Lost Princess

Chapter 6

Whitebeard wanted to begin celebrations immediately but was stopped by his adviser, seeing how it was the middle of the day. Marco said it would be easier to get the tattoos done and get the ladies a cabin of their own, then celebrations could happen.

Lupa, Beany and Dusty were brought to the medical bay to have the tattoos done while a cabin was prepped for them, Dusty got her tattoo done in between her shoulder blades, Beany had it on her left shoulder and Lupa got it on her left arm, over top of some peculiar scars, Marco was the one to do Lupa's tattoo, he didn't say anything about the scars, seeing as Lupa gave him a look that said, don't tell. Once the tattoos were done, the ladies were brought to their cabin where all of their items had been neatly placed on the beds, "this is your cabin yoi, it has a private bathroom and space to store your things yoi" Marco told them about the room, just then two men came barging into the room, they looked like the men from before, one with dark black hair, and the other with a blond pompadour, "Marco, you can't keep hogging the ladies," The raven hair man punched Marco in the shoulder, "yeah man at least introduce us!" The funky haired dude grumbled, "fine, fine yoi" Marco sighed, "Ace, Thatch yoi, this is Dusty, Beany and Lupa, the old mans daughter yoi," He pointed to each of the girls, "hello," Beany said kindly, "yo" replied Dusty, "Nice to meet you" Lupa smiled, "nice to meet you as well ladies, it's a breath of fresh air having some more women on board haha" Thatch smiled as he placed his hands on his hips and Ace spoke up, "yeah the nurses get kinda boring after a while," Marco laughed at him, "well, welcome to the Whitebeard pirates, get yourselves ready, cause Pops parties go on for a while heheh, I gotta go make some food for tonight" Thatch pointed a thumb to the door as he got ready to depart "ooh, would you like some help in the kitchen, I haven't done big meals in a while" Beany chipped in happily "sure, the help would be amazing" Thatch said as Beany followed him to the kitchen leaving her sisters with the other two men, "well, we could show you around the ship, eh Marco?" Ace nudged at his friends shoulder, "hmm, sounds like a good idea yoi, you ladies up for that yoi?" the two women looked at eachother and gave a shrug of ok, "yeah I guess seeing how we'll be staying here from now on, we gotta know where everything is haha" Lupa stood from her spot on the bed she claimed and walked over to the door, Dusty followed behind her.

Marco and Ace brought the girls around the ship, showing them each part and it's uses, the public bath for the boys and the bath for the few women in the ship, the kitchen where they stopped to say hi to Thatch and Beany, the storage room which Lupa thought, would be a great place to hide out, and the dining hall, where the girls were introduced to a couple men, who showed much interest in them, they met Jozu, Haruto and Namur, who was an absolutely adorable fish man in Dusty's mind.

Later that evening after the sun began to settle, the four of them returned to the upper deck where whitebeard lifted Lupa onto the armrest of his chair. Thatch and Beany came out with an abundance of food and drink for everyone, but before the party started, whitebeard spoke "To all my loyal sons and daughters here before me, take this into consideration, the child born from a women I loved sitting here next to me, is a great treasure to me and so should be a great treasure to you as well, take care of her" he lifted his drink and the rest of the crew followed, and so the party began.

The girls drank and ate their fill, then drank some more, enjoying the banter and joking that the men around them seemed to delight in, some of the men took interest in the women, to their dismay but they were immediately stopped when Whitebeard let out a warning, "to those who wish to get close to my beloved child and her sisters take this into consideration. you must be worthy of their love and you must be worthy enough to me" his eyes glared at the men around the sisters "you may not touch them unless I approve" luckily, the men around raised their mugs to show the old man that they understood his conditions and rules, though it did not stop them from showing fondness to the women, just a little more on the respectful side this time. The night went on for some time and the sisters pulled away from Lupa and Lupa away from Whitebeards side, though Whitebeard still kept a safe eye on them, he was happy that they were becoming more comfortable and social. Lupa laughed with a couple men before finding herself wondering over to Marco, who sat on the railing of the ship a smoke in one hand and mug in the other, "hey blue bird, could I steal one of them off you?" Marco looked to his side to see Lupa leaning on the railing beside him "blue bird? that's a new one yoi" he chuckled as he pulled a smoke out of the box and passed it to her, "never thought you one to smoke" he watched her strike a match and light it, "yeah, I was kinda out of smokes when you guys found us, and today has been too hectic to actually step aside and have one" she puffed on the smoke and took a drag in, she pushed the smoke back out of her mouth as she exhaled, when she did Marco couldn't help but watch as her thick lips puckered as the smoke breezed out, he quickly looked away and sipped at his mug, "so...how do you fly like that?" Lupa brought up the chase earlier that day, Marco placed the mug next to him and looked to think for a moment "well, I mostly keep as preened as I can yoi, it gives you proper airflow and helps with sharp turns yoi" Lupa stopped to think for a minute "wait....so I need to preen myself?!" she was a little surprised "yeah yoi, what you've never sat and preened yourself?" he raised a brow with the question "no, well, I can only use my form once a day for 2 hours and I rarely use it" she puffed at the smoke again "you can't half shift at all yoi?" at this point Marco had flipped himself around and was leaning with his elbows against the railing "no, never really tried actually, never thought about it" Lupa scratched her head "well, I can teach you, seeing how we're kinda the same yoi...I'll start teaching you tomorrow after you've worked over your hangover yoi" he turned and looked out into the stars around them, "and then, we can go for a fly yoi" he watched the stars and the ocean dance together "promise blue bird?" Lupa looked up at the blond man, blushing as she realized just how attractive he was, "I promise black bird yoi" he smiled down at her.