Rewrite of 'A Siren's Journey'
Taking to the seas far earlier than most, a young child of 'D' is set on a path that will not only change her own destiny but those she comes across in her adventures. Going through many trials and tribulations, she of...
🏴☠️️Ch.4: How Ula Met Luffy! The Crystal and Straw Hat's New Holders!🏴☠️️
With Shells Town at their stern ends, the Wayfind Crew and the newly formed Straw Hat Crew set sail for wherever the waves take them.
In the brief few hours since their departure, Zoro is awed by Ula's ship, having had to sail alongside the Puakai for dropping off the supplies purchased from Shells Town and allow Ula the privacy to bathe and change out of her battle-dirtied clothes into a new outfit and new hairstyle. The swordsman is equally awed by the massive dragon-class sea king and the cleaned-up Ula.
She now has her hair in a long braid and wears high-waisted navy-blue shorts underneath a white sleeveless kimono-like top, with a brown, blue and orange-striped sash wrapped around the waist just below her bust. Navy-blue fingerless gloves cover her hands and she wears a single three-shade of blue stocking on her right leg, while a simple band decorates her left. On her feet are a pair of brown boots and a pair of blue goggles with orange lenses sits on top of her bangs. Her ears are pierced with golden seashell earrings, decorated by mint green sea glass and an ombre blue beaded necklace hangs loosely from her lovely neck.
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"Is it too late to join up with you instead, Ula?" The swordsman asked.
Ula giggled. "Sorry, Zoro, but Luffy was first and I respect his decision. And besides, it's not like we're not gonna be seeing each other on our journey as pirates together."
To which Zoro sulked in response.
"But you're more than welcome to come aboard and spar with me, whenever."
The swordsman perked up at that.
Unfortunately, within the same span of a few hours, Luffy had gone through all of his share of the crew rations she purchased. He even tried to sneak aboard Ocean's Compass to get into her kitchen's storeroom and Carme's deck garden. But Ula made good on her promise to have Tito deal with him should he decide to go back on his word and nit keep his sticky hands to himself. She cares for Luffy a great deal, but even she has a limit to how much patience she has for him. She's had to lock down the Ocean's Compass's storeroom and kitchen cabinets as well as the kitchenette-console and her livewell-storage bench on the Puakai.
'I swear, not even my appetite is this bad. Sure, we eat just as much as one another, but at least I have my courtesies.' Ula winces, looking over and down her starboard bulwark at Luffy's flopped out form in his small dinghy, having been flailed about in Tito's not so gentle jaws like a dog with a new toy before being spat out back onto his own boat with Zoro laughing at the boy's misfortune.
"You've got no one to blame but yourself, Luffy." She calls down. "It's called moderation and it's necessary for journeys at sea."
"How come I can't have just a little bit of your food, Ula?" Luffy whines.
