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[delsha]

Gaius Delgado reclined on his favorite lawn chair. A balmy south blue breeze blew across the deck of the ship and gently awoke the young pirate captain. He himself up, stretched, then walked over to the port side of the ship. He leaned against the railing of the ship and stared out across the vast ocean. He yawned then smiled to himself. Things where going pretty well for the Delgado's. They had just managed to defeat a large number of marines back on Cinna. Sure it wasn't much but it was enough. One had to learn to enjoy the smaller things in life.

He was pretty bored. Nothing mcuh was going on on the ship. The rest of the crew was about the ship somewhere doing stuff. But he as the captain had little to do. He sighed. Just then a small stack of papers droped from the sky. They hit him on the head. He was surprised. Being the oblivious guy he was he didn't notice the papers. What he did notice was the black bird over head. He was furrios at the fact that he was being attacked by birds. He spent a good hour or so trying to catch the bird, who seemed to enjoy his futile tries to catch it. Eventually the bird got tired and flew off. "Great. Wait? What's this?"

He looked through the papers. There was a news paper, some wanted posters and a letter. He paid no mind to the news but looked through the posters. He was disipotinted that he wasn't in there, but that was till he came across the poster for one "Heavy Death Haseo. Gaius was pretty surprised to see that. Then he moved to the letter, it was addressed to him. He read it. He smiled. Yep one had to enjoy the small things, like messages from old friends.

It had been a while ago when Gaius Delgado met Haseo Suzuki. It must have been a year now. When they first met it was six years ago and Gaius was still serving as a cabin boy for the Draco pirates, the crew that had rescued him, when they pulled into port at Haseos home island. Haseo was staying at this inn with his mother if he recalled correctly. He was real interested in the pirates because his father was one so he spent a lot of time hanging around the ship. Gaius and Haseo became quick friends during the month or two that the Draco Pirates had docked there.

They met up again in a bar on a island whose name he couldn't remember. They where both starting out as pirates themselves. He really can't remember much of what happened just that they destroyed the bar and got run out of town. The two parted ways a few days later.

Gaius shook his head. That WAS a year ago and here he was sailing to meet his old friend who had made a name for himself, unlike Gaius.

In the letter Haseo told him to meet him at Reverse Mountain.
The letter would have sounded urgent to the normal person, but to Gaius it sounded like.... well.... very relaxed. Anyway he called his nakama up to the main deck and explained to them the situation. Hopefully they would all be agreeable with the idea.

[Kurosaki]

Things had gotten complicated for Hayate. The biggest part of all of that complication had been running into an old "friend" of his during his time being in the Marines. If things weren't bad enough already that he had blown his older cover ID, now word was surely going to spread that "Shizuka" had betrayed the World Government. Worst of all, they would know that he was working specifically for the Delgado Pirates soon enough if they did their investigations properly. After that if one his "nakama" happened to slip his real name things would be hell for him.

Part of Hayate's whole identity was just that: changing his identity. The more people that knew about who he was the less he was able to do that. Therefore, the more of himself that was literally stripped away.

Hayate ran a hand through his blond hair and let out a slow sigh to relieve some of the tension that had been building in himself. The best thing right now would probably be to confront that issue head on. The bad part about that? Often times Hayate would ditch situations like these in a heart beat and come up with a new identity. He slipped toward the side of the ship while no one was looking and thought about taking the emergency raft and making a run for it.

Or he could actually give this a shot for once. One person really knowing who he was really had been what he had wanted all along. If there happened to be more than one, what was so bad about that?

However, those were the close people. Hayate thought about it and decided he'd have to tell his nakama to go along with his undercover IDs whenever they landed on new islands. Besides, it would make their crew look ten times the size that it really was if different names cropped up all over the place, right?

Something interrupted his thoughts and Hayate realized Gaius was calling everyone to where he was on the main deck. Deciding to find out for himself what was going on, Hayate casually strolled over to join everyone else.

(Sorry for the boring posttttttttt!)

[lukas]

Sitting in the kitchen washing some of the dishes, Lukas had been even more silent then usual, pouting over the mistake the crew had done back at Cinna island. Granted, it was really his fault for heading out on the island and trading some of his lesser stuff for some more candy ingredents for Taffy.

With a sigh, Lukas put the last dirty glass to the side and made a quick look over the food and ingredents that they had. He continued searching over the food for a bit longer before walking out of the kitchen, a few pieces of candy in his pocket incase Taffy tried to jump him for some sweets.

Beginning his climb back up to the top of the crow's nest, Lukas stopped for a moment, watching as Gaius ran around trying to catch a bird. After a few moments Lukas was suprised that the bird was still playing with Gaius, and he laughed softly to himself before he watched the bird fly off.

As the captain began to look through the papers, Lukas walked over and took the paper, looking through it without much care. Trying to see if they had any articles on rare trade items, and after a few minutes of fruitless searching, Lukas looked up at Gaius once more.

Looking at Gaius as he called people over and explained the situation, and he smiled beneath the bandages and rubbed his chin. "Hmmm... Reverse Mountain... with the Grand Line just beyond that... the oppertunity for trading is just as grand as the line... we should do it."

[|The SHAKINATOR|]

Benjamin Leonardo the third was surveying his maps in his part of the ship's quarters. He still wasn't too familiar with how things went as part of a pirate crew but he was getting the gist of things. However he was finding it difficult to fit in. That wasn't because he was a drunkard or the fact that he stunk but because of his bothersome personality problems. Although he didn't know exactly what the others in his crew thought of him but he felt out of place when they would catch him talking to himself. Xero obviously would butt into any conversation he felt like and would often leave Ben arguing with himself and looking stupid in front of his new nakama or their new nakama as Xero would correct him. The truth was, he needed Xero as much as Xero needed him but sometimes it became such an obstacle in his social life.

It was then that he noticed everybody heading for the deck where Gaius was making some sort of announcement regarding their next destination. This would be important to Benjamin as this would be the first mission for him as Navigator of the Delgado Pirates. He listened intently but his heart sped up a gear or two at hearing the words Reverse Mountain. This would be a challenging test for any navigator in the world but Ben was pretty sure he could handle it, he just had to keep his nerve through the intoxication he would probably be under. "Reverse Mountain Eh? This should be interesting... Headed for the grand-line are we?" Xero coarse voice sounded through Ben's body as he questioned his other half.

"It seems so... Now I need to prepare for this expedition so stay out of my way for the next few days." Ben replied, speaking as quietly as possible so that nobody else could catch him out.

[salva]

Susano breathed in deep, then exhaled. He drew his sword faster than the eye could see and now a second later he had it in it's sheath. He was working on a new technique, something to deal with his lack of long range capabilities. He was surprised that their ship had a small dojo in it's lower decks. It was good though since he needed practice. He moved to start meditating when he heard Gaius calling the crew. He sighed. Meditation would have to wait.

He reached the top deck. Gaius was talking about heading to reverse mountain. He cringed slightly. Reverse Mountain meant the Red Line. The scars that he had from his year on that cursed continent ached a little. He had sworn to never lay foot on that land ever again. But... then again these guys where his new nakama so he supposed he could deal with it.

Gaius told them the plan, then asked what the crew thought. He shrugged. "Eh... I'm cool with it. Just don't ask me to get off the ship." He said before giving a weak smile. Few things frightended samurai from Wano, but I guess that made Susano the exception. He started to walk off when a thought crossed his mind. What it this Haseo guy was going to betray them. It lingered in his mind for a few seconds but was quickly ejected. If Gaius trusted him then he would go along with it but might as well be a little weary, just for safeties sake. Besides that guy had a weird way of making good choices.

He was a little tired form his training. He decided to head back to his bunk and take a nap.

[SHADE SMASH]

(IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM SSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYY GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUYS)

For once, Taffy could not be found discovering the ship for all its rooms and sugary treasures, but instead can only be seen laying in her bad groaning and moaning as she rolled this way and that contemplating the happenings at the island they stopped at not to long ago. Just so you know!!! Taffy was not lying the normal way, the ORDINARY way a person would lay in a bed. She laid in this one with her legs hanging off the right side and her head off the left side, basically laying horizontal when the bed required her to be vertical if you could understand it better that way. Anyways, back to our purple headed girl. Her face red and gloomy, I know, whats this? SHE GLOOMY?!?! NOT TAFFY! Sadly though, after having forgotten her particularly awesome, delicious, sugary, scrumptious bag of sweets on the dock, she couldn't face Hayate anymore.

She didn't want to go up to him and break the bad news that she lost his present to her. Groaning, she rolled again to the end of the bed, right back to the head, trying to consider what she could do. Truth be told, upon arriving on this ship, she was super happy but it wasn't until a day into the trip did she suddenly realized her horrible mistake of forgetting such treasure and found a room to call her own to simply be I guess one could say.

Suddenly, Taffy heard the call of her captain asking everyone to come aboard, and with a moan and another roll, she finally decided to jump up! She can't leave her captain alone if he calls for them no matter what happens! Finally, Taffy felt better, the dead taste of grape cherry in her mouth replaced with a new sour apple to get her going to full speed once again and now there was no sad thing to stop her from going to the deck. Her sadness for her candy may not be gone, she still might do a little ceremony for the little guys in case a dog has already ate up their deliciousness, but she will live as long as Luke was here to give her more!

In a frantic, she ran up to the deck, to discover most of the crew was already there, and quickly found a place in front of Gaius near Luke in case she needed candy to replenish her good nature and listened intently with what was said.

"COOL!!!!" Taffy exclaimed when all was done and explained.

[delsha]

ooc: Okay everyone I'm officially going to start rping as both Gaius and Hideki. So be ready for some long post by me.



IC:
GAIUS:

Gaius was pretty satisfied with things. He had a pretty good crew, a ship, and he was doing well as a captain. But still he felt a little worried. The crew needed a decent shipwright and a doctor, along with some none essencial postions. He sighed to himself. It would take at least five days to reach Reverse Mountain according to Ben.

Gaius took to his lawn chair. He always did his best thinking there. After a little bit of thinking he decided not to worry about it till they met up with Haseo at RM. Gaius got up and went to te side of the ship. He barel noticed the small ship coming from the north. When he did he took his binoculars out and looked. There was someone on what looked like a raft.

"Hello." he said to himself with a smirk. He decided to take the ship off course just slightly so that they would intercept the small vessel. When they got close enough he yelled down to the man on the raft.

"Hey! Need a lift?"

HIDEKI:

Hideki was very bored. Very very bored. He has ammused himself slightly by lighting what was left of his dynamite, but that blew up his small boat. Leaving him the slab of wood that he was on now, which was just barely afloat. He needed to find some better transportation and find it quick, because he was starting to sink.

Then as if by some miricale a ship appeared on the horizion, and it was heading toward him. Man he was lucky... unless they where marines. Then he would he would be screwed. Pirates not so much, but marines definatly. After about a half an hour the ship had gotten within shouting range. Then some guy asked him if he could use a lift.

"Yes... yes I could." he replied simply. A rope ladder and came down and he climbed his way up. When he got up he introduced himself. "Hey. Name's Hideki." he said with a smile. He liked pirates, and the guy infront of him seemed pretty decent. "Can I talk to your captain?" being a former pirate himself he figured that it was only right to join up with these guys who had just saved his life. If only temporaraly.

[Kurosaki]

Everyone seemed fine with heading toward Reverse Mountain. Taffy, of course, seemed the most enthusiastic about it. Stuffing his hands into his pockets and surveying each and everyone of the nakama on board the Delgado ship Hayate began to realize he didn't really know any of these people very well. Even the Captain was still a mystery to him. Would things get more involved as they traveled or would Hayate just take his leave whenever he felt like he was at a proper island for his dream?

Deciding that his thoughts could wait till later, Hayate turned toward Taffy. At least he could win her over pretty fast since she seemed to be a rather trusting person.

"So, Daffy, you seem pretty excited about going to Reverse Mountain. You know that the Grand Line is pretty dangerous though, right?" Hayate mentioned pleasantly, not realizing that he had opened up the conversation firstly by messing up her name and ending it by implying that she couldn't handle the tough parts of the journey. This was going to be a really long adventure if she took what he had just said the wrong way.

Hayate waited for her response, wondering what it would be like to act like "himself".

[lukas]

Happy that most of the crew had agreed in making the trip to Reverse Mountain, Lukas looked out in the ocean ahead with a gentle smile hidden by his wrapping. Of course, there was a new devlopment and Lukas didn't feel to happy with how things were turning out. A strange figure had floated on in and now looked up at the ship, and Gaius spoke with him. Lukas watched the exchange before moving back and heading toward the kitchen, taking a look at Hayate speaking to Taffy, mis-speaking Taffy's name almost instantly.

Chuckling softly to himself as he made his way into the ship, Lukas walked in and started to move around on the kitchen. He began to go over the invitory of the ship once more, examing all the different items that they had in the cabinets and fridge. He walked over to a chest that only two members of the crew had keys to and he opened it, looking at the items inside. The cases inside had candies that where all cooked and ready for Taffy to eat while the other side of the case had several raw materials for Taffy. He picked out a few items and with them in hand he went to the stove and begun work on a new candy, hard outside with a gooey center.

[|The SHAKINATOR|]

Benjamin sat at his desk and began pillaging through his sheets of scrap paper and old remains of maps. He also had laminated maps at the side of his desk in good shape but they were lacking a lot of information, stuff he still had to work on. The research he had gathered was pretty good but making sense of it was harder than it seemed and Ben hadn't expected to have to take a look at this as soon as his journey as a pirate started but if this is what it required, he would make sure he would get his new crew over and the reverse mountain and across to the grand line and from then on to the ends of the earth navigating from island to island through the high risks of heavy storms and instant changes in the weather. It was a very difficult task but Ben was confident he could take it on. His only worry was that his other half might make his life very difficult. He could hearing talking in the back of his mind this very instance but was choosing to ignore it.

"What do you think? If you're gonna ignore me, then I don't exist? Listen to me Benjamin Leonardo the Third. Going to the grandline is like going to your own death. Why are you going to bother with this, lets back to scamming the guys at card games and living life with a bottle of rum in your right hand and a pretty girl in your left..." Xero tried to manipulate Benjamin to quit before his journey had even started for he knew that once they went along with this, there was no turning back.

"I remember the rum for I was the one who had to deal with the hangover headaches every morning of every day of every bloody week. As for the girls, I don't remember a single one. I didn't bother with my looks for that very reason, so nobody would want to come near us and give you the satisfaction." Ben spoke in a harsh tone before dipping his quill into the ink-pot and wrote some notes on a blank piece of parchment. It was then when he noticed someone enter the room.

[salva]

Susano tried to navigate the ship but he was having a little bit of trouble. First he wound up in the galley, then the storage room, then the dojo. He was starting to get frustrated. All he wanted to do was take a nap. A nap! Was that to much to ask for?

Anyway, when he was done mind screaming at nonexistent people, he decided to take another door. He was really hoping that it was the mens dormitory. It wasn't. He walked into the room. It was a little dark. There was a person in the back toward a desk. Susano squinted. It looked like Ben.

"Hey Ben.... mind if I open the shades? A little dark in here ya know?" He said before moving to open the shades that hung over the rooms three cirular windows. He then sulmped into a seat and looked out toward the sea. He sighed.

"Ya know Ben... I really hate the Redline. I mean I won't bore you with my stories but I saw some nasty things up there." He stopped talking for a second and thought. 'Ya know, Ben I'm here talking about myself but I realise that I don't know jack squat about you." Susano was pretty bored so he figured that getting to know his crewmate might kill some time. "Tell me about your self."

[SHADE SMASH]

Taffy felt like jumping into the air that very moment, and zooming around the deck with her hands outstretched like a bird, just so she could release all that excitement and energy that so enthralled her inside!!!! But she didn't, instead she stood there, shaking like a leaf, because of all that pent up energy inside her, just grinning like a mad maniac. Her eyes were closed, as pictures entailing her of their uber adventures along their journey, through thick and thin!

She practically jumped, however, when Hayate suddenly appeared beside her from, well, she didn't quite recall where he was but she surely thought Lukas was the one beside her. Speaking of which where was he!!!!! In a sort of civil frantic, she looked around in search of her favorite candy chef, tiptoeing to see if it would give her a possible greater perspective over the deck. Though, just before she was quite able to spot the crew member, Hayate spoke, and she whirled around on him!

"TA-ffy! NOT DA-ffy!" She loudly replied hoping that her booming voice would get through to his thick head and that he would start remembering her name. She said her names maybe 3 more times in hopes it would stick before standing there, brimming with happiness! She was sure if she did this more often, he was definitely going to recall her name for millenniums to come!

"Of course I know its dangerous, DUH! Every seagirl has got to know that!" She replied, rolling her eyes like the question was the most moronic one she has ever heard in her life. "But thats what makes it fun!" She cried out before turning her head to see a possible new crew member!

She instantly ran up to him and beamed a smile at him as she stood beside the captain, rocking on her feet unable to control her excitement.

"HIIIIIIIIII!" She practically squeeled in excitement. "Are you going to join the crew? Did you already join the crew? Who are you??? Where did you come from? SENCHOU WHO IS HE??" She exclaimed piling question upon question before at last turning to Gaius in search of her answers since Hideki didnt reply, of course because she didnt give him time to.

[delsha]

GAIUS:

Gaius had expected the guy to be less grateful for some reason. Ah well it really didn't matter. he helped the guy up and onto the ship.

"Can I speak to your Captain?"

Gaius laughed chuckled a little. "I am the captain man." patted the guy on the shoulder. " And these, myself included are the Delgado Pirates." he pointed toward Hayate and Taffy. "Erm.... well there are more of us their just below deck." he said. He was about to say something else but he was cut short by Taffy, who happened to slam him out of the way and into one of the railing. "Ow." he said quietly.

"SENCHOU WHO IS HE??"

Taffy finally finished talking and turned to him to ask him that. He sighed " Taf this is.... um hopefully our new crew member, I never did catch your name... anyway hopefully our new crew member this is Taffy our first mate."


HIDEKI:

Hideki was slightly taken aback by the extremely hyper girl who had just knocked the Captain into the railing. She started talking. And she then she talked some more. Let's face it there where a lot of words coming out of her mouth at once. She finally stopped then turned to the captain and started talking to him. This time she just used one sentence. The captain then started talking to him and in the process introduced the girl as Taffy the ships first mate.
"Are you going to join the crew? Did you already join the crew? Who are you??? Where did you come from?

Hideki was abit confused but he shook it off. He then took to answering Taffy's questions as best he could.

"OK Taffy right? To answer your questions, in order, yes, no Hideki Faust and North Blue."

Since he already said he was going to join he figured to just get a few more things out the way.

"Let's see what else. I'm a doctor, chemist, and inventor. I like sushi. Annnnnnd..... I have a thing for explosives. I think that just about clears everything." he said.

Hideki thought that his introduction just about "blew" them away. Then he looked over toward the guy standing near the mast.

He recognized the guy. He was one of the marines who had put him away for two years back when he was a pirate captain. "YOU!" he said with a evil look on his face. He ran over to the guy and put both his hands on his shoulders. "Well isn't this a pleasant surprise. Don't worry man I don't hold grudges just thought I might as well get this out the way." he said before nailing Hayate right in the gut. "There now we can be friends."

[Sorry about that Kane just thought it might make things more interesting]

[Kurosaki]

When Hayate finished talking, Taffy immediately corrected him in his incorrect saying of her name. Over and over. Well, he tuned her out completely after the first time and then his eyes kind of clouded over. When was he going to remember? Probably not any time soon.

"Okay, whatever you say Laughy," he responded after a while after she had told him that she knew it was dangerous but that was what made it fun. He raised an eyebrow. Clearly this girl wasn't bothered by anything that normal people would be scared about. At least this journey would be interesting.

"Laughy" then bounded off in the direction of the Captain who had just brough someone onto the ship from a raft. The man looked slightly familar and Hayate at first couldn't place where he had seen him. Then it hit him.

"Oh god," he mumbled before walking over. He hoped that the man wouldn't recognize him. Most likely Gaius would introduce him under his right name and not his Marine one so things should be fine... Right?

Wrong.

The man ran over to him and put his hands on Hayate's shoulders. Hayate glared at him, wondering what he was planning. He told him that he wouldn't hold grudges but he had to get something out of the way. The blow to his stomach sent Hayate to the ground on one knee, coughing a little bit and at a loss for air.

"Yeah, we'll be... Best friends forever now..." Hayate said sarcastically from his painful position before he staggered back up to his feet. For a moment Hayate wondered if he should tell the man he had the wrong guy. Though if he was friends with Gaius that lie wouldn't go very far. "Look, sorry about that. I was just doing my job back then."

[lukas]

With the hot stove in front of him, candy syrup cooking, boiling a bit in one of the pots, Lukas sturred it a bit before moving back over to a bowl. Within the bowl he had mixed sugar, a bit of watermelon flavoring, and some heavy cream. Mixing it quickly with the wisk, Lukas pulled out a pan he had with half circle indents, about 20 of them. It was a pan used for cooking takoyaki, but it was perfect for making circular treats as well. Pouring in a bit of candy syrup into each indents put a small, well greased metal ball in each of the indent, filling it halfway.

With that done, Lukas allowed the half circles to cool off some while he looked at the wisked cream filling, putting the metal bowl on the oven a bit, warming it up and melting it a bit as he put a single cube of carmel in and mixed it in nicely. A few moments longer, he took it off again and placed it on the side and pulled out each metal ball from the half circle candy syrup, filled half of them and then placed the rest onto the filled halves, making 10 orbs of watermelon cream-filled sweets for Taffy. Putting these to the side, Lukas allowed them to cool off.

Lukas repeated this two more times before finally wrapping all 30 up into small plastic wraps. Each one was about the size of a quater and they each where perfect. Granted, this was the first time he had made these, Lukas wanted to test them out on Taffy soon, to see if she enjoyed them. With his pans washed and put away, Lukas took a few of them and walked back up onto deck and offered one to Taffy. "These are new... try one Taffy." Lukas said softly.