From Strange Places They Come

Food! Glorious Food!

It's been a few days since we sailed out on the Going Merry, and boy has it been an eventful few days. One thing I've got to get used to with these people, is there is no quite. Absolutely none. You would think it all be Luffy too, but I think Nami is just as loud with her nagging and yelling of complaints of Luffy's stupidity. During the few days, I've had to catch way too many fish because our Captain is a bottomless pit. I'm at the point of dubbing over from exhaustion before he says he's good. It's really annoying. I'm here for a reason though, plus, they're not all bad. Zoro's quite and Usopp's amusing. Hearing movement behind me I turn to see Luffy with some fabric and paint.

"With 5 members, I think we'e officially a crew. Here's our Jolly Roger!" He announced, grinning as he held up what looks to be the worst skull and crossbones combination I've ever seen. The others look equally as horrified.

"You call that a pirate flag!!" Usopp grabbed the fabric and paint and starts painting over Luffy's painting. A few minutes later we hear a "Ta-Dah!" and see Usopp holding what he calls his "Masterpiece" We all blank as Zoro and Luffy hit him over the head. The drawing was of Usopp as a skull, I believe. With a long nose and bandanna. After being hit, he quickly moves to paint more, the finished project being much more presentable. A skull and crossbones with a straw hat, much like Luffy's. These pirates are nothing like the movies I've seen or read about in history books. I guess different worlds mean different things. I've learned what I could form Nami, so I guess I'll learn the rest on my own. So far it's been easy, but things tend to go down hill if I think about them for too long.

"Great, now paint it on the sails too!" Luffy grins. I roll my eyes as Usopp sets out to do just so. I follow.

"Need any help, I'm pretty decent with a paint brush?" I grin at the climbing boy. He grinned back at me.

"Sure!" Climbing up the mast to set next to him was easy, but settling myself on it was another. I don't think I like being so high up in the air on a thing that is constantly swaying. Yep, not at all. So, I might not be that much help. Maybe I can have a  conversation with the long nose! I grin, turning to the boy.

"Soooo, your dad was a pirate?" Well, that was lame, but he looked excited to talk about his dad. On and on he went about what he thought his dad was like. I didn't mind tho, he was just bursting with energy as he talked, and the painting was getting done in no time. He was making the outline while I was coloring it in. Wasn't that hard.

"What about your parents?" Was the last thing I heard out of his mouth. "I've been rambling on for the past fifteenth minutes, but I'm curious now."

"I never knew my birth parents, all I ever knew was my Mentor who was like a mother and a sister to me." He nods, he looks kinda sad for me.

"It's cool though, my parents or whatever, left me in a trashcan when I was around 1 year old. Lucky enough for me, Cassandra, my Mentor, found me around a few minutes later. Her and the rest of The Coven were like my family."

"Coven?"

"Yeah, I'm a witch!" I grin at him. He looked scared outta his mind.

"Witch!! But.. bu- Ahhhaahha" He apparently got so scared, he fell backwards off the mast and knocking the paint off. I quickly grab his arm, wide eyed as I do so. I then notice the paint heading straight for Nami. Rather than die, I focused my wind and caught it before it could spill on her. Sighing in relief, I hold on to Usopp and the can of paint. Honestly, it's not easy. Multitasking is not my specialty.

"Shit, shit. Nami, move!" I yell at her. She looks up with a bewildered expression but quickly moves seeing the paint hovering over. I let that drop as I concentrate on pulling Usopp up. Once he's over the mast, I dangle over myself, out of breath.