Book Two: You're my Treasure Too (Zoro X OC)

Chapter Eleven ~ The Starfish Pappagu

"Brook!" Luffy, Usopp and Nicole greeted the familiar skeletal man "Brook-chin!" Camie also greeted.

"Oh, Luffy-san, Usopp-san and Nicole-san, and it's been a while Camie-san, could i look at your panties" the skeletal man greeted in return before Pappagu the starfish hit him.

"She's a mermaid" Pappagu said before also greeting the others "Straw! Nose! Eyes! I missed you guys, i didn't know that you were here" he said.

"Long time no see" Luffy said greeting the starfish back as he jumped into his hands.

"So you were with Pappagu" Usopp said.

"Yes, i didn't expect to be rescued by Pappagu-san, i was so lucky" Brook said before laughing a bit.

"Yeah, that was just as surprising to me, while i was polishing off an idea for a new design at the cove, i saw some bones drifting on a log towards me" Pappagu explained.

"Soul King, come see us again" one mermaid hanging on the skeletal man's side said and kissed his boney cheek.

"I had a wonderful time" the other mermaid said kissing Brook's other cheek.

"I'll be back, beautiful mermaids" Brook said.

"What?!" Usopp exclaimed in shock and surprise.

"I'm going boneless!" Brook said before falling into a pile of bones and then reassembling himself as he stood up "Oh i can't exist without bones, oh i don't care if i die now, oh no i'm already dead!" he said and the others sweatdropped.

"He certainly got more lively" Nicole muttered.

"Yeah i wonder what's going on inside" Luffy said.

"Wait, wait, wait, you aren't leaving today are you? I know you are interested in the café but you can come back with everybody later, i was gonna take Bone to my house now, come with me, do you like sea monster meat?" Pappagu asked getting out of Luffy's hold.

"Do you have meat?" Luffy asked squatting down to the starfish's level.

"I'm wild, i don't wanna eat seaweed or shellfish, what i mainly eat is violent sea monsters!" Pappagu said.

"Oh Pappagu, i almost forgot, here are your clams for today" Camie said offering a clam to the starfish.

"Wow! Camie's clams are the best!" Pappagu cheered.

"So you do eat clams!" Usopp said hitting the starfish's back.

"Damn" Luffy sighed slumping down.

"There there" Nicole said patting his back "Maybe once we meet up with the others we can go fishing for sea kings, make an adventure out of it" she said.

"Really?!" Luffy asked, literally bouncing back up, as he drooled.

"Sure" Nicole smiled.

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"Unlike Merfolk, Fish-Men eat meat and fish, so it's not like we don't have them here" Pappagu said.

"Oh, glad to hear that!" Luffy cheered.

"Oh, just what i was looking for, hey taxi!" Pappagu called the floating fish taxi over and everybody climbed on board, as Brook was coming aboard though he spotted something.

"What? Vander Decken! He's a ghost, why are they looking for him?" the skeletal man asked looking at a poster warning about the supposed ghost.

"Oh, this guy was on the ghost ship that we saw?" Usopp asked.

"What? Did you guys see him?" Pappagu asked.

"Yes" Brook said.

"The whole nation has been looking for him for years! He's a pirate, an undersea bandit, i'll tell you about it later, get on first" Pappagu said and everyone climbed on board the taxi before the floating fish took off.