The Ultimate Mission

Chapt. 26

***Author's Note: I do not own One Piece, Oda does, I do own the characters I made up in this story (ex: Ivy, Cecily (Shadow), and any other made up characters throughout this story that I might create). Also, please do not copy this story and claim it as your own***

        Chapt. 26: Our Flag, The Two Bounty Hunters, and The Game

        "You maggots, would attack the pirates known as Captain Ussop of the Going Mary" Ussop taunted to an imaginary enemy, turning towards us with sweatdrops upon seeing us quietly doing our own things (Nami was reading the newspaper, Zoro was sleeping...again, Luffy was painting on something...it had better not be the ship, and I was writing our lasted adventure down in our logbook, while printing out the pictures we took from the transponder snail and petting Shadow, who was resting on my lap, she was still recovering, but she's getting better I'd say by the time we get to Arlong Park, she should be back to fighting shape), "I thought you guys would be more energetic then this."

"We usually are," I smirked walking over to the transponder snail that was printing the pictures out, hitting Ussop on the head with the logbook as I walked by, "Today is just one of those days."

"I'm done drawing our pirate mark!," Luffy grinned holding up a flag with a poorly drawn Straw Hat...at least I think it's supposed to be a straw hat, on it, "I figured it's about time we get our own pirate flag."

"I can't say anything considering Luffy draws better than I can," I sighed depressed, a sweatdrop on my head, "But what do you guys think?"

"HOW CAN ANYONE DRAW WORSE THAN THAT?!" Nami screeched pointing to Luffy's flag, only to have her jaw hit the ground when I held up an even worse drawing of a Straw Hat, "HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE!"

"HAHAHAHA!," Zoro roared with laughter upon seeing my Straw Hat drawing, "AT LEAST WE CAN ACTUALLY TELL IT'S A STRAW HAT WITH LUFFY'S, BUT YOURS IS...JUST SAD HAHAHA!"

"How can you take such professional pictures," Ussop snorted with laughter after his eyes coming out of their sockets upon seeing my drawing, "Yet epically suck at drawing?" (***AN: Another true fact, I can't draw worth dog crap, but I somehow am able to take really amazing pictures and if someone traces the outline of a picture I print off of google and gives me oil pastels, I can get the colors super close to what the picture originally looked like...don't why I can do those two things extremely well and not be able to trace or draw something, but I can****)

"Don't know," I stated shrugging my shoulders in a dismissive manner, "I've always been like that, I blame my parents for giving me such amazing artistic talent."

"Now I know why there isn't any drawings in the logbook," Zoro smirked, sitting down next to Luffy's flag, "And why she takes pictures all the time, cause she can't draw the things we've seen into our logbook."

"You don't seem bothered by people making fun of you for that," Nami pointed out raising an eyebrow over at me (I was grabbing the pictures and tapping them into the logbook), "Actually now that I think about it, you hardly ever get mad at your friends for teasing you about different things about yourself."

"Why should I be upset?" I countered dismissing with a shrug of my shoulders, taping more pictures in the logbooks, "It is what is, it's not like I can change what I can't do by getting mad at someone for pointing it out."

"That's her motto," Shadow smirked walking onto the deck, and sitting on my feet, "Don't let people get under your skin and laugh it off."

"Move aside and let the real artist through," Ussop bragged grabbing the paints and a new flag, bending down and holding up a flag with a suspiciously looking long-nosed liar on the flag, Ussop's nose stuck high in the air, "Behold, a priceless work of pirate art."