A Pirate's Heart (One Piece fanfic) [EDITING]

24:: Road to Glory, the Victory Celebration and That Run-Away

The song to the right is the one your looking for. It's highly suggestiable that you listen to it. also, the vid has a basic idea of what the dancers dresses look like, with a pic of Princess Amaya and Tsukiakari

The next day they didn’t send someone or many someone’s for us, but something.

“Whoa that’s so cool!” Luffy jumped up and down in joy at the sight of our carriage.

“That’s awesome!” Usopp exclaimed

“He says ‘My name is Moniji and I’m here to bring you back. The Marines are gone and now it’s my duty to bring you back.’” Chopper translated.

“He~he . . . he said duty.” I chuckled.

“’Hop on’,” Chopper translated.

“How?” Nami asked.

It was a huge animal about the size of the Going Merry, a cross between a mammoth and a turtle with eight legs. It had a long trunk with small eyes and ears, fuzzy brown fur that looks course to touch covered its entire being. Eight sturdy legs in all with weird tentacle-like feelers atop the joint that had a thin layer of fur on it. On its wide back was a large green and brown shell with eight seats attached to it, all facing at an angle where they face out and forward. A long furry tail thumped heavily against the ground as its glittering eyes were fixed on us.

“He says ‘grab onto a feeler and don’t let go until your safe on top’.”

We did so. It was  a strange feeling, soft yet slimy. Like the marimos but dry. He lifted us from the ground with ease and set us on his back with the grace of a crane. From left to right on each row, it was Luffy and Nami, Zoro and I, Sanji and Robin, then Usopp and Chopper. He slowly turned around and went back up the road at the speed of a wandering elephant.

“’Let me tell you, my friends back at the villages are very happy to be released,’” Chopper translated, “’I’m not going to spoil anything, but yes, there will be a party.’”

“What are you?” Luffy asked, tugging on a tuft of coarse fur.

“’I’m a rare animal species known as Kemono. We were originally as common as a crow back in the Jurassic, but most came extinct after the last Ice Age. We live only on this island, keeping to ourselves. When the humans came along, we were taken in a treated wholly. We are now their main source of transportation for Tomoni.’” Moniji, well Chopper, explained.

“That’s interesting. I would love to look into more of your islands exotic history.” Robin mused.

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It was a dreadfully slow ride to our destination, but smooth and cheerful. I had no beef with the whole thing, besides the fact this guy went 5 miles per hour, but other than that Moniji was a pretty cool guy, er- Kemono. He’s pretty chill with whatever and was totally okay with the fact we were heartless pirates who were out for blood. I even asked if he was cool with me being a rapist, he said he was okay with that as long as I didn’t do anything to him.

We reached a cave entrance about two hours later, our butts hurting considerably. It was a wide gaping mouth that led to darkness, the road we found and had traveled on for the past half hour disappeared right into the Pumice rock mountain.

“’This is it,’” Moniji (Chopper) said.

“Okay thanks!” Luffy prepared to get off but a feeler came around and held him on.

“’Whoa whoa! I’m taking you through! This is the best route for you to take!’” Chopper translated

We entered the large rock, instantly making me feel uneasy.