Maybe I'll Find A Crew Here

[Tay]

The ship rocked back and forth on the East Blue open seas. A blonde haired man of about 18 years sat on the deck. His eyes were closed, and legs crossed, as he meditated and chewed on a piece of twine, with two cases of sharpened katanas resting in front of him. Raisamu Hawkins was his name, and the way of the samurai was his game. His senses told him that the ship was approaching an island. Well, that wasn't fast. Only took 1 day to get here. Raisamu was a vivid thinker, as he did little speaking. The only thing that usually provoked him to speak was ignorance, as it would need to be corrected in some way.

The samurai opened his eyes, and moved his long blonde hair away from his face. He got up lazily and mumbled to himself very quietly "What a drag this is going to be." But I need to search for a crew...in order to get back to Wano. He slipped on his overcoat, so that it draped over his shoulders and fluttered with the breeze from the seas. Next, he grabbed his two cases of swords, six in each, and proceeded to strap them across his back, using a roll of "CAUTION" navy tape. Raisamu adjusted the twine in his mouth, and with that, he looked up to see what the ship was approaching.

An island loomed in the distance. Of course, Raisamu didn't know what island, he knew nothing about East Blue. As a matter of fact, he knew nothing of the blues at all. He wasn't used to the quiet and peaceful noises of these seas, as he had grown up in the New World, more specifically, Wano Country, where the sound of swords clashing could be heard almost every minute. That was the reason that Raisamu's father had moved the family to the blues. "The Living Weapon" was ready to settle down, but the New World was no place to raise a family. In the 7 month journey from the New World to the Blues, what Raisamu now calls to himself the "Journey To The Blues", the blonde swordsman's father had been fatally wounded, ending his life. He left Raisamu to be in charge of the family, but not before making sure he was set to defend and take care of them. During the journey, Raisamu was able to sharpen not only his swords, but his skill in the art of the samurai, all thanks to the help of his father.

The island loomed ahead, and the keen-eyed warrior stared at it, until the ship finally touched the sand. He lowered the anchor and hopped off the ship. As he landed and began to get closer to the woods, he could feel something dangerous in the air, almost sickly. It was almost as if his "CAUTION" tape was tightening around him, making sure he got the message that this island was dangerous, and he should turn back now. But no, this is the first step into gaining myself a crew. I can't wuss out now. I'm a samurai after all, what could be so dangerous as to scare me away?

And with that, Raisamu plunged into the forestry, leaving his ship and the sands of the shore behind.

[tec4n0m4ncer]

Mark had arrived a few moments before the samurai, having been booted off the ship he stowed away on. As he stood up and brushed the sand off of his clothes, the ship behind him took off without him with the parting message of "Maybe next time you'll think twice before stowing away on OUR ships!" He looked back at them and stuck his tongue out at them "Stupid, disgusting pirates, they never even take a bath!" He thought.

When he approached the forest he instantly took a step back, getting an innate sickly feeling he always get when he's around germs. "Ugh, that doesn't look so sanitary, not at all." He said aloud. He quickly ripped a scrap of fabric off of his pant leg and wrapped it around his nose and mouth like a bandanna. "It's not much, but it'll have to do I suppose," he thought, "now let's see whats in this forest beside dirt and disease."

Mark wandered into the forest, thought he only manage to cover a few feet before being caught in a trap and then lifted up into a tree. Mark screamed bloody murder, not at the fact that he had just been capture by who knows, but because of the fact that he was now up close and personal with the flora of the island, and god knows what sort of germs covered those trees!

Mark would be stuck there for a few hours before the samurai stepped on shore. By that time most of Mark's blood has rushed to his head and his face was a sickly green from having to deal with unknown germs for this long. The moment he heard the rustling of someone or something entering the forest, he immediately gathered all of his strength to thrash around and scream "Help!! I'm stuck! Someone please help me, I'm trapped! Captured child over here!" He felt extremely dizzy from being upside down this long, but he had to do anything he could to try and get attention so someone could help him.

Soon everything felt fuzzy. Then everything went black...almost.

[Menma]

The wolf sat in silence as his small boat was being knocked around by the waves like they held a grudge. His eyes quickly opened as a flock of birds flew ahead. Ven stood up and from what he could see an island was due north, filled with nothing he could see but forest. He moved his grey pair of goggles from his face to his upper forehead before grabbing his overcoat near him, putting it on in case of any human life on the island. He clenched onto his right paw that still held the metal coating from Sycamore, before he got an odd shiver up his spine.

As he closer and closer to the island it felt more and more dangerous and filled with germs. Ven grunted somewhat angrily and reached for his medical bag grabbing a doctor mask to place over his mouth.

He was not quite sure what the east blue was like as he came from the cold south blue island, Viktas so he couldn't exactly tell what disease was in his way. He jumped of from his boat after placing down the anchor, staring at the forest awhile before moving. These germs was unknown to the young wolf which made him feel a little uneasy. "This forest disgusts me." Ven said lowly before entering the forest.

After a few steps he heard a manly scream not that far ahead. Ven then took a better look around. From what he could see there were various traps around, trying to fool idiot people to there early grave. Ven wouldn't easily be tricked and swiftly avoided some traps to get closer to the scream he heard.

[Tay]

<sub>Raisamu walked through the forest, hands in his pockets. So far, there had been no sign of life, let alone a village, until he heard a scream from somewhere deeper in the forest.

"Help!! I'm stuck! Someone please help me, I'm trapped! Captured child over here!"

A child. That prompted Raisamu to immediately head toward the screaming with all the speed he could muster. If a situation negatively concerns a child, Raisamu will be the first to step in and handle the matter. This trait was developed from the love he had for his little twin sisters. Raisamu not only wants to protect children, but he likes them as well, to the point where he may carry around a few pieces of wrapped candy in his pocket to share with them.

Raisamu reached the source of the screaming within 10 seconds. He looked up to see a kid stuck in a net that was hanging from a tree branch. The kid's face was turning a sickly green, making it hard to imagine how long he had been up there. The blood had probably rushed to his head by now, and maybe he was dead. The samurai grabbed a sword from the cases on his back, and prepared to jump into the air, but before he could, a group of males stepped out of the bushes. "Hey, we caught something!"

The group of men all wore torn clothing, ranging from jeans to simple shorts, and they all looked about the same age, probably 20. They were definitely young, and were doing some form of hunting, though none of them carried any weapons. "What is this..this isn't an animal. And it looks like there are more pirates here for the Gold Indicator Plant!"

"So, I'm guessing this kid isn't what you were trying to catch. In that case.." Raisamu jumped into the air, and with a lightning quick swing of his sword, sliced the net, prompting the kid to fall to the ground. Raisamu kneeled next to the child, and checked his pulse. He was definitely still alive, but the shade of his skin wasn't good. "He needs help."

And why should we help you pirates? Go find your own doctor and get off our island.</sub>

[tec4n0m4ncer]

Mark's consciousness at the time happened to be moments from slipping the way, if not for Raisamu, he would have blacked out completely. However, Mark is a tenacious type of kid. A few moments after he checked Mark's pulse, he weakly sat up to find himself facing a group of young adults in dirt covered, grimy and ripped clothing. Mark simply stared at everyone for a moment, processing what was going on.

After Mark had realized what was going on, he panicked and hid behind the tall blonde man who had just cut him out of the trap. Surely if the man was not going to let him just dangle upside down from a tree, then the man would protect him from what appeared to be the dirty native islanders. He tightened the piece of cloth wrapped around his face and grabbed his staff and started waving it at them from behind the Samurai. "Hey! It's not like I had a choice to be on this filthy island! And I'm no dirty pirate either! I'm a clean one, not one of those greasy, scurvy riddled island looters!" He shouted.

Mark gave the group a grave look to the group, then put his staff away and hid back behind Raisamu. As the panic of being in immediate danger wore off, more outlandish panics began to pick up. His angry and tough attitude quickly melted into a more frearful and shy one "P-p-please don't hurt me! I didn't mean to intrude on your island but I'm was thrown off the ship I was sailing on! Please d-don't make me your slave or anything!" He begged

[Menma]

Ven took a higher position, going from tree to tree toward the scream until he started picking up more scents then before. In a few seconds the scent got stronger and he quickly stopped as he started to hear voices and began to move in slowly.

A group of ragtag villagers wearing dirty clothing all seemed to be from a nearby village. Along with them was a blonde man holding a sword, and a child hanging upside down in a net. The child must have been hanging there for sometime, his face was turning a greenish color, he could die quite soon if someone doesn't save him. Right as he said that the man with the sword cut him down.

"Hmm, this could be interesting, i'll stay for the unraveling of this." Ven sat in that tree for sometime listening in on their conversations until for some reason he got the urge to want to help them. Not really much for the samurai, but he more for the kid. But since the situation isn't very dangerous at the moment, he decided to keep watching, while not getting involved just yet. "That man seems quite noble, kinda reminds me of Sycamore, asking them for help even as an outsider, just like him...." Ven blanked out for a few seconds pondering on those thoughts before snapping back into reality.

[Tay]

"Hmph, so you refuse to help a child in need. Whatever." Raisamu sheathed his sword back among the others and grabbed the scared-looking kid, putting him on his left shoulder. His face was still a sickly green, but other than that he seemed fine. Raisamu was ready to leave now, since that's what the villagers had requested. This would probably be his life from now on, as a pirate. Getting turned away all the time, as people would be afraid of him. There wouldn't be any pirate recruits here anyways, since this island didn't seem to welcome them...except..

"Hey kid, you said you weren't a dirty pirate, but a clean one. Which means, you are a pirate, right?" Raisamu asked as he walked, the kid dangling over his shoulder. "What's your na-?"

As Raisamu burst out out of the forestry, and back onto the sands of the shore, he noticed another ship had anchored beside his. Three figures were huddled on the sand, not far away, as if they were developing a plan of some sort. Raisamu moved forward slowly, hoping the kid on his back kept quite, even though he had just asked him a question. As he got closer, their words became more clearer.

"Remember guys, we're here looking for the Gold Indicator weed. We find them, and we're rich! Kill all those who stand in your way! Now, lets move before that other pirate ship steals all the gold!" The guy who appeared to be the Captain, finished. Raisamu backed off and back into the forest before he was seen. This could get ugly.

[tec4n0m4ncer]

Mark looked at Raisamu as he slowly stepped back into the forest "Who are those guys?" He asked silently, afraid of attracting the pirates attention, hearing the their plan to steal whatever this island had. "They sound kinda like pirates, except they're bad pirates! And we can't just let them hurt everyone!" He hoped that the samurai would take care of the group. We didn't like the idea of pirates massacring whatever inhabitants this island had, even if they were kind of rude. He was too much of a coward to approach the group, plus he wasn't the one who could handle a sword, and those pirates look dangerous.

He switched his attention to the samurai's question for a moment to take his mind off of the pirates "Um, my name is Markus, by the way, and I am a pirate. I'm not one of those dirty stealing and pillaging pirates though, I'm going to be a clean pirate! I'm going to be nice to others and help out people I meet and be a good guy!" He claimed. "What's you're name? You seem to be a nice person; and what are those cases for? You sure seem to carry a lot of stuff."

Despite the current situation they were in, he seemed to be quite talkative. He had tons of questions about the samurai, and he appeared friendly and clean so he didn't really have a problem with Raisamu carrying him. He also had no problem asking him questions.

[Menma]

"So now what will happen?" Ven thought as the guy picked up the kid and placed him on his shoulder and began to walk back to shore. Ven followed them from tree to tree until they reached shore. And as the guy and Ven came upon the shore something was sitting in the way. Right on the shore a ship sailed in with a small group of dirty looking people.

Ven smirked some and stood back up and began to stretch out his arms. "I haven't had a nice fight in some time, I hope the guy won't mind if fight as well."

Ven then realized if those guys were pirates they would most likely try to pillage his ship, which held all of his medical materials and everything else Ven owned. Though Ven had his ship quite far off east, so they wouldn't find it so easily without checking. And if they did, he would have to step in earlier then he thought.

Ven had overheard that there plan was to find something called the gold indicator weed, whatever that mean't, and everyone in there way was to be killed. Ven had no problem fighting when the odds were against him, his speed and strength were more than enough to take down a few strong humans at a time.

The next few words Ven heard came from the kid, which made Ven laugh some. "A clean pirate and help other people huh, kids just don't understand..." Ven shook his head before turning back to the action and waited to see what the guy and kid would do.