The Gallant Scorpion:
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The desert sun shined down on a cluster of rocky crags. Rings of smoke were rising from the flat top of the tallest crag which had a cave carved into its side and a tent pitched in it. The top of the crag was incredibly messy and was cluttered with empty bottles and cans of food. The only movement on the crag came from a large ostrich wearing a black battle helmet with goggles on it.
"Caaawww..." the ostrich crowed as it stared off in a distance and saw smoke rising from the middle of a clearing in between a group of boulders that were all half buried in the sand at the bottom of the crag cluster.
The ostrich turned over to the other occupant of the crag top and the source of the smoke rings, a man dozing on a hammock as he blew out the rings of smoke from a corncob pipe. He had tanned skin, scruffy brown hair and a scruffy brown beard and mustache, the man's black bowl-shaped battle helmet which had a red scorpion on the front was tilted down over his eyes. The man wore a short-sleeved red plaid shirt and blue denim overalls that ended in shorts. Coming out from under the red shirt was a black long-sleeved shirt, and out from the denim shorts were dark blue pants.
The ostrich walked over to the man and started pecking him on the head in an attempt to wake him, KONK! KONK! "Caaaaww!"
"Huh?" the man grunted as he lifted his helmet up to reveal his dark reflective sunglasses and a tattoo on his right temple it was of two small hearts with a white arrow going through both of them. "What is it Popo?" The ostrich motioned to the smoke it had noticed. "Smoke!" The man reached down to the stuff cluttered around his hammock and picked up a telescope.
The man stared through the telescope and saw that the smoke was coming from a campfire which had a group of travelers gathered around it. But the man zoned in on the shirtless figure wearing an orange hat and black shorts.
"Is that... the tattoo on his back..." the man focused his telescope on the purple crossbones with the white crescent shaped mustache that adorned the traveler's back. "There's no doubt about it! 'Fire Fist' Ace! He finally showed up! PORTGAS D. ACE! I've been waiting for this day!"
"Poooohhhh..." Popo the ostrich crowed.
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"THIS IS ALL THE BREAKFAST WE GET?" Usopp complained as the Straw Hats and the three Whitebeards sat around the fire in their makeshift campsite. "COME OOON!"
"SEEECOOONDS!" Luffy ordered as he stood tall by the fire and smacked a spoon against a metal bowl. KLANG! KLANG! KLANG!
Luffy and Usopp suddenly found Sanji's feet planted in their face, THWAK! THWAK! "Don't be greedy!" Sanji growled at them. "You've had enough for one meal."
WHUUP! Luffy's rubber arm stretched out and snatched a chunk of meat off of Zoro's plate from where he had been sitting eating quietly with Han.
"LUFFY! WHAT'RE YOU... COME ON!" the swordsman snapped. He got up and glared down at the Captain, "KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF OTHER PEOPLE'S FOOD!"
THWAK! Sanji kicked a still complaining Usopp and knocked him on his back, "THERE ISN'T ANY MORE, OKAY?"
"Why are they like this every time we eat?" Vivi wondered as she and Nami sat on top of one of the round boulders calmly eating their own breakfast.
"Don't make eye contact," Nami advised.
"Like that'll stop Luffy from stealing your food," Y/N said from down at the bottom of the boulder where he sat eating breakfast in between Ollie and Chopper. "Luffy has absolutely no self-restraint. You can either eat all your food before he can steal it or outright stop him from stealing it."
