Ships! (Delgado Crew)

[delsha]

The day was moving along pretty slowly, a bit unusual for time at sea. The sun was obscured by the clouds an it looked like it was gonna rain again for the second day in a row. Gaius was asleep on his lawn chair on his small sailboat which he now shared with his crew mate Taffy. It had been a few days since they had both left out from Saint Reia after causing a bit of a commotion there.

As if to break the boredom of the day a small raindrop fell onto Gaius' cheek from the sky. He roused in his sleep. Then another fell on his nose and this time he rolled over and fell off the his make shift bed. Gaius had given Taffy the small room that was under the deck of the ship so she could have some privacy. But Gaius was getting kind of tired of falling off his little lawn chair over and over again just because he enjoyed rolling in his sleep. He got himself up off the deck. He sighed heavily. "We need a bigger ship." He said to himself.

Gaius looked up at the sky. From the shine that the sun gave off from behind the clouds he could tell it was late morning. He threw on a shirt and walked around to the end of the boat where a small hatch lay on the floor. He opened it and quietly whispered "Hey Taf. You awake?" he waited for a response. If none came he'd say it a little louder and so on and so on until she answered, she shot him with one of here candy rounds, or did something else. The second one made him chuckle to himself a little when he thought about it.

[SHADE SMASH]

Taffy groggily awoke to the sound of obnoxious sound of her capytain calling her name constantly probably trying to wake her from her deep sleep and the taste of stale taffy in her mouth practically made her want to barf!!! Finally unable to take the torture treatment placed on her taste buds and ear drums she stuffed her hand into her pocket and threw a bunch of candy at her captain trying to get him to quit trying to wake her up!Although he laughed annoyingly it overall worked! Then she shoved her hand back into her pocket retrieving a white colored taffy and popping the mystery flavor into her mouth.

''Grape cherry,'' she commented as the taste of sugar immediately over took her taste buds and caused her to brighten at once. Before a moments notice, she had already jumped out of bed and climbed onto the upper deck. ''Morning Captain!'' she hollared giving him a mock salute and she moved around like a hyper five year old. Totally unlike how she was only moments before!

''Eh?'' she thought aloud as she feltsomething on her nose. Crossing her eyes trying to figure out the culprit she only accomplished in hurting her eyes and quickly rubbed them for dear life as if they were burning, which they were now with her contant rubbing. 'Rain!' she thought realising at last she had come out when it was beginning to drizzle.

''Why didnt you tell me it was raining?!?!'' she accused, pointing at him as if he was the true culprit on this ship before putting her two hands over her head trying to block out the rain but suddenly she spotted something on the horizon! ''Hey a ship!''

[Kurosaki]

How long had it been? Hayate lazily opened his eyes and glanced out across the sea, blinking as the suns rays shone brilliantly from above and temporarily blinded him. The row boat rocked from side to side, rocked like a baby in a cradle by the light breeze and constant waves. The small of salt greeted Hayate and made him wonder when the last time he had drunk anything had been. His small rations had run out fairly quickly after he had ditched the Marine ship a while back. With only a canister of water, that too had not lasted long. The Actor had smartly managed to catch some rain water after and that was why he was still alive.

Lucky him. Alive in the middle of nowhere's-ville. Hooray!

Well, at least he had kept himself entertained coming up with a new personality, a new character to use when he finally ran into someone, preferrably one that would work well with his plan. Hayate wanted to get to a popular island. A place where he could perform for tons of people. Hopefully his plan would get him where he wanted to go.

Just when he was starting to feel optimistic, however, it began to rain again. "Oh, that's wonderful," he said sarcastically, rolling his eyes. That was when he spotted the sailboat though close to the horizon. "Show time?" With a smirk, he reached to the side and pulled up a bottle. It was a huge bottle of beer. With a grin, Hayate relaxed his posture and layed back down, letting the boat take its course as well as the events that would unravel.

(Hayate's going to act like a friendly drunk. =P)

[lukas]

A raft had been made using a collection of trees, about 4 of the that were cut up into decent sized logs. The logs were cut in half and tied together in a four layer pile and tied up using rope boughten from a store not to far from his last port. Unfortunitly, he didn't have enough beri to buy himself a ticket to the next island, so a simple length of rope finished the raft.

So now he moved through the water on the raft quickly, his eye bored and annoyed as he sped into the rainy sky. The large fish that was his method of motion sank down a bit before he pulled back up on the rope and pulling the fish up. He wasn't sure how much longer he could make the half loaf of bread last, but it'd be enough for him to find someone else he hoped.

Of course, the story about how this pirate had caught this large fish wasn't to interesting, but it caused about half of his raft to be destroyed. After that, a good portion of rope had found its way into the mouth of the fish and out of both of its gills, allowing the man to grab the rope and control the fish. As things were, the fish was tiring out now and soon he'd have to let the beast go which would make him slow down and stop.

Lukas let out a sigh and regretted his actions on not trying to buy an already made boat. Yet as the fish slowed down Lukas allowed his course to continue, seeing two faint figures in the distance.

[delsha]

"It looks like there's a small sail boat over to the east." Gaius said putting down his binoculars. He popped one of the pieces of candy Taffy had thrown at him earlier. It tasted like raspberry. He turned around and put his hand out to feel the the rain that was still falling. It was starting to lighten up. But Gaius guessed form the clouds coming in from the west he figured it was gonna get worse soon. Gaius turned and looked back out the binoculars again he saw the row boat that was coming closer. He scanned the horizon to see if there was a bigger ship that they could steal. Nothing.

He put down the binoculars again and decided that they might as well see who was in that row boat.

"Hey Taf? You wanna go see who is in that row boat over there?"

Gaius would wait for an answer and head over to the ships wheel to steer it over to the row boat but being his oblivious self he would accidentally steer it toward the small raft, also in the east, that he had oblivious missed. And even if Taffy said she didn't he'd probably miss that and do it anyway.

[SHADE SMASH]

Taffy looked in each direction copying what Gaius was doing wondering if she could be able to spot who was on the boats with her sharp sniper like sight. Squinting against the rain and basically leaning half way over the railing, she was able to depict that the person in the row boat was a guy. She started to jump up and down wondering if he was going to be their new crew member , on the seas in search of Captain Gaius and his trusty first mate Taffy!

Running to the other side of the boat, which was only about 8 feet, she leaned over the railway squinting again hoping she can get a better outline of the person on board since the rain began to light up. After a few minutes squinting, the boat finally got close enough for her to realise that it was another guy.

"Two new crew mates!" she shouted at her captain putting her hands on her hips happilly wondering if they both heard of their (not so) wild tale on the last island fighting bad guys and running from bars! A truly great tale to be told on the seas, and one that had to be the reason for these new crewmates appearing!

"Its a new crew mate, it has to be!" she reasoned to him in reply but he didn't seem to be listening. She pouted for a few moments but before too long she was jumping out of eagerness wanting to meet her new crew mates as she daydreamed inventing wild things that they could be for the crew!

[Kurosaki]

Popping open the top of the beer bottle, Hayate actually took a swig. It wasn't like he hadn't drunk before but the liquid was stronger than he was used to. He coughed and sputtered for a moment then regained his composure again. A clueless drunk would be someone people would want to get rid of quickly. If he acted as annoying as possible and rambled about a certain island, more likely than not they would dump his butt there. Hayate smirked and praised his luck for having found a secret stash of some Marine that had wanted to keep his beer a secret from the others on the ship.

"OI, Y-YOU GUYS OVER THAR!" Hayate called obnoxiously, purposefully making his words slur as he stood up and began to wave to the sailboat hoping that they had taken notice. It seemed that they had begun to sail in his direction but he couldn't be absoluetly sure. He pretended to sway slightly and the boat nearly tipped over, bringing him along with it. By some miracle it didn't, however.

"OI!" he called again for good measure, a silly grin on his face before he took another swig. This time he didn't seem to gag on it. Actually, he drank it like he had been living off the stuff for years.

[lukas]

The figures could be seen as two boats, and on the boat he could see two different people was well as one person on the row boat. Lukas was able to see them from how far he was, and he found it good that he may actually find someone with some fresh water for him. With a gentle kick of the fish that drew his raft he continued moving.

He could hear there voices now as they yelled out at each other and he had thought that he had found his destination, hoping that those who he landed with would not strike at him or at each other through hidden weapons. If that would be the case, he'd make sure that they would regret their actions. So as things were he continued on his path hoping that things wouldn't turn sour for him.

Dangers were more then threatening about on the sea and he knew that traveling in a group was a lot better then traveling alone. And well, the group seemed to have a a sail boat, better then his pointless raft. As it was, he was slowly running out of material that kept the raft in check.

[delsha]

The Rain started to let up again and the sun cam out for a while. Gaius was a little surprised when the seamen who seemed pretty drunk started calling over to them. He smiled and waved back at the guy. After they picked him up they would go over to the other guy. Gaius of course didn't realize that he was heading for the traveler on the raft instead of the drunk person in the row boat. So as most oblivious people do Gaius didn't notice that he was about to hit the raft guys raft until it was almost too late. Almost being the key word in that sentence. Gaius was able to steer the ship out of the way without hitting the thing. But he feared that the wave his sharp turn had caused might have destroyed the guys raft or at least knocked him into the ocean. He looked at Taffy with the usual apologetic look he gave someone when he felt he did something wrong.

"Hey Taf." he said "I think I might have knocked that guy into the ocean. So ya might wanna help him out. I'll get a towel."

Gaius move to go get a towel below the deck. Before he went under he looked to see where the drunk guy had gone. Gaius saw that he was just a few hundred feet away at least making it easier for them to pick him up after they got raft guy of the water. If he was in the water that is Gaius thought to himself as he got the towel. He had never stopped to check he realized. He shrugged. Better safe than sorry right?

[SHADE SMASH]

Taffy kept on going back and forth between the two railings to keep watch on their two new crew mates to make sure they wouldn't get lost or turn around r anything of the sort! They were their new crew mates, well they were depending on if Gaius said so or not, but as far as she saw it they were their new crewmates! Not to mention one of them spoke!!!!!! Although it wasn't surprising a human could speak it was surprising that he spoke out to them, she didn't even catch the slur in his voice she was too happy.

''Oi!'' she hollared back at him leaning over the railing far enough to lift her feet off the ground and gave a mighty wave in hopes he would see her. But she soon realised that they were getting a bit farther away from him and frowned in concern jumping down off the railing to consult the captain.

Frankly, just as she did that, a mighty wave caused the ship to rock forcing her to hold on for dear life to the edge of the ship so she wouldnt fall out but unluckily she saw they had collided with the raft and her mind went into override.

''Man overboard!!'' she cried in her head and jumped off the ship right before Gaius voiced her exact thoughts. But upon jumping in she realised that she had jumped in with her candy. ''No! My candy!!'' she cried throwing candy onto the ship in hopes to save her last supply.

[Kurosaki]

Were these guys idiots? Hayatee watched with slightly widened eyes as the sailboat veered away from his small row boat and potentially collided with a raft. A hand came up to slap his forehead at the spectacle. Well, at least these people wouldn't be hard to fool. He'd get to where he wanted to go easily enough. A sigh escaped his lips as he sat down and began to row over to where the accident had occurred. When he got close enough he called to the only one that still remained on the sail boat.

"Oi! Give 'em both some beer when yah hall 'em up. It'll warm 'em up right quick!" Hayate said with a friendly laugh at the end. He wasted no time just coming aboard the boat once he was next to it. Jumping onto the deck, he then waved and swayed a little, the bottle of alcohol still clutched tightly in his right hand. Well, now all he had to do was wait. It seemed that these people had been interested in him since they had sailed his way. And, from the looks of things, they definitely weren't Marines. He would bet his bottom dollar that they weren't Bounty Hunters either the way they acted.

[lukas]

Lukas couldn't believe that the ship was coming closer and closer to him at the speed it was, and when he realized what was about to happen that he suddenly pulled the large rope out of the mouth of the fish and set it free. Watching the ship ram his little raft, Lukas jumped for a moment before landing on a single piece of wood a little wobbily. Yet he kept his mouth shut instead of yelling at them, taking a moment to get his balance, putting his feet each on a different piece of wood as he watched the rest of them move away from him.

Great. He thought to himself with a sigh before he watched as a girl seemed to eagerly to jump into the water to assist him. Moving to sit down on one of the pieces of wood, Lukas offered a hand to her a moment before she started to yell about something and he pulled his hand back with a hidden blush and confusion. He had no idea what just happened, but she seemed to have candy with her that she was more interested in saving then him. Moving the log toward the ship, Lukas grabbed hold of it and pulled himself up before lowering what was left of the rope to the girl, trying not to make eye contact.

"Grab on... quickly." He said softly, looking over at the drunken man not to far off.

[delsha]

By the time Gaius had gotten up on deck again Taffy was nowhere to be seen. Presumably in the ocean trying to rescue the guy the had almost hit. Gaius walked over to the side of the boat to see if he could find where his overly excited first mate who was most likely talking the guy to death after having saved his life. He laughed a little to himself before he leaned over the edge. After a few seconds Gaius caught some move movement out the corner of his left eye. He figured it was Taffy.

"Hey Taf..." when he saw that it wasn't Taffy he was a little surprised. He was gonna say something but decided against it when he saw that he was trying to help what he assumed was out of the water. He decided to turn his attention to the drunk guy in the rowboat. He walked over to the other side of the ship. The drunk guy was rowing his way over to the ship. Surprisingly good rowing for a drunk guy. Gaius of course didn't notice. If your wondering why then I just have to ask; have you even been reading this. This dude is oblivious to things that would be pretty obvious to you and me. Duh!

When drunk rowboat guy got up close enough to the ship Gaius would let down a piece of rope. And offer to help him up.

[SHADE SMASH]

After saving as much candy as she could, she frowned at her stupidity popping one of the water logged salty taffy into her mouth surprised by its good taste even after making contact with the sea. She smiled more happy than ever, if that is even possible, since she had two great tasting candies satisfying her mouth. She savored it for awhile bobbing up and down in the water hardly using any effort to keep herself afloat. SShe would have done that all day even if it hadn't been for the lucky guy who didn't fall into the water even though he didnt really have a substantial raft.

Taffy looked at him in surprise having orgotten about him in the midst of her candy crisis and candy heaven at the same time. Not only that but she felt a bit embarrassed since she did get in the water to save a guy who didnt need saving, instead he is probably saving her from drifting off never to be seen by her Captain.

Swimming a little distance to the rope, she grabbed it and the guy who wasnt really making eye contact with her pulled her up. Finally onboard she smiled brightly at him.

''Thanks!'' she exclaimed throwing her arms in the air to further express her happiness before she looked down and realised how wet her clothes were. She squeesed the clothing a bit so it wasnt so water logged before looking back at him.

''Ah thats right! If you are gonna be on the Captains crew we have to know your name! So what is it?''

[Kurosaki]

The Captain managed to bring the one girl back up with the use of the rope. Next would be the guy that had a now ruined flimsy raft. Well, at least the guy had somewhere to go now that his other mode of transportation was sorta out of commission. Hayate smiled sort of lopsidedly and took a swig of the beer. Well, by the time he really did drink the entire thing he'd be pretty drunk since the alcohol in it was stronger than what he had gotten used to going to the bars with the other Marines when he had masqueraded as one a while back.

He sat down at the railing of the sail boat, content to just watch as they fished the other stranger out. That was until the hyper-active girl that was still soaking asked their names, referring to them as crew under the Captain. "I don't know what yar talkin' 'bout," Hayate said drunkenly with raised eyebrows. What crew? They hadn't recruited him and they wouldn't. Hayate was looking for someone that could tell when he was acting. These two couldn't even turn their boat right without crashing into something! "But do yah got any beer? If yah do then I'll stick around for a bit!" Hayate laughed good naturedly knowing full well he'd leave at the first chance.