Storming a castle

[shenta]

The day was a sunny and nice day and Ryu exited the hotel he had been staying at here in loguetown. Ryu had been here for some time now as he has been looking to recruit members for his pirate crew but for some reason he has not been able to find any one willing to join his crew. There was one thing tho and that was he needed to get a price check on ships cause when he did ever manage to get him self a ship he would like a buy a nice one that could hold about 10 maybe 20 members. 

The half tiger mink human positioned his swords on his hip as he began to make his way to the ship yard, as he was making his way there he passed by the marines base that they had build here in the town, from what he heard they had a strong base commander and some pretty strong members among his team but ryu was not stupid enough to get into a fight with the marines for no reason so he continued to make his way towards the ship yard which was on the other side of the town from where he was at now. 

It took him a little while to get to the ship yard mostly cause he was making sire to check out the surrounding area and he was not really rushing to get there, as he was walking he had his peace pipe in his mouth as he enjoyed his cat nip and before he knew it he was standing in front of the ship yard. He watched as every one was hard at work as they was moving lumber or cutting logs for the ships. " Now those are some ships, would be nice to have one for my crew." Ryu would say as he exhaled the smoke in his lungs as a cloud of smoke. 

[SnowDog]

Compared to other islands he’s ventured, the shipyard year was the closest thing to heaven Oboro has seen. Compared to the the one man rowboat he’d spruced up and been paddling around in, these completely blew his out of the water! Literally could too, judging by the size of some of the armaments on them! He walked along the outskirts of the shipyards with his massive wrench slung across his back with stars in his eyes, fighting back the temptation to reach out and further examine the various ships being constructed or even disturb the other workers.

”Such exquisite craftsmanship! Ohhh and such fine material! Is that made of Green’s Oak? That only grows in particular regions of one of the other Blues! My you’ve certainly come a far way!” The Hammerhead fishman excitedly internalized his glee, his sharp-toothed filled smile curling at his lips as he studied the boats being constructed around him. Unfortunately to some onlookers overseeing him from afar, they didn’t see the Fishman’s interest on the same scholarly level as he did. A pair of on duty Marines instead saw a potential threat eyeballing the ships. Fishmen in these parts were feared adversaries, even after Arlong’s pirates had been taken out over two years ago. It was his actions that had helped install a bad reputation for Fishmen around the East Blue.

“Hey fin-head!” One of the marines called out as he approached where Oboro stood. The hammerhead shark man shifted his attention to the encroaching marine with a bit of confusion and curiosity on his face.

“Oh, uh- Hello, Officer!” Oboro happily replied, not entirely sure why he was being approached. As the marine drew near, the shark man looked down at the man who he had at least of foot over him.

“Don’t try and act all smug and innocent now, I saw you eyeballing those ships!” One of them accused him, followed by an index finger jabbing the center of his chest. “You’ve been staring at these ships planning on stealing one of them, aint’cha?!”

Oboro was shocked, embarrassed even as he was caught off guard by such a claim. Why he would never! Sure he would like to have a boat like this someday but half of the joy to him was building a vessel such as these himself, not trying to just take one for himself.

“No, no you got it all wrong!” Oboro tried to interject, waving his hands up defensively, “I was just admiring the-“

“Save it fish-face!” The Marine was quick to cut him off. “You stinkin’ fishmen think you can’t waltz back into the East Blue and just take back what you lost. Well not on my watch!”

[shenta]

The day had been going great as he was walking around the town of loguetown while he was checking out some of the ships that was being built. He has always wanted one but for now he can settle on his one man boat and hope that one day he would be able to gather a crew and sail the great blues of the four seas, to one day hopefully get into the grandline its self. as he was standing there peering out towards the water he could hear the noise of some one close by getting in trouble so he walked towards the area to see what he could see. 

As he arrived he was able to see every thing unfold from the start of it, there stood a hammer head fish man but it seemed that the marines was messing with him for no reason just cause he was looking at some ships like he was. He did not find this to be very fair, so ryu walked up behind the two men and tapped them on the shoulders. But as they turned there heads to see who was behind him ryu grabbed them both by the side of the head and slammed them together so hard it knocked them out and the two men fell down as they was now back to back on there ass.

" Hello my name is Ryu, i know its not much but allow me to treat you to a meal for how they treated you, just cause your a fish man dose not mean your bad. I hate people like that they take one person and then treat every one else like them the same." 

ryu would say as he bowed to the man, his slicked back spiky red hair flopped over as he bowed. He straightened back out as he took a hit off of his pipe and blew the air out. " I would tho advise that we head some where else soon before the other marines come showing up over this." ryu said as he laughed at the thought. 

[SnowDog]

Oboro only stood before the tiger-man as if frozen in time, the look upon his face expressing an emotion of both awe and bewilderment. One second he was being harassed by some marines, then next a stranger approached them, knocked out the marines, and then offered him lunch. He was dumbstruck.

“I- wha- but you-“ He murmured as he darted his focus from Ryu to the unconscious marines, the Red haired individual before him then introducing himself proper. “I’m- I’m Oboro...” the fishman responded back as he seemed to regain his composure somewhat, “I really appreciate the help there, but I don’t think that was entirely necessary.” Oboro gently stepped over the Marines, ready to head leave the site of this little kerfuffle.

“However, I will take you up on that offer! I’m not familiar with the area though, so I will follow along and leave the choice of venue to your expertise.”

[shenta]

Ryu just laughed at Oboru as he said that knocking the marines out was a little much but being a pirate ryu did not really care much for the marines and he could not really have them seeing his face. " I can see where your coming from, but im a pirate and well pirates do not care much for marines." Ryu would say taking another long puff off of his pipe. They would walk about the streets for about 15 minutes before they came to a nice looking place that had a skull mark on its sign. " The drunken harpy, i know it has a weird name but its a decent enough place." opening up the door he would walk in and hoped that Oboru would enter along with him. 

Ryu would walk down the steps and before long they entered the main room, there was tables and chairs all over the place and there was lots of people there but they was mostly pirates or mercenarys for hire. They was either playing cards or pool but the aura of the area seemed like home. " Hey waiter over here." He took his hand and waved over the waiter who walked over to them and asked them what the wanted. " Give me your sea food pasta dish and some saki please, what would you like Oboru." Ryu would ask the fish man sitting at the table across from him. 

[SnowDog]

Oboro followed the tiger-man into the pirate filled watering hole. Oboro took a moment to take in the sight of such a diverse crowd, one of the most diverse he’s seen during his time in the East Blue. He was pleasantly surprised to see he was able to enter any sort of facility without receiving a dirty look from the store owner or suspicious eyes looking his way, not to mention not being the only fishman in town! A rare occurrence in his case!

The Hammerhead followed Ryu to the table and took a seat across from him, setting the massive wrench slung over his back down beside him to sit more comfortably. Ryu flagged over the waiter and the tiger man wasted no time getting his order in.

“And I’ll have the uhhh... I’ll take the special, and I’ll take a sake as well! A big one, if possible.” He stated as he made a gesture with his hands for a big glass for his drink.

“So you seem to know the place really well.” Oboro asked turning his attention back to Ryu, “Despite the marine base, what’s there around here that’s fun to do?”