Post by Tori Tori Chopper on May 9, 2013 14:20:53 GMT -5
[/right]The Grand Line, an icon of glory and reward, or pride and title to pirates and marines alike.. The first half of a legendary sea which spans the centre of this world, entered via the formidable calm belt of sea kings, or the famous peaks and mysterious upwards streams of reverse mountain. The Hard-Hat's, a pirate crew of the East Blue, unfortunately found the mile-stone of this passage arguably more troublesome than others. Combined with the injuries they had sustained from a fierce battle in Loguetown days prior, their eventual set-down on the oceans waters had them down and out before the adventure even began.
A week of rest and recovery was well deserved, and despite their success as a crew, others with intentions beyond the Hard-Hat's care-free desires chose this time to depart while others remained occupied by their injuries. Though despite the exit of their Doctor and Navigator.. A certain sister remained, a goal beyond catching up with her brother pulling the ship and remaining crew members along with it to a location beyond first expectations.
--------------------'So they left, huh..''Mm, I didn't ask why, he left this though.'
'Ah, I forgot all about it, gonna need it too.'[/b][/blockquote]
The wrist accessory was thrown across the room, caught by an unkept digger sitting upright on his bed, encased in bandages and still rubbing his eyes from waking only moments ago to further examine the item. 'If they've got stuff to do, I'm sure we'll meet up again someday.' Clipping the metallic band to his arm, flicking the pose fixed inside it, he slowly stretched one limb after another before pushing himself off his mattress and wobbling to the open door of his quarters with yawns and scratches of various parts of his body. 'A whole week, huh?' The boomerang wielding sibling followed close behind, to the degree of pushing past him childishly, making a noise to confirm the Captains query. 'Yea, you ain't missed much beside the obvious though.' She was right, nothing had even moved since he last saw the deck, the morning sun slowly fighting away the dark sky, the glint of orange settling upon woodwork throughout the Jericho. 'You 'gonna manage? You're a pretty small crew as it is, now with this..' He wobbled his hand from side to side, using his other to pick his nose while he moved to the side of the ship, leaning agaisnt the vessels boarders. 'Eeeh~ We'll head to the next island, might take a bit more effort without the extra hands, but I'll figure something out.' Eimi's knowledge of how he solved things was avid, chuckling at the thought of Torin trying to solve something.
'Yeea.. About the island? Might be easier than you think.' Torin had slumped over a pile of disorganised valuables, thrown into a heap to later sort when they weren't falling from a billion feet in the air. Swimming about it at first, to then only emerge head-first, a familiar helmet now upon it followed by a sight of relief and a raised brow. 'Easy-er? I thought this place had lots of weird stuff to look out for..' He rummaged amongst his own clothing this time, pulling a small book from one of his many pockets to reassure his assumption of dangerous waters beyond common sight. 'Well, the first stretch to the routes isn't as bad as people think, all it takes is someone who knows what they're doing.. Maybe some devil fruit powers to push it without the whole crew.. And you're outside the Nightmare route and a mile off one of its islands before you know it..' She spoke in some awkward confidence, Torin's head jerking further and further back with every word she spoke until he was near unnaturally suspending himself at an angle with one foot on the ground.. Quickly scurrying nose to nose with her, eyes wide and and a rather comedic expression of fear overlapped in shadow took over his face.
'What have you done..'
'M-Me?! I didn't eve-'
'You do all the things..'[/b]
'What does that even mean?!' Torin didn't have time to answer that question, he was pulling papers and running from one side of the ship to another in attempts to discover exactly where his questionably adventurous sister had moved his ship to. Which was easy enough considering the island in question lay within the horizon like a signal in the distance. 'They said you guys never really decided where you were going, so seeing as I had some business to handle here.. I mean, you think they just wandered off into open ocean?' Torin was about to blitz on her decision, but the logic behind it seemed to add up, at least in regards to Darius and Robins departure. 'Are you at least going to tell me why you want to be here?' Her gradual attempt to ponder over the subject had intangible noises pour from Torin's mouth in response, Eimi strongly nodding in response instead, apparently what the Captain was looking for.
'It was just some rumour spreading around while I was in the east, I went there to get some information and ran into you! Something about a Pirate King wannabe, the new pirate age.. It happens around here every other full moon I swear, but this one..' She delved into a bag around her waist, pulling out a chain of sorts riddled with different carved symbols and trinkets, walking over to the scouting Hard-Hat, passing him the object while taking the constantly falling helmet from his head. 'This one looks like this one see, it may not make much sense to you now, but this ones bad news.. So if this so called Gold Junior is in league with this guy at all? Its gonna be something worth looking into.' She pulled a make-shift seat to her with her foot, effortlessly crumpling upon it while she worked to fix the mess that was her brothers helmet. 'How do I not know any of this..' It was a surprise, Torin knew everything! 'You've got a long way to go, smart-ass.' He would've retorted if a repaired helmet wasn't shoved onto his head, and his face pulled to one side while his facial injuries were examined. 'He really did a number on you, didn't he..' Hard to admit, the self-shovel damage from the unknown marine prior hacked into him deep enough to deserved a mummified appearance over his nose, something which didn't so much phase the Captain in strength, but the fear of more of that guy being on the road ahead.
'I'll manage.. Besides, the ships main priority right now, I'm surprised you even got it here without it splitting in two.' He patted the wooden surface, this thing had been through hell, it deserved a lot more than a simple fix-up, just a matter of finding someone willing to do it. 'Weell~ There is one bonus to being here when it comes to the Jericho.' Eimi had wandered off, and Torin was too lazy to look and acknowledge the random direction-less voice, simply grunting in response while he pulled away at the mounds of items in attempts to reorganise at least himself. 'This place is all about construction and building right now, the trees they have around here are pretty high-end.' This time he turned, nodding with a subtle smile on his face as he moved to set the ship up for the small sail to shore. 'You didn't even know that before you got here, did you.'
'Nope!~'
'Awesome.'
[/size][/blockquote]'Awesome.'