One Piece: A Tale Of Two

chapter 2

CHAPTER 2: THEY CALL HIM "STRAW HAT LUFFY"

       An uncharted island.

     A ship with hearts on the sails and a sideways skull with a heart as its brain, floats in the middle of the sea next to an island.

"Why is there dust on my bulwark?" A deep woman's voice asks.

"A thousand pardons, Lady Alvida!! I thought I'd cleaned every inch of this ship!!!" A pirate says, desperately. "I'll clean everything all over again! Please--!"

"...'Please' what?" She asks in a stern voice.

"Please, not the iron mace!! I- I DON'T WANNA DIE!!!" Those were the last words from the pirate.

"Koby! WHO is the FARIEST throughout all the seas?" The woman asks in a terrifying way. "Ahem... Heh heh... why you are... Lady Alvida!! No one compares to you!!" A petit boy with pink hair and purple glasses, Koby, answers her.

"Correct!! Which is why I will not tolerate anything dirty!! The ship I sail in must be as clean and beautiful as I am understand?" She then turns to be in front of Kolby. "Remember, Koby, were it not for your vast knowledge of the seas, I would feed you to the sharks! But don't push your luck!" She says, stepping forward, making Koby go down on his knees.

"Y-Yes... That's very kind of you." He shivers as he speaks.

"Other than that, you're worthless! Here, shine my shoes!!" She swings her feet in front of him, Koby flinches while grabbing a rag. "Y-Yes, Lady Alvida! Right away!"

"I don't want to see even one speck of dust in this ship!!!"

     THE LADY

       PIRATE

   IRON MACE

       ALVIDA

"AYE AYE!"

     Iron Mace Alvida, a tall and chubby woman, always wearing a hat covering her black curly hair. Long red nails and a big metal bat always on her hands.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!! YOU'RE PATHETIC!!" Alvida screams, kicking at Kolby, making him fall on his back. "Heh heh heh... sorry..." He says, sweating in fear.

"If you've got time to grovel, then you've got time to scrub the toilet!!" She says, pointing at him with her bat in a threatening way.

"Heh heh... Yes, milady! Right away." He says smiling, blood coming out of his nose and mouth, eyeglasses shattered.

"... Right away..." He whispers while walking away.

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       Back at land.

"What's that Koby? Did a barrel of rum wash up on the beach?" A pirate asks looking at him from the inside of a room near shore as he rolls the barrel towards them.

"Y-Yeah, and it's not empty! I wasn't sure what to do with it..." Koby says.

"Well I know what to do with it! Let's drink it all up!"

"But if the captain finds out, she'll have out heads!"

"She'll never find out!"

     The pirates debate about it while Koby sets the barrel straight, inside the room.

"We're the only ones here. Just Koby and the three of us know about this."

"I guess you're right. And you ain't seen nothin', right Koby?" One of the pirates approaches him, intimidating him.