A Sweet Adventure

[madeye]

Well he had a crew and could finally put his doctor abilitys to use. The marines rushed forward. Leo brought his sward forth and it split into three. He jumped over Gaius and shouted "Hiebie Hiebie off" His eyes turned black and his pupils turned white. He thrust his hands forward and a the air began to sparkle. The three marines at the front went flying backward from the cold. There faces had patches of black from frost bite. He was now spinning and slashing. "temp yaiba!" Leo yelled as he lifted his blade into the air. The air began to get colder and colder and steam was pouring off the metal of the blade and he slashed a marine in the neck. There was no blood, it was frozen where he cut and black from the cold. "Finlay some fun!" he yelled. As a marine stepped forward he steeped on his foot and sent him to the ground. He was about to cut down when he fell asleep and landed to the ground next to the startled marine who stared in shock. Leo did this when he was about to have a moment of triumph. People were murdering "Hes dead! He just drooped dead!" No just taking a nap.

(Please don't cut me! Hahaha I really don't care what island we go 2 next. Just somewhere we can have fun!)

[SHADE SMASH]

The purple haired girl seemed to be unable to stop her motor mouth as she continued talking and blabbing about stuff not even pertaining to the subject she first mentioned previously. Most of the onlookers even started holding their breath to see if they could match how long she was apparently holding hers just to keep on talking and they seemed to fail in the blink of an eye.

Now, the debt collectors were pissed especially when she promised them shiny objects that were yellow on her ship and instead when they began demanding for it, she ran off faster than anything they have seen before and trust me they have seen some pretty cheetah fast people. The boss of the little group began feeling pretty damned pissed by the girls ignorance towards their presence and brought out a gun to point at her only to have himself and his men gain the shock of their lives.

In seconds they were on the ground with a thud and Taffy still didnt stop to take in a breath from her obsessive talking, people in the crowd beginning to turn a deep shade of purple, that is until the 6 most important words in her life appeared!

"Mind if I join your crew?"

Taffy was overcome with pure joy with the announcement of this guy coming to join their crew as the people in the crowd with purple heads about to burst at last felt like they could breath again. "YAY A NEW CREW MEMBER!" Taffy shouted once again ignoring the imminent danger that was upon them in her bliss of happiness. A smile firmly planted on her features almost like she couldn't get rid of it no matter what. And it was getting better, then worse. "Candy! YAY!!!!!.......Wait! I have to get the furiiku(Freak)?!"

Her time of happiness was diminished in seconds as she crossed her arms and put on a pout already tasting the taffy begin to deprive her of the much needed sweetness as she stared at Hayate with a glare. Then again hher hope came back the moment Gaius decided to change his mind but that didn't change the aching feeling that began to throb at the back of her mind even as she stared at the approaching Marines.

"No problem!" She reported raising her twin guns and began to shoot at the marines.

(I think we should do something like they do in the anime and go discover one of our crew members past! Like what they did for Nami or something. Only thing is who will we do?)

[Kurosaki]

"I leave for two seconds and you guys get yourselves in this large of a mess?" questioned Hayate with a mumble as though he were some cause of things to be normal and they were the ones that constantly messed that up. Well, in his mind it was very true. After all, they had changed the way he had to view the world. Right now he couldn't lie to them about who he was anymore since they knew he was an actor named Hayate. Well, not neccessarily. On the way there Hayate had already created some additions to his "character" turning his real identity into someone else.

Feeling more comfortable with his prepared lies stored in his head, Hayate prepared himself for the fight with the debt collectors by drawing out his sabre. However, just when he was ready all of the men fell to another person. Standing back he listened as Gaius accepted that person into the crew readily and then ordered Taffy to go locate Hayate. Apparently none of them had seen him standing there.

"Who's a freak?" Hayate questioned with a secretive grin as he came up behind them all, mostly to freak Taffy out if she felt that she had been caught red handed saying something bad about him. He knew that she didn't like him but if she felt guilty for it when he caught her he was sure she would change her mind eventually. Now that Hayate found himself wanting to make sure Gaius didn't get himself killed, he realized that he was going to end up with these people for a while.

Taffy just stared at him looking angry. Hayate shrugged his shoulders and then smiled a little as he started to act. His character that he had decided on was quiet but kind and useful. Digging into his pocket he then threw the contents over to Taffy even as she began to shoot at the Marines that were gathering.

"Here, catch! I got that for you. Hope it helps, Taf," Hayate responded with a slight smirk. The bag that he had thrown toward her was full of a wild assortment of candy. It was sure to please her for a while. Not seeing whether or not she caught the bag despite firing at Marines with two guns, Hayate's focus diverted from Shade and went onto the Marines.

As one rushed forward Hayate jabbed him with the point directly in his upper body using the move defensio. Since the point was sharp it pierced the flesh and caused the Marine to howl from the pain. With a finishing move Hayate lunged forward hard and caused it to sink down deep into the main's chest. It pierced his lung and caused the man to fall to the ground. Since Hayate only killed people he thought deserved it, he left that man and preceeded to knock five other Marines to the ground. Though bodily injured, each would live to see their families again but would not be getting up anytime soon.

[salva]

Susano had to admit, he was a little surprised by how easily Gaius had accepted him into the crew. This redheaded guy was pretty interesting. Then he turned his attention to the marines that where charging at them. He was about to draw his blade when Gaius rushed forward then some white haired guy jumped over them and started attacking. Then the purple haired girl, whose name he had overheard was Taffy pulled out two pistols and started shooting. Then some blonde guy joined in. Susano was caught off guard at first but then he realized that they where his new crewmates. Susano shock his head and smiled. He was really gonna enjoy being a pirate.

Susano drew his blade and joined the fray. First he used it to block an axe blow from a ensign. He ducked out of the way of the next blow then slashed his opponent across stomach. He ran toward the rest of the marines and preceded to kick the asses of the next ten guys who came up against him. After a little bit he realised that himself and his crewmates had taken out at least half of the marines that had charged them.

(sorry for the short post, I'm having a little bit of writers block.)

[delsha]

After about twelve minutes the pirates had beaten all the marines that had attacked them. Gaius was a little out of breath. He bent forward and rested his hands on his knees as he tried to catch it. When he had done that he turned around to see his nakama. They where a little worn but he figured they where fine. Gaius himself had a few cuts and bruises but he figured he too would been fine.

Gaius started to think. If there where marines on this island then that meant that they had to leave right away, like at this exact moment in time. He decided a few seconds later that this was the best coarse of action.

"Okay guys!" he said facing every one " I know some of us just met but we kinda gotta go. Now, like right now. So let's jet. We can worry about other... Um...piraty stuff later." he finished. He didn't really wait for the others to respond before running off, in the exact opposite direction of the ship.

He was running for awhile before he came to the port. He looked around for a second then noticed that the ship was gone.

"Ahhhh!!! The ship is gone!!!!" he shouted. Just then however he caught a glint of metal in his eye. It was a fairly large katana. Gaius ducked then rolled away to the side. He looked up and saw a high ranking marine officer before him. He had shoulder length white hair was pretty tall, and was in a black suit. He held across his shoulder that large katana. The marine grabed it with both hands then sliced at the air. It was like he sent out a wave of energy. He ducked to avoid the thing. Then the guy was gone.

He noticed the marine above him and jumped out of the way. The attack caused the ground to shartter. Gaius landed. He decided to not speak, this guy would probably just keep going while he was talking.

"Shit." he said "First the ship, now this." he slipped on his new combat gloves and took a fighting stance. This was gonna take a while.

(so yeah I agree with shade but who to do a dramatic past plot about.... I nominate... Whoever wants to do it.)

[SHADE SMASH]

(Sorry for not replying sooner, I was trying to give Leo a chance but since it has been 9 days I HAVE COME TO SAVE THE DAY XD)

Taffy aimed her guns with high precision, shooting at the marines left and right with a wild grin which planted itself firmly on the girl as each person she shot wailed in agony and falling to the floor claiming to have trauma and multiple other ailments, some even fell to the floor completely knocked out! Her sugary ammo after all was nothing to kid around about, able to break and crack through even the toughest of skulls and bones imaginable, where did you think they got their names from?! Not to mention with the gun she created to be especially beneficial in such hardcore fights able to shoot the bullets with speed because of the little contraptio-

Before Taffy was able to recall what exactly made her gun run and operate in child-like happiness, a hard bag hit her square in the back of her head infuriating her immediately as she spun around to get angry at the suspect, Hayate, a theory which was right on the dot. Yet before she through any complaints his way, she picked up the bag prepared to throw it right back at him, only to have the aroma of sweets hit her like a ton of bricks and at once she jumped for joy ignoring the marines behind her as she stuffed her mouth with about 10 candies, her hatred for Hayate dissolved into nothingness replaced by a more likable feeling.

Then, like a rocket, Taffy went back to shooting and aiming at the oncoming Marines who were quickly done off quicker than she had thought possible. Taffy ran around in circles holding to her candy bag like it was her life and that she could not live without it, which in some cases were true, her slight tiredness from the fight not showing through her hyper exterior.

Suddenly, the captain began to run and as the trusty first mate she followed readily, easily catching up to him in no time with her sprinter like legs. "EH!? OUR SHIP IS GONE?!?!" Taffy shouted in surprise staring at the rows of ships ported their, not one of them belonged to the crew and she stood their frozen like a statue pondering over the events before coming to a conclusion. "Fish must have stole it!" She reported completely serious.

Without a second notice though, she jumped out of the way from an assailing attack from a marine who almost hit her since she was standing next to Gaius, but other than that she paid no mind to them more concerned than anything to figure out the reason for the disappearing ship.

(I NOMINATE (NOT) TAFFY! Sorry but I wants to save Taffy for anothers island.)

[Kurosaki]

(I'll pull something out of no where for Hayate! YAY! Oh, god, this is going to be terrible...)

Hayate finally sheethed his saber once the last of the Marines had been taken care of. It had been relatively easy. In fact, he almost wondered who was sending these idiots after them. None of them had shown any leadership abilities in the way that they had rushed them at all. With this many Marines, Hayate knew from past experiences that there had to be a ranking officer. His brown eyes roamed the steets suspiciously.

When Giaus took off toward the ship, leading their newest Nakama, Hayate followed behind. He was going to start playing the role of the loyal pirate crew member after all. Or, at least, that had been his plan. The con wasn't the best, after all, since what he was working with turned out to be mostly true.

When they reached the docks the captain and his sugary companion both seemed shocked to see that the ship had been stolen. Well, it had been stolen by them so it didn't really surprise Hayate. Finder's keepers, right?

"I... I doubt that fish took the ship, Tanny," Hayate said with a smirk. The fact that he had messed up her name meant that even he wasn't convinced he wasn't acting. Yes, the truth was that when he wasn't acting he couldn't remember the truths about the world. So, he was prone to forget names very easily; hence why he called her Tanny instead of Taffy. "What would they want with a ship? They can swim! Plus they'd get dried out up on the deck anyway..."

Hayate started to laugh at his own remark before Gaius was nearly crushed by an assault that came from above. Luckily he managed to evade it in time and the blow instead shattered some of the wooden planks of the dock. The man that had leaped out of seemingly no where had a face that Hayate recognized. His brown eyes widened. It was a man that he had been friends with during his very first con while he had pretended to be a Marine officer.

"You pirates aren't going to get off this island that easy!" said the man that Hayate knew as Captain Hendrick the Third. He brought his massive fists together and they made a sound like metal striking metal. Captain Hendrick was also known as 'Metal Hands' because of an accident many years back that had lost him his human hands. They had been replaced with metal ones and had given him an extra powerful punch. "Abandoning your debts and then causing a ruckus is unforgiveable!" He struck a pose by showing off his arm muscles. They were HUGE. They were easily the size of Hayate's head.

(Don't defeat him just yet. Hayate's got a background with this guy that's going to get revealed. DUN DUN DUNNNNNNn)

[salva]

(so it looks like we lost Leo huh?)

Susano sheethed his sword. He was a little out of breath but he would manage. He looked over to Gaius, his new captain. The guy was already halfway up the rood that lead to the main port. Then his fellow crew mates started to run after him so he just shrugged and followed suit.

He was a about a minute behind them, then he stopped about three quarters of the way to the port. He realised that this was the way that the Marines had come from and that he had been there since early that morning. There was no way that the pirates ship could be there. And what was worse they where all heading for a heavily armed and well manned war ship.

"Damn!" He said as he raced toward the main port hoping to warn his new nakama.

He arrived at the port and saw them get attacked by a marine that looked like he was fairly high in rank. Gaius and Taffy dodged his first attack. The the marine decided to go after Gaius, but Gaius dodged all of his attacks, just barely sometimes though. He though about helping but he remembered how well Gaius had handled himself back in town. Susano figured that his captain could deal with this. He decided to make sure that no other marines decided to try to join the fight.

[delsha]

Ooc: argh sorry for the delay again guys. Lifes been Hittin' me with reality punches all month.

Ic:

"Great." whispered Gaius to himself. This guy had some big muscles, and for styrofoam those hands where pretty sturdy. His crew mates had all followed him to the Port, so even if he lost they could take out the marine and escape.

Gaius ran at the marine and fainted a round house kick. The marine moved to block. However Gaius' leg never hit his opponents arm. Instead Gaius came out if his fake roundhouse and did a slide kick aimed at the marines legs. His attack hit, knocking the marine off balance. Gaius got up quickly and jumped high in the air.

"Dragon Impact Style: Meteorite!!!" he yelled as he came crashing down. The marine dodged, much to the captains surprise. They stood opposite each other and stared.This was gonna take a while. Then Gaius got an idea. A double team!

"Hayate! Come help me kick this guys ass. Taffy, Susano! You guys go capture the marines ship!"

The marine commander came at Gaius with a furious combo. Gaius dodged most of the shoots but the last one caught him off guard. It was a heavy hit, knocking Gaius back into a building.

Gaius got himself up. He was bleeding from his head and mouth. He wiped it away with his sleeve.

"Thats some strong styrofoam man!" he shouted at the marine, whom then recorved a puzzled look on his face. "Hayate." he said to his theatrical nakama. "Really could use your help."

[SHADE SMASH]

(OOC: oooooo Cant wait to see where Kuro is going with this XD)

Ignoring what was happening behind her, the candy-loving girl sat on the ground the applesauce way, with crossed arms, completely caught up in the mystery of their ship! How could their ship have disapeared in a matter of seconds? How many fish exactly stole their beautiful Ship? Was it true that she was gone long enough for fish to steal it? On and on the questions went in her mind, steam literally coming from her ears as she attempted her best to discover the mystery, constantly shoving some candy in her mouth every few seconds to keep her brain rolling.

But, somebody had to open their big mouth and ruin her wonderful pointless concentration! More infuriating was how that little someone happened to forget her name!!! Pausing, her mind going blank, her hand frozen in mid air and her face reddening. Slowly she looked behind her, spotting this treachorous cruel man at once. She jumped up onto her feet and ran over to him grabbing him by his shirt, looking him in the eye and then....

"YOU FORGOT MY NAME ALREADY?!?" She exclaimed, tears enveloping her eyes as she realized her newly found friend who gave her all that joyous candy forgot her name already. "How could you I thought we were friends!!!!" She said, tears rolling down her face, looking just like a kid who didn't have their way. With a sniffle, she used the back of her arm to try and wipe away the tears which gathered. "Anyways! Why would you think fish wouldn't steal a ship? It beats swimming doesnt it?" She asked, tears still rolling down her face but now she tried her best to stop them.

Fish just had to be the most logical explanation! Not to mention, only fish can make the port they docked on so unfamiliar! 'Cause if you look around, it doesn't look at all like the port that they docked on, in fact it looks like a completly unfamiliar dock! She should know, she ran into the town after staring at this place for SOOO LONG!(Otherwisely known as 2 1/2 minutes) So only fish could do that!!!

Before she could make her point clear, Gaius singled them out for new jobs. Hayate was going to help him defeat the marine and herself and Susano were going to search for a new ship. At once she got over her Whiny self! She could not let down her captain! Her tears vanishing as if into thin air, only leaving behind puffy eyes but she ran up to Susano and ran in the direction she believe to see bird like sails in.

"Aye-aye Captain! Be back in a bit!" She screamed becoming her loving self all over again. Leaving behind the drama queen she was, and sadly, the still rather big bag of sweets on the ground...

[Kurosaki]

Hayate's eyes widened as his eyes were drawn to the guy's face. Instantly he recognized the man as someone he had served with as a Marine back a couple of years ago. That was, under that dare that he couldn't pretend to be a Marine for a year with that old man. Hayate's eyes narrowed as the memories of all of the lies he had told came flooding into his mind. Even though he was never motivated by a sense of loyality to some World Government, he had managed to convince everyone he worked with that he was willing to die to enforce the will of the WG.

All the while Hayate had only had one thing in mind. To prove himeself so that he could get a lead role in a real performance. On stage! The glamour of it all had been what had kept him from cracking in that year.

Now here he was, a pirate now, standing in front of one of the men that he had lied to about being willing to die to destroy the age of the pirates. How ironic.

Gaius shouted toward Hayate and he snapped out of his stupor. His saber drawn, Hayate decided to do what was asked of him. This was his new life now, it seemed. That was when Captain Hendrick punched Gaius over and over. Gaius somehow still stood up, bleeding, asking for Hayate's help again.

"Hayate?" questioned Captain Hendrick, getting distracted as he spotted Hayate's face out of the corner of his cruel-looking eyes and recognized it. "Wait, what? Captain Suzuki, what are you doing here? I knew that you had left the Marines but to sink this low as to frantanize with pirates! How disgusting!"

"Heh, you've jumped to too many conclusions Captain Hendrick," said Hayate brushing his hand through his hair and straightening up as though he were a Marine officer. He looked deadly serious. "I have been working with the Marines this entire time. I've been undercover to catch these... Pirates." Hayate turned toward Gaius, his back toward Hendrick, as though turning against his new Captain.

Hayate smirked. Then he winked and smiled. It was all part of the plan.

"YAYAYAYAYAY!" laughed Hendrick with all of his muscular might, grasping his big belly and nearly falling over. "That's my boy, Suzuki!" With that he slapped Hayate on the back enthusiastically. That was when Hayate rounded on him, saber drawn, and put the blade at the man's throat.

"Or, perhaps you shouldn't trust a pirate to tell the truth," Hayate told him with a superior look on his face. "One false move and I'll kill you where you stand. Now let all of these pirates and myself go free. You know you can't beat me in a fight, Hendrick."

[salva]

Susano was pretty sure that the crews ship had been stolen by fish. He had never seen it but he was sceptical that fish could steal a vessel of any kind. Unless of course they meant fishmen, but.... Oh wait now he was rambleing to himself and Gaius had said his name. He had a tendency to get sidetracked mentaly durring conversations. Heck he would do it even when he was just listening to people talk.

He, Susano that is was to go with Taffy and clear out the marine ship so they could steal it.

Susano made his way to the ship. It looked like a small cruiser. It had two masts and was armed with about ten light cannons. The deck seemed pretty empty. He searched the ship and found a few sailors whom he quickly dispatched. Aside from that there wasn't much else. He figured they had defeated most of the crew in town.

He decided to head back to the main deck and see how Gaius and Hayate where doing.
He came up just as Hayate was sticking his sabre into the big marines neck. " Well that guy's gonna need a doctor." he said to himself.

[delsha]

Gaius was crushed! CRUSHED I SAY!!!! Hayate had tricked them all. It was terible... oh wait never mind. That was basically what ran through his head over the course of about fifteen seconds. He sat down to rest himself. He smiled at Hayate.

" Good job, man!! But I think you may be killing him."

He got up and walked over to the captain. He looked him over then gave him that stupid smile f his. "Let him live Hay." he said waving to his nakama so that he would remove the saber. The captain fell down to his knees holding his neck. "Shit..." Gaius ripped the sleeve of his shirt and tied in around the captains neck. That ought help. He then came to eye level with the marine. "Look sorry about that, I don't really like killing people... I'm sure Hayate is sorry too, right Hayate? Anyway since you'll probably live be sure to tell them you where defeated by the Delgado pirates."

Gaius was done. For a second he felt like he was being a bit to intimidating, but then again he was a pirate, it came with the territory. He saw Susano wave to them that the marine ship was clear. He turned to Hayate. "You ready?" He didn't really wait to hear his answer before turning to go to their new ship.

As they pulled out of port he couldn't help but feel that they where forgetting something. About a day later he realized that they had left Lukas. They headed back and picked him up. Turns out that their first ship hadn't been stolen but it was just in a different port. All that money had however be taken by the citizens of the island.

Gaius felt bad for the marines so he decided to leave them their ship. But that was all though, everything else: the food, weapons, a crate that was labeled sea stone, and surprisingly a large supply of candy( Taffy went crazy) they took. Pirates you know.

After that little sweet adventure on the island of sugar the Delgado Pirates where off to sea once again.

OOC: YES!!! We're finally off this island. Next stop North Blue for our alliance with the GDP