"Ocean blue eyes looking in mine, I feel like I might sink and drown and die."
A simple girl, daughter of a pirate captain, meets the future "King of the Pirates" and begrudgingly decides to join him on his adventure to find the One Piece.
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Everything that Artemisia was seeing before her was insane. Multiple different spotlights flitted around the room, trying to showcase all that was going on. Lights of many different colors blinded Artemisia. There were many different people doing all kinds of different performances. It was hard to keep up with all that was going on. There was an audience as well, clapping loudly and cheering. However, if you looked closer, you could see looks of terror and tear tracks.
Just what the hell was going on? The answer didn't come to mind at all for Artemisia. She was too distracted by the sudden clapping that picked up beside her. She looked over to see that Luffy joined the audience in their applause. It was clear to Artemisia that he hadn't noticed the clear fear and despair of the audience members. Once Nami noticed the clapping coming from Luffy, she reached over and pushed his hands down to stop him.
Not long after that, a voice sounded from one of the many entrances of the huge tent that the group found themselves in. The voice was masculine, though it was more higher in pitch, and had a bit of rasp in it, "No. No, no, no, no. Stop clapping!" Slowly, the applause began to die down. People turned in the direction of the voice. Walking out into the open was a man with clown makeup on. He had the typical pirate hat with blue feathers falling from either side. He wore white gloves and a red coat with fluffy white trim. While he had a permanent smile painted onto his face, his expression showed everything but happiness, "No, stop! It's all wrong!"
All clapping ceased at the man's loud, booming voice. That was all it took for Artemisia to figure out that this man was the one in charge. There was one thing that confused her. This was obviously a circus. Artemisia leaned over close to Luffy so she could ask him in a hushed tone, "I thought you said pirates kidnapped us."
"We were." Luffy didn't try to lower his voice, making her shoot a sharp glare at him. There was a reason she was speaking so quietly. She didn't want anyone to hear them conversing. She had a feeling that the clown guy would tear them a new one if they were talking when he just told everything to stop literally everything.
Speaking of the said clown, he was studying all of the performers. The look on his face showed that he was not happy with whatever they were doing. His words spoke even louder than his expressions, "The spotlight was late. You completely missed my entrance," The spotlight was currently trained on a man who wore a poorly put-together white lion costume. The clown gestured to the man-lion and himself, showing that the spotlight wasn't on him. Upon hearing this, the spotlight shifted over to the correct position. Shining directly on the clown, "And where, oh, where," The clown slowly advanced toward the man in the lion suit, "Was the dancing lion?"
