she would have noticed that she hesitated before actually speaking the question that quite possibly might have been bugging her but alas she was not and didn't. She seemed to be interested in the bounty hunter story she had told her and asked what had happened then continued on with asking if they had something against her. No, they didn't have anything against her but she certainly had something against them now since they stole her first mate.

"They played dirty when obtaining a target. Attacked me and my first mate from behind. I suppose they stabbed me because I was trying to interfere." Emi began to explain to the doctor doing quite a good job of reading the bounty hunter's potential reason for harming her. "I'd never met them in my entire life. They seemed dead set in taking my potential first mate at any costs. They didn't seem to care if they ended up having to kill me to obtain their target. I'm not going to let them get away with it either." She continued on answering her second question with a borderline serious tone in her voice towards the end.

[flame08]

'They played dirty when obtaining a target. Attacked me and my first mate from behind. I suppose they stabbed me because I was trying to interfere. I'd never met them in my entire life. They seemed dead set in taking my potential first mate at any costs. They didn't seem to care if they ended up having to kill me to obtain their target. I'm not going to let them get away with it either.'

Filiya raised her eye to that comment. That wasn't something she figured happened usually, she thought normally the captain tended to be the most wanted person in a crew. Not the first mate, and more to the fact that they just wanted to kill her and not take her in as well. What was this first mate . . . was he or she so important that the captain didn't matter at all. That was kinda crazy, perhaps this captain wasn't as big as she seemed. Not that she had thought her very big to begin with, the green haired girl was not much bigger than herself. And wait, was her crew just her then? If her first mate had been captured and taken away, that should have left more than just her if it was a real pirate crew no? But instead all that was here was her . . . kinda depressing. But she ignored that thought for now, the girl seemed to have it out to get those bounty hunters. And she seemed rather decided on it, even if she couldn't move for the next few hours. Well then it would be a nice rest before anything happened, Filiya dusted herself off and sat down on the edge of the ship, leaning back she closed her eyes for a second. A little rest, maybe a little shuteye sounded good right about now.

But that wasn't to be because . . .

BOOM!!

Came the sound from back in the town, nearby actually not too far from there ship. Filiya immediately stood-up and looked around, she could easily see the smoke billowing up from a building. A fire? But that wouldn't have created such a loud sound when it started, then an explosion must be the answer. But to create such a large puff of smoke, it must've been huge, much larger than anything her own EV darts could make. She wondered why it had exploded, well obviously someone planted a bomb, but why? Or if it wasn't a bomb what was it? Such explosions were not very common in the East Blue, this was to be serious the icon of Peace for the world government. No where else were the pirates quite as weak, no where else were the marines quite as well entrenched as here in East Blue. But perhaps the marines had gotten a little, lazy when it came to East Blue since so little went down there. Looking down at her patient she said quickly "Nothing to worry about, just an explosion a few blocks in, I doubt anything will happen to us. From the sounds of it you aren't very notorious, so I doubt that they'd think us the culprits."

Though that had been what Filiya thought, that was far from the truth. To be exact that was almost exactly what the people of the island and the marines that were stationed here had thought. That the explosion, the culprits of it had been the recently arrived newcomers to the island. They had come a little while before, there had been no such incidents that had ever come before. All the evidence led to them, and just as Filiya and Emi were sitting peacefully on the ship, the marines were being rallied to go capture them and arrest them for the crime of blowing up the shop that was now in flames. Unfortunate for them, but very fortunate to the real planters of the bomb who were now laughing, the bubbles of their laughter reaching the surface.

Yep thats right, the real culprits were fishman. A group of 4 of them had swam over after learning of Arlong's defeat. They were completely enraged about what had happened, Arlong had failed to show the true strength of the fishman they believed. They thought him a disgrace, so secretly they had plotted to take over the island and enslave the citizens who they had felt were part of the reason the fishman race had been disgraced. But because of the fairly large marine presence on the island, they had been hesitant to do anything just yet. What they needed was a diversion, to bring the marine strength away from where it would be needed, and enslave the defenseless people. Then with the people of Conomi as hostages, the marines would be unable to do anything and victory would be theirs. It wasn't a very deep plan, but then they weren't exactly the smartest fishman out there. But now with the coming of a group that seemed pirate-like they had found the perfect distraction. The marines would be dispatched to capture the pirates, all they needed was a reason. ie. the explosion.

But that was not the concern of Filiya and Emi at the moment, to be honest nothing was. But there would be one soon, because there was already a contingent of marines making their way to the ship. And they weren't very far off at all.

[Tori Tori Chopper]

'Maybe it was fate which pulled us to your beautiful self~'
York slid over from her seat and edged up beside their new friend with a sound which could only be described as a purr of sorts.

'I'm sorry, she's an idiot.'
'Bu-! I'm trying to tease! Such a spoil-sport..'

She played little-miss obedient and slumped back down beside her robotic guardian, puffing her cheeks and folding her arms with a peep of annoyance, sadly when looking up to the person the whole display was intended for, York realised his hat had consumed his vision anyway.. Making the whole thing pointless. 'Lufe! Dammit this isn't the time for sleep!' her flailing arms were deflected by a single arm pressed out in defence. 'Quit that, I'm tired.' the onslaught of slaps did not cease, for York knew first hand that this was no excuse the man was always tired. 'Can't we just head back now? I want to see how the girl on out ship is doing, not like this park is interesting bar its peace and quiet anyways.' Her impatience had gotten the better of her, and with a shake of his head he rose from his seat, adjusted his hat and angled his arm as the small girl turned monkey leaped up it and onto his back once more. 'I guess you never really got a straight answer for your question little-miss.' Once he was content with his hat's position, and a small female head popped out from his shoulder with a gasp for air and a silly smile on her face, he motioned for B to follow, save York complaining about their stationary antics any longer.

'I'm Yorks guardian, her parents wanted her at a specific place at a specific time, we were a little ahead of ourselves so we-'

BOOM!

'-Decided to make a stop here before we kept moving, that and the ship kind of decided where we were going to go ne-'
'Lufe! Did you not hear that, see that even?!'
'I'm trying to tell a story, York.'

She sighed, grabbing his head with her hands and angling it towards the sudden emergence of smoke and fire quite close to where they were before. 'D'you think that's the store we visited?' He shrugged, with an explosion like that, if it was then there was nothing anyone could do for the occupants, that is if there was anything left of them. 'We'll make a pass to check it out as we head back to the ship, if that's what you're asking.' The chirp that emitted behind him signalled her approval, Lufe looking down to their new friend to continue his story. 'As I was saying.. Huh, guess that was pretty much it really. She's and annoying little girl I have to help across the ocean, in a nutshell.' It seemed York was too interested in the trail of smoke to hear the insult which had slipped past in the cyborgs comment. They could then see the damage first hand, the out of control flames sanctioned off into one area by the marines as others were helping the small cluster of townsfolk move anything valuable from the fires range. For any consolation on their part it was not the shop they had visited, but a few doors down. 'Well, they seem to have it pretty much covered.' York would have helped, or complain that they were leaving if she was not so entranced by the flames. 'You're welcome to tag along some more Miss Grand line, but I fear that's not where we're heading.. the opposite if my navigational skills are correct.' He tipped his hat, before taking three steps backwards then turning. 'Been a pleasure.'

Now that he was rid of that one, he only had three annoying children to deal with, or so he hoped as he moved away from the danger zone and back towards the docks, only to see a group of marines and an increased presence in comparison to before scouting the area. 'They must be looking for the culprits, here's to hoping it wasn't anything to do with that wounded girl.' He expected some sort of response, an insult or aggression towards his lack of trust from the oblivious small woman hooked onto his back, she was still glaring at the smoke trail. 'Oioi, York, eye's forward.. You're making us look suspicious.' York make silly noises in response, spinning around and resting her chin on his shoulder. 'This is coming from the cloaked guy with a giant, face concealing hat.' A chuckle escaped his lips as they passed the small force of scouting marines, apparently the wrong time to chuckle at something.

'Hey! Is that your ship over there?' He followed the pointing finger, over to his little vessel complete with two innocent girls. 'Yup, ignore the occupants, I seem to have no luck in finding endurable women to travel with.' thought the response was a little creepy when put into different context, it was the blunt truth, though obviously this was not enough of an answer to escape the crime that was about to be placed on their heads. 'So it was you who set off the bomb! you were in the town and everything, not to mention you're the only boat to come in today!' Swords pulled, guns raised, the whole situation had gotten tense over such a small time.. Lufe's serious tone hadn't even woke up yet. 'Sure, whatever..' He got a smack on the ear as York, presumably the smarter of the two this time of the day appeared from his cloak in a more noticeable manner. 'We ain't done nothing! 'Ya hear?! Nothin'!' Apparently that was the smarter response, dealt with in motion as Lufe never stopped to acknowledge the aggressive force.

'Don't you get it?! you're under arrest!'
'Yea! Drop the.. Girl, and any weapons and come quietly!'
'We'll investigate your ship too!'

They formed a line behind him, Lufe not ten paces away from his vessel, though the click of firearms did eventually get his attention. 'Hey Goggles, how's Goggles two.' The marines grunted and mumbled amongst one another after Lufe's refusal to face them head on continued. 'I said you're under arrest dammit!'

TWANG!

A shot intended for a human arm bounced off, hardly a warning shot as if an attempt to wound the person they had already decided was the culprit despite real evidence.. Though he did kinda say it was him a few moments ago. 'York, you mind letting me handle this real quick?' She nodded, slipping off him and turning to face them. 'Not this time, I'll handle this myself.' He ruffled her hair before nudging her towards the boat, turning to face the group with a dagger-like look the marines didn't seem to be expecting.

'So, are we going to do this?'