Fortune Pirates Train

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When David successfully did his mini combo and to his misfortune, ha!, they only just missed his captain. However, the chef was glad. He had lost his fighting addiction, or so he thought, when he befriended a person who he had also punched the living lights out of. Yet, the fighter wanted to continue, so there he stood, breathing in a steady pace. The same eyes that the red head gave him at Shivre Mountain sent shivers down his spine, and the same mouth that challenged the martial artist did it again. The warning that Berry was now serious didn't affect the man by that much, yet what he did next seemed a bit.. odd.

The devil fruit user, which the chef didn't really know what was devil fruits are, used his ability to propel himself towards the surprised 'enemy.' Now, it felt different. The only thing he could do is throw a punch and hope it reaches Berry's face in time. Somehow, it didn't. Somehow, he managed to get out of the direction of the punch by turning.. like a snake or something, and even taken the chance to kick the boy. He hadn't been prepared for this, so the martial artist felt quite uneven, a quite sad expression on seeing how it wasn't even. He went pretty far, however determination was now shining in his eyes. The bouncer then repeated the motion, which David was already used to before it was used to 'fly' into the sky.

Looking upwards, he could only see the sun that raised every morning, and descended into the night. Suddenly, a shadow alerted the lad as he rolled unto the floor, merely dodging a attack that looked as if it was a weapon in itself, he didn't really appreciate having to dodge all the moves yet it also increased his awareness. Feeling a light shake go around the deck, David could only stare at the person who had managed to actually fly. What was he? How could he do that? No more questions aside, he gulped. 

He felt everything becoming heavier, and both men's eyes met. It was like a mirror image, seeing the same need to fight and excitement in Berry's eyes. The shout for David to unleash all that he could awakened him. The real battle begun as his cap got carefully placed onto the floor.

Running with a speed that couldn't be perceived, the martial artist focused on his legs as he jumped into the air and began to spin, making it seem like a top spinner but sideways, slammed his right heel onto the merchant, which he had no choice but to block. The damage done by the kick would be excruciating, as David got into his position for his second attack. Making his leg into a whip, he dashed it at the red head's legs, causing immense pain and making Berry fall over. These attacks was named 'Aeries Heel' and 'Aeries Sweep', yet he didn't have to shout it out as he wasn't that serious. It was only now that he named such 'good' techniques that the unaware fighter couldn't notice when Berry hit the chef. He got blown back, yet it was a great time to use his evasive technique.

Using his fist to stop himself, he launched himself at the Captain with one final thing to do. Preparing to plant his fists onto various areas of the captain of the Fortune Pirates, the determined fighter started doing his technique that won fights at his home town. The illusions of fists thrusting in and back was created as they all touched Berry.

"FIST BARRAGE!"

It was hell.

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David's "Fist Barrage" came flying in as a multitude of punches began to come in on Berry.  The captain threw his arms up in in a tight guard to block the blows, which worked for the first 2 punches as they smashed into his forearms.  However, the 3rd blow broke his guard and separated his arms.  Then a 4th punch connected with his stomach, a 5th to his chest, and a 6th came in for his face.  The redhead only understood the points of contact being made on his body due to feeling them when it happened as the young fighter's fists were moving too fast.  Berry needed an out but lifting his legs for an attempted escape bounce while being rushed would only lead to him losing his center of gravity and getting pummeled more so the captain did the only thing he could; he head butted  David's fist on the 6th blow with all of his might, and using his devil fruit powers he bounced off of David's fist and back flipped 5 yards.

Once Berry landed he quickly stomped the ground and started a spin attack of his own.  Bouncing 1 foot off the ground and spinning at a rate of about 5 times a second, the captain stretched both his arms wide out and came in at high speed to David.  His arms became a continuous spin of backhands and hooks that landed on the first mate's left shoulder and left thigh as he had to use his left leg and left arm to block the rush of blows.  When Berry landed he bounced again and he repeated the attack with the same result, multiple blows were striking against David's guard as the young man was being pushed back.  When the redhead touched down on the ground for the last bounce the young fighter's arms were up in full guard expecting another flurry of fists but it didn't happen; instead Berry spread his legs and came bouncing onto David and wrapped up his arms and upper body in his legs and tackled him onto the ground.

The captain had a huge advantage; a full ground mount with both of David's arms pinned.  Berry threw a punch straight down and it smashed into the melee fighter's face, causing his left cheek to instantly swell.  David then kicked his legs hard and smacked the deck pushing Berry's body forward and then used his arms to push the captain back, so that the captain was still in a full mount but on the young man's stomach instead which freed up David's arms.  Berry came down with another blow from his left fist which David avoided by moving his head to the side just in time to avoid it as it smacked into the deck making it shake.  The melee conqueror then grabbed his captain's left shoulder while the fist was still in contact with the deck and pulled him down closer to his body and swung his left elbow and slammed it into the redhead's face, bruising his cheek and making it bleed.  The momentum from the blow was followed through by David with thrusting his hips up again and rolling over Berry then getting on top of him.  

Now it was David's turn to rain down some punches, and he did so in quick procession, hitting Berry's guard at first as he clenched his forearms together but then a punch to his forehead and nose got threw, giving the captain a hell of a nose bleed.  Berry kicked the ground as hard as he could and using his devil fruit powers caused himself to spin fast about 5 feet off the ground and heading in a sideways direction.  David followed his instincts and wrapped his legs around Berry when they first took off from the ground and as he clinged to him he still threw punches at his captain even while they were spinning.  2 of them landed on Berry's face blowing his head one way and then another as they flew through the air.

The captain grabbed David's left leg with his arm and pulled it off his waste then used his free arm to slam it into the young man's chest which sent him crashing hard into the deck on his back.  The impact was so hard David bounced off the wooden floor a bit even though no use of Berry's power was involved in the blow.  As the captain landed on his feat David's eyes turned white as if he passed out...but suddenly his eyes rolled back forward from the top of his head.  As soon as the fighter landed from his bounce on the deck he did a hand spring to his feet and jump kicked the captain in the chest sending him 10 feet and smashing him into the quarter deck that held the gym.  Berry's head knocked a hole in the wall but he stayed standing as he slumped forward from the impact.  The young fighter then rushed in and delt a body blow with his fist that made the redhead double over.  As the captain bent he threw himself into the ground and slammed his fist into it, causing a bounce that made him shoot straight up and smash the top of his head into David's chin; which sent his head reeling back and knocking another hole into the gym wall from the quarterdeck.  

Both men stood before each other... and both of them were breathing heavier now, sweat pouring from their heads, blood all over their faces... Berry had a nose bleed and a cut on his cheek and David had a swollen cheek and had almost bit clean through his bottom lip thanks to the pirate leader's head butt.  Both men stared firmly at each other.  Was this going to stop, wasn't this way out of hand for what was supposed to be a sparring session?  But they didn't want to stop; this was way to much fun as they both took the brief interlude to smile at each other. 

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The fists felt like missing daggers, flying from one place from another, hitting Berry until a sudden realization hit him. The merchant had actually bounced off!? Running after the man who had landed, the youngest of the two came into the sudden hit of hooks and backhands. Thanks to his senses, he managed to block them yet it still hurt. The repetition of the same move caused the determined fighter to go start to move backwards. Expecting another barrel of attacks, David put up his defensive stance.Yet it didn't happen. All that happened was a tackle, and it caused him to fall towards the floor. His arms was pinned, so since that was his main weapon, the lad couldn't of done anything. Except, he did. The boy that was on the floor's cheek started to swell up, due to the fact that he was apparently getting punched in the face. Wow. Using the same 'technique' as the devil fruit user, the martial artist used his heel to bounce Berry upwards, causing his arms to be free.

After another rain of punches from both sides, both men stood there, their faces equally messed up. The urge to fight was clearly seen on both men's faces. Looking around the deck, the boy noticed that there was a few cracks. Wanting to stop, the first mate raised his hand to say something but it wasn't seen as Berry used his devil fruit to launch himself onto the chef. It made him almost puke out blood, due to the fact that it was a surprise attack. Landing on the floor, once again, he kneed Berry in the stomach and flung him, using his feet, elsewhere. Getting back up, the man decided to knock some sense into the merchant. Nobody had dared to try and get a surprise attack out of the boy who came from Loguetown, and it was a start.

Running towards the captain, his fists went back to the illusions of being many, yet it was all directed at a certain point. The captain's stomach. They all landed pretty well, and once the combo of punches was finished, he blew the red head away. That was the mistake. It felt like Berry was using the devil fruit that he had to his advantage, but the man thought that it was a actual type of fighting style, so after analyzing how it was done, David smacked down his heel onto the floor. It hurt. IT HURTS. Grabbing his knee, he felt extreme pain on his foot as a few splinters was on them. Calming himself, he stood calmly and ready to attack when Berry tackled him again.

Now, this was getting tiring. The attacks came left and right, they both seemed to go for ages until one attack caused the 'expert' chef to go to his knees. Berry launched a jab at his stomach, and since he had cooked himself a mini.. fridge before the fight, it almost made him through up. The look of concern grew on the merchant's face as the brawler found out it was a great way to come back. Placing one hand on the floor, he spun himself until he let go, his foot colliding with Berry's face, knocking him backwards. Now, it was time to fall. David then let out a breath of 'you win' before falling. Unknown to him, it was the same thing that the falling captain said.

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The fight was over.  Both men conceded victory at the same time as they lay on the deck of the ship.  Berry's white sweats and tank top were covered in blood.  His face, legs, arms, stomach, chest, all had contusions of red and pink coloring except for his leg that was kicked in the early part of the fight that lead to him being knocked down.  That leg had a purple swelling on the thigh.  The freckles on his forearms helped to hide the swelling and discoloration that was building up, but they were in bad shape due to having to block David's tremendous punches and kicks.  The young warrior across from him didn't look any better.  His dark complexion his some of the damage but the captain knew from the feedback he received when he would hit David that he took some real damage.  

Berry knew why they both gave in at the same time:  This was sparring.  Improvement was the desired goal and injuring each other past the point of no return was not what was called for.  Not only that, but the ship had been out to see for less than a day and it already seemed like a war zone with the damage that had been done to the deck.  Berry sat up.

"Guess we can call that a draw then.  *cough cough*  Come on tough guy, lets go to the front lower deck.  The medicine and bandages are there."

The redhead got up slowly on wobbly legs.  Walking into the front quarter deck he made his way down the stairwell to the front lower deck and started to rummage through the supplies once again as he did when David needed first aid from the workout routine.  The young fighter followed soon after and the 2 managed to apply some topical ointments and bandages.  The work was sloppy to say the least and the splinters in David's foot were rough to deal with.  

After a great deal of time had passed trying to mend wounds Berry noted David's face really started to swell.  Lumps on his head and cheek were bad, but his lower lip was fattened pretty bad thanks to the head but in the fight.  The damage was almost comical and the captain let a laugh slip from his lips.  He noticed David did the same thing too when the young fighter was staring at him.  "Fwa do dunny?"  (What's so funny?)  The sounds that leaked out of the redhead's mouth surprised himself.  His mouth didn't feel right at all: it was like his tongue had no room to move to make sounds and his lips were in the way.  "Da DAP!!"  (Aw CRAP!!).  The captain ran into the bathroom and looked into the mirror.  "DAI DACE!!  DAI DEFFIDLE DAC!!"  (MY FACE!!  MY BEAUTIFUL FACE!!)  (The image staring back at Berry through the mirror looked a lot like this :  s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/9HELo7lQc8cAs_QJzRLmbA--/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9MzYwO3E9OTU7dz00ODA-/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/U5m2Cwppc3A/0.jpg

The captain turned and looked at David who was laughing so hard he was rolling on the ground.  Berry rummaged through the bathroom cabinets and found a small mirror and brought it to David and handed it to him.  "Do do debber boff du do!"  (You're no better off you know!) "Dra ha da da ba"  (Ha ha ha ha ha).  The captain laughed back at his first mate and then started bleeding from the mouth and drooling.  Grabbing his own face he yelled "Douch! di berts!"  (Ouch!  It hurts!)

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After the fight, both men lied on the floor. It was a draw, since nobody fell first.. the martial artist liked to think to himself. The lad's state was appalling, the blood was spilling out of him as if it was a hole in a water pole. His clothes was roughed up, yet it was hardly cutting apart. His gloves remained to be normal, only stained with the spit and crimson red liquid of the merchant's body. The one who cooked couldn't feel his face, so the first mate of the crew believed it to be numbness. Berry wasn't holding back, and neither was he. 

It had came to David that they both didn't need to go all out. After all, they was going to a island renowned to having martial arts masters specializing in a different type of fighting style. The boy could see himself getting roughened up each duel with the unknown masters of various arts of fighting, so it was a bad start having to be bandaged up and not even near the island. If this was gonna to continue, the crew needs a doctor as soon as possible, or else they won't even be able to go anywhere if they only have broken bones.

The captain of the crew got up, and 'encouraged' the one lying on the floor to get up. Now, in fights David could be very determined to win, but when he is completely tired he has the stubbornness of a cat. It took him several rounds of, ok, wait no, ok sure, nah, before getting up. The red head was already gone, yet his ears heard his footsteps. Following them, he found himself at the first quarter of the deck, where Berry was scavenging the pile of supplies, even though none of them was certainly useless, in his hands was some treatments and bandages. The chef got some of the bandages and placed them on areas that he thought needed healing. Even though he did fight a lot, his father was the only one treating his wounds so the healing he did onto himself wasn't that perfect. His captain did him a favor by getting rid of those splinters. The process hurt him deeply.

The fighter had noticed that the merchant was eyeing him, something seemed pretty off about David. He felt a bit offended when the captain let off a slight laughter. Now looking at the captain's 'new face' he started guffawing like a hyena. The voice of the gun shooter wasn't helping. "Fwa do dunny?"  He couldn't respond due to the fact that the laughter was almost choking away his oxygen, he forced himself to stop. "Da DAP!!" It was hard to keep a straight face, as he followed his leader to a mirror where the man exclaimed that his face was beautiful. Not now it isn't! Well, looking at his own wasn't really better. (His face looked more like this: genoblaste.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/img_6312.png?w=300&h=169)

Telling Berry that he'll prepare deserts for both of them, David watched as his captain excitedly went to the dining room to wait. Getting some more supplies to create a cold sundaes for both of them. Going into the kitchen, the younger lad first prepared the cups and spoons. Since the chef wanted it to be a extravagant desert, he picked two medium large cups. (Something like this: cdnimg2.webstaurantstore.com/images/products/medium/33478/440724.jpg)

 Wanting to follow the tradition, he then picked out vanilla ice cream and put in equally three scoops on each cup. It's carefully put at the bottom. Looking around for any toppings, he couldn't find some. (Not sure if the One Piece universe would have different flavors, correct me if I might be wrong) Getting out chocolate ice cream, he would mix the two into both vanilla and chocolate. This would be for his sundae. For the captain's he put in a strawberry flavor, due to the fact that the hair of Berry is quite lighter then the strawberry, and so he repeated mixing the vanilla and strawberry ice cream. After such, he placed a cherry on top of both the 'sundaes' and drizzled both in a home made cherry juice, since that helped the sore muscles. Adding some fruit to make it a bit healthy, he placed both deserts on a tray while going to the dining table and setting things up. Once done, he placed the sundae in front of Berry. He had a smirk in his face when he told the captain:

"Dig in."

The first bite almost caused David brain freeze.

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The captain took a bite of his sundae and a smile crossed his mouth, or at least, a mockery of a smile as his face was still swollen.  The ice cream started leaking from his lips and mouth and back into the cup in front of him as his cheeks reddened and he uttered the words "Boo doob!"  (Soo good!).  He stopped talking so as to prevent more embarrassing spillage and ate at a slow pace, but as he looked across the table and saw David holding his nose and forehead from a brain freeze he started to laugh which made the dessert spill from his lips again.  

The captain ate carefully for the rest of his meal.  He then spoke with the young fighter as he saw him get up to do the dishes, "Do die fink de weed a bokter.  Dat dill de our bext dadama."  (So I think we need a doctor.  That will be our next nakama.)  Berry's speech had improved as the ice cream helped cut back on the swelling with its refreshing coolness.  "Dime donna dok dai daice in data, diron da dothes, den dake der de don durse."  (I'm going to soak my face in water, iron my clothes, then make sure we're on course).  The captain soaked his face first in the bathroom with more water he drew from the pump and it improved things enough where he looked passable as a human being again.  He then set about doing laundry and making the course correction he wanted.

The initial course Berry set the ship on would have the crew at Dojo Island in just a few weeks.  However not manning the helm as often as what was needed would make the trip 3 to 4 weeks long.  The captain knew this and was fine with it; the training he wanted for David and himself would hopefully impress the isolationists on the island and the redhead needed to add an element to get the isolationist islander's trust.  Berry had no idea what that element was yet, so the slow pace of the trip would give him time to think.  He knew economics was the answer; if you have something someone really wants they will always at least let you approach their door step, but the item or service has to be REALLY good for the salesman to actually get through the door.

"A small island of isolationists in a martial arts culture... I wonder if they have refrigeration?  Maybe they've never had ice cream!... or maybe the antibiotics we have in storage they've never had and it would help them fight disease..." the captain spoke aloud to himself with a stressed and yet excited tone.  Realizing his speech was back to normal made Berry happy enough to smile again, which hurt, so he stopped doing it immediately.  He then went to David and found him in his room.

"Hey David that ice cream sundae was good for my face.  Rinse your head in cold water too, that helped me a lot."  Berry looked past David and out the port window, noticing the sun was starting to go down.  "Okay, I'm going to repair the damage to the deck and while doing that I'll call that first watch.  I'll come get you when I'm done so you can take over and I can get some sleep."  The captain then gave the young cook another cheesy smile and then a thumbs up.  As he did his mouth bleed again.  He quickly wiped it away with his hand to save face.  "We've had an interesting first day... I just want to say thanks!  We are going to make an awesome team.  Oh and by the way tomorrow if your up to it we can go over some team work exercises on the deck.  It won't be crazy sparring, but I had some ideas for your fighting style and my devil fruit powers that could lead to some interesting combinations.  What do ya say about that partner, sound good?"  Berry realized he just said "ya" instead of "you".  He was already getting more and more comfortable with his new crew mate to you show his normal self.  It was never an issue of trust, Berry already trusted David with his life; it was an issue of embarrassing himself.  The captain didn't want the chef to lose respect for him.  Of course he didn't realize his cheesy expressions with smiles, thumbs up, and formal way of speaking constantly were different.  Berry always spend his time with only one other person really, his mentor Albert Lisenberry, so since Albert tolerated Berry behaving in this way he thought it was normal.

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The boy who was a battle addict loved to set himself in cold places, so it came to a surprise when he almost got brain freeze. Scooping up more pieces of the ice cream, it had pushed the potential of him actually catching brain freeze. Thinking why, the lad had a flash back of when the chef woke up. Warmth greeted him, and David didn't even notice it!? The boy has to start his temperature training once he awakens the next day. Looking over to the merchant,  it brought an smile to his broken face when the captain had a face of satisfaction. Watching him also drool it out had no effect, since when he was at his own home town, he had to watch his younger brother eat. Letting out a muffled chuckle, which let out LITTLE of the ice cream, the fighter accidentally scooped up a large portion of the sundae and ate it. This was one of the biggest mistakes that he had done. Holding his head, David almost screamed. Brain freeze. It wasn't a good feeling.

After a few moments of internal screaming, he returned to chewing his desert. Once finished, the chef decided to clean the dishes, since he personally thought the captain would approve of it. Taking the dishes, he went to the sink and started to clean it. Looking at both the cups, it was almost as if they didn't use it in the first place. There was some bits of the ice cream melting, so it made his duty more easier. While scrubbing, the red head that was resting after finishing his meal spoke while David was doing his job. Picking out the pieces, he had mentioned getting a 'bokter', which made him choke on his tongue. The silly sounds of the captain almost made him giggle like a idiot. Yet if they did continue their training, then it was obvious that that certain person would have to qualify. The older of the two then suggested that the boy wash his face, and said that he would do the same and then iron his clothing. By that time, David had already finished cleaning.

Going to the bathroom, he saw that when Berry had left it, his face was more human. Wanting to get rid of the beastly face, the boy went in and splashed his face with the liquid. After doing that, seeing that he was a bit tired, retreated to his room to take a nap and do other things. Looking around it, he tidied up his bed. That is pretty much all he did. Bored, he did daily push ups and pull ups. Stretching and such blah blah blah. It was at the point when David resorted to scratching himself.  Feeling his face, it became more recognizable in stead of just being bumps. Being called by Berry actually made him smile, it felt like he was useful, even if it was just getting talked to.

While getting talked too, Berry turned to the port window and so did David. It actually hit him that this was one day. Felt like three or two. Even told that Berry was gonna repair stuff was nice. Yet what killed his mood was the smile and the 'thumbs up' that was given to him.  That thumbs up reminded him that he had to become more maturer if he was gonna be in this crew. Thinking of the new person's expression, he let out a chuckle. Oh wait, Berry was talking about sparring again? Making up a new team attack? Sure then. Returning the awkward thumbs up, he watched as Berry left the room. Getting out a drawing pad, he drew himself with black hands, just like his father had.

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The sun was dropping quick. Berry decided to do some repairs before nightfall; the holes to the wall of the quarter deck were top priority as the north blue would be cold at night. The cracks to the deck floor could wait until the next day as they didn't break all the way through. There wouldn't be time to fix the main deck anyway. The luxury design of the ship meant the walls were insulated so a fix of the walls would take more time.

The captain lit up a cigarette and got to work. After spending several hours doing thorough repairs (with periodic breaks to correct the course of the ship and be a lookout for problems on the seas) the red head went to David's room and woke him up. "Okay, repairs done, no problems out there. It's cold but its clear outside. The sea isn't too rocky."  Berry handed him his coat. The captain was so stocky that his coat could fit David even if he wore another coat himself. The layers would keep him warmer. "Wake me up in 4 hours and we'll trade off okay?"

The redhead then went to his room and got into some pajamas and then went to bed. While asleep he dreamed about the men he shot on the Shivre Mountain pass in the rescue operation to save the mayor. Berry hadn't killed many men in his life. In fact the 3 men he was forced to put down back on the island meant he'd killed a total of 4 people in by now. Reliving their deaths gave the captain nightmares. The intensity of making a snap decision knowing there was no other choice but regretting it anyway.

Sometime in the middle of his dream Berry heard a voice. Almost like an animalistic growl the voice told him, "just say yes". The image of the men he shot intensified and then transformed. The men laying on the ground after the bullets ripped through their bodies changed into the visage of his dead parents. For a moment Berry could see himself as if he was having an out of body experience. He was now holding a pistol and wearing a tricorn hat which made him look just like the man who killed his mother and father. The words " just say yes" repeated themselves and the captain could hear what sounded like a cage or a box rattling. The red head woke up screaming just as David came in to wake him up for his watch.

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Looking at his masterpiece, David felt kinda terrible. For what was in front of him, was a badly drawn picture of a man. The fists was appalling, the coloring would make a real artist quit his job and probably go to a mental asylum. He had always beat up his younger brother due to the fact of his taunts of his picture. It even made himself get a bigger frown on how his captain would most likely disapprove of it. Then having a 'oh god, he would do this' expression where he thought that David would be given another one of his 'Greatness' thumbs up and 'Cheeky' smile which made him internally scream. Yet, it also made him giggle.

It didn't matter what appearance it had, but the meaning. During the month of David's healing through out the battle with his brother, his father would used to come to him and tell him stories. Usually including a pirate. And a marine. And then the pirate gets executed. It made him laugh, even though he was supposed to be a mature person. Which I think we all know, he isn't. After that, he would say, hope your doing well, and leave. Yet this was an exception. All his father did was go in, sit on a chair, and his whole body would get covered in a black steel coverage. The superior would always hit David when he spoke while healing, so he just shut his mouth. He told him about a legacy, a inheritance that the brawler would have. His mother rejected it, and ran to the seas. Yet.. his father also said that he would keep it.

Due to the fact that his brother had taught him about lucid dreaming, the young lad had almost spent every night sharpening his skills, to the point of being able to just wake up at what time by 'ripping' out reality. After such, he would fall towards his bed and wake up. Yet this wasn't the case. Tucking himself into bed, he entered his dream. Now having a crew, he visioned what would be his goal. Being sat on top of so called 'karate masters' while tons of pins was pinned onto him. But suddenly, everything was torn apart. The pins started falling, and everything melted until it was just him standing on the same rocky and dusty floor. It was the war zone. The same scenario happened. Deja vu, am I right? While he was running, bullets flew past. They almost seemed to be the same thing, the dream ending while he was running but it didn't. The bullets penetrated his arms and legs, causing him to fall over. However, when he did.. a sword came down, and broke the dream barrier. Forcing him to fall crashing downwards, into his bed. Nightmare time has ended.

Waking up, he had the desperate urge to talk to his captain. Almost sprinting there, he opened it only to hear a death defying screech. Getting prepared to fight, all he found out that it was his captain. Deciding to put up a conversation about what they have both experienced, David brought up the topic.

"So uh.. nightmare?"

"...Yeah. What about you?"

"..Yea..."

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"Well, I'm sorry you had to see me like that", the captain told his first mate. Berry's face was red with embarrassment and his breathing hadn't quite calmed. "What the heck was that voice?" The redhead thought to himself. It really had disturbed him. Such feeling came from the voice, as if it carried illness and the disease it spread was one of fear, anger, and regret. Berry zoned out with a blank stare as he sat on the edge of his bed and saw that David was staring at him when he snapped out of it.

"It was a strange dream David, one I've never had before. I'm guilty of killing others. I shot 3 men to death back in Shivre Mountain. They were bandits...and they were intent on taking something important from me...but they were still people. I've done a good job of putting it out of my mind, but we can't control our dreams can we?"

The captain stared a moment at David and forced a look of ease on his face, to let the young fighter across from him know that he was okay. It was also to fool himself into believing it; sometimes self-delusion can actually be healthy under the right circumstances, and Berry was hoping this was one of them.

"How about you David? You alright?"

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The question, 'you alright', wasn't a good thing to hear. In fact, if it wasn't for himself being able to force his nightmare to be over, the one screaming louder would be himself. With a shaky hand, the boy would put up a thumbs up before reluctantly putting it down, while murmuring 'who am I kidding,' to himself. The chef faced the captain, with a his heart still beating rapidly, and spilled out the beans. It felt like as there was more detail, the young lad started to calm down. By the time David was finished, his heart was normal. The normal brawler would breath of a sigh of relief.

Thanks to the lucid effect of an alarm clock, he was right on time. Four hours has passed since they both slept, and David felt terrible. Thinking of something to get them in a good mod, the inspired chef declared, with his eyes shining with his goal set, that he would make them coffee. But this wasn't any type of coffee, no, this was gonna be a GOOD coffee. One that wakens you up and lets your energy burst through the ratings, now.. uh.. lets see. Running to the place where the storage is, the brawler had made sure that David had got the ingredients and cups for coffee. He had also planned to make a few biscuits, since.. why not?

Making sure that he was ready, the excited chef started making the biscuits. Putting the flour, salt and sugar into the bowl, he was about to place the butter until he reminded himself to put in the baking powder. Throwing butter into the bowl, the chef grabbed a sharp knife to make it absorb itself into the dry mixture. Putting milk, he mixed them both using his hands, adding more flour to make it less moist. After which, using his hands, he shaped it the dough into little circles. After cooking it for 15 minutes, it looked ready to eat. Now, it was for the tea. Getting two cups for both of them, he slam dunked the teabags into each of them before boiling the water using a pot. Once done, he poured the hot water into the cups, making sure that they get equal. Then, pouring milk and TONS of sugar, he mixed as if his life was depended on it, and added a cherry. He didn't need to, yet his mind was joking with him.

Placing the cup of coffee in front of the captain, who was eager to drink, he placed the tray of the freshly baked cookies in the middle of the table. After, of course, setting it out himself.
It was like breakfast to him.

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After listening to David's nightmare story and eating breakfast Berry got up from the kitchen table and gestured for the young fighter to follow him outside onto the main deck.  The sun was coming up over the horizon so it was still cold outside.  Extra sweaters and jackets were worn for warmth by the 2 men.  Berry walked across the deck and to the farthest end, leaving David near the back quarter deck right outside of the kitchen.  Since it wasn't full daybreak yet and still a little dark the pirate captain yelled to his comrade, "I want to show you something, keep your eyes on this coin."  Berry then took a coin from his front pants pocket and flicked it by holding the coin on the thumb and flicking it with his index finger.  The coin shot out of Berry's hands and bounced onto the deck, the circular helm wheel, the mast, off the deck again, and right to David who with his quick reflexes caught the coin with his right hand.  

"Not bad David, you've got good eyes and reflexes.  In case your wondering what happened I used the bounce powers I have on that coin.  So not only can I make myself bounce, but other objects and even other people I can make bounce as well."  

David stared at the coin in his hand for a second and then looked back at Berry who was approaching him.  He knew the captain was going to explain more.

"With this power you can move like you've never moved before.  So we are going to do some teamwork exercise.  We can devise attack and defense strategies to catch people off guard or to protect ourselves."  Berry then took a drag off of his cigarette and let out a white plume into the air.  "I'm going to push you now, don't defend against it, just go with it."

Berry then gave David a slight push with his hand on David's shoulder.  Having been slowly "budged" bye Berry caused David to shoot up into the air about 65 feet and then land where he once stood without taking any damage.  When David touched down on the deck he could feel himself bounce a second time which made him flip over Berry's head and land behind him.  When the captain turned and face the young fighter he just bounced he could see a look of excitement on the kid's face.

"Fun wasn't it?  Well guess what?  That was only about 1/4th the speed in which I could move you.  My idea is we gradually increase the speed and number of bounces and add more twisting/skipping/flipping motions until your body fully adjusts to being bounced around.  You'll move at different speeds and angles like you never have before.  Shall we begin?"

With a nod from David Berry started bouncing the young man across the deck.  At first things went pretty well as the speed was rather slow and Berry would remember to use the last bounce of any use of his power to slow David's momentum so he would land safely.  David started having fun with it when he realized there was no pain involved when he would bounce off objects and instead of using his hands and feet to catch himself he would just allow himself to bounce with whatever body part was bound to make contact with a surface area if he didn't try to protect himself; in other words David started bouncing off the deck with his head and his butt while laughing.  However problems started to arise when Berry upped the speed.

About the time the redhead started using his powers at about 4/5 it's full power and adding spins, flips, curves, and rotations is when David and Berry started having problems.  The speed made the "last bounce cushion effect" difficult as the redhead never used the power to safely relocate someone before.  The speeds and spinning were starting to throw off David's senses as well.  Soon the young man started landing awkwardly and slamming into objects as opposed to safely landing.  Like a crazy montage going from scene to scene, David would crash into the deck face first, then hit the mast with his back, then fly through the door of the front quarter deck and land in the gym knocking things over.  Berry finally called a stop to the training after a while.

"Well that went well I think.  With more practice I think we get can you bouncing at 100% speed with bounce moves.  Don't you think that went well?"  The captain looked at David.  David stared back with his face swollen again and a look of anger.  "Uuugh, sorry about that.  Hahahaha..."

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Being bounced about that much, you would think that it would be fun. Yes, yes it was. Until the captain for whatever reason decided to increase the speed. Being bumped into stuff and recoiling off was fun, yet crashing into stuff, getting more splinters then he had at his training session and regaining the ugly face that he had a day ago, the young fighter was obviously peeved. Thinking about how the boy could get his revenge on the captain, he obviously thought of giving him his own hell. Running back to the ship hold, he grabbed a pistol with rubber bullets.

Now, he offered to do his own personal type on training. Aiming the pistol, the young lad shot at Berry. Due to the fact that David couldn't aim for his life, literally, missing the Captain at such far away places that after which, his pride was cut down a bit. Throwing the gun away, the boy decided to increase the endurance of his leader. Preparing to do a bit of boxing, he found his bag of things that he got on the preparation to leave Shivre Mountain. Getting out boxing equipment, he threw gloves and a headgear at the redhead.

"Now that you've had your fun.." Wearing boxing gloves, the memories of himself ending up spending a day at martial artist bed from his father's training. His speech had was half way hear able, due to the fact that the boy's face was messed up. "I'll have mine." Starting off from quick punches, and watching Berry struggle to dodging them.  After a while, Berry was good with dodging the punches, but when David added the kicks, the sounds of pain got enhanced as the captain's cheeks got slapped about with the first mate's foot. When the curious trainer added his technique, 'Ashi Hiru', slamming down his heel that ended up with the captain on the floor. Chuckling, the chef exploded into a full out hearty laughter at the merchant, which ended with him getting a uppercut. 

Taking that as a challenge, a mini kickboxing spar was held. The merchant dealt tons of damage yet was very slow, making the martial artist dodge said punches and kicks quite easily. David on the other hand was quick, manage to create monstrous amount of damage yet after his barrage of attacks, it ended up with him breathing. Taking those hits that he gotten from the redhead since his fatigue wouldn't let him dodge as quick as he was before, the boy ended up rolling to evade attacks, it was his last resort to escape the damage after all. Seeming like both sides was losing energy, the first to collapse was David. After which, a loud thump was heard. The captain was also down.

Their faces was both messed up, and it felt as if they didn't learn their lesson from the other day, the sparring session that ended up with Berry having to clean up and repair the parts of the ship even though it was the only hours, since they set sail.

"Hey Captain."

"Yeah..?"

"How 'bout when we do this again, we have a proper doctor."

The red head merchant laughed.

~The End~