❛ NOT A CREW! ❜
₊˚៹ . ❪ episode : ROMANCE DAWN ❫ ˖ ₊˚.⋆
࿐┊ CH. 5┊🏴‍☠️🌊👒

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No way that just happened! She screamed at herself in her mind flustered, still nervously giggling at his glaring expression, but was also very grateful nevertheless. For both the save, and getting to feel his body on hers.

Though before anything more of their little moment could go on, Morgan was back up from Luffy's hit on him and was marching back to the two on the floor, axe aimed up with a furious look.

Zoro pushed himself up from against the wall with a grunt, sending a quick side glance to the still embarrassed girl beside him getting helped up by Luffy, and faced back around to deal with Morgan momentarily.

He charged forward, face set in a serious expression as he rolled out of the way when Morgan swiped his axe down, and easily stood back up switfly. He sliced his katana's at Morgan who deflected, and Zoro fell to the ground in order to avoid being hit, as he used one hand to handstand over the axe.

When Morgan was going to bring down his axe against Zoro's body being knelt on the dirt, (Y/N) quickly acted by outstretching her palms to send a blast of airbending at him, and it sent him toppling back. Using his axe to dig into the ground to stop his fall, he laned in a crouching position as well.

She rubbed a finger across her nose smirking a bit at Morgan's glaring face, adjusting her straw hat on her head, and went to walk up closer to Luffy with Zoro next to him from her spot behind them.

However before she could take another step forward towards the fight, the blunt end of Zoro's blade came swiping out underneath her chin, which caused her to yelp stopping her movements.

Luffy scowled a bit seeing the position the male had his sister in, going to raise his stretchy arms to
do something, but she pressed her palm onto his chest, and made him pause before he could do anything.

She turned her head slightly to Zoro beside her holding the sword, raising her eyebrows as she gave him a nervous stare from under her straw hat. His eyes just sharped meeting her gaze, keeping his weapon grazing her skin before a second longer, before flipping it back away from her seeing Morgan standing up again.

He then ran forward towards him to slide along his knees, hitting the axe with his two swords now, and aimed for Morag's stomach when he was raised back up to stand. Luffy charged at them with a battle cry, one that had (Y/N) sighing from where she stood in her original spot still.

She went to send a blast of wind towards Morgan spotting an opening mid fight, but panicked having had to redirect the hit because of Luffy falling over in the way, which caused her to be thrown against Zoro again, all of them yelling.

The three of them toppled to the ground in a pile of limbs as Luffy rolled over more away from them into the dirt, which left (Y/N) to land pressed against Zoro's chest again. He groaned at the extra weight, lifting his head up to glare a little lesser at her from before, and it caused her to stumble back away off him laughing nervously.

She bumped into her brothers chest mid scrambling back away, him being still squatted on the dusty ground to keep an eye on Morgan right near where Zoro was still knocked to the floor because of their tumble.

A few green strains of his hair were falling over his forehead to mingle with his sweat, staring at the girl with an incredulously look even if they were in the middle of a life or death situation. It didn't stop him from thinking she was clumsy as ever, shown by how he stopped her tripping twice now.

Morgan growled under his breath arriving over where Zoro was on the ground, distractd by the siblings who panicked seeing the Marine raising his axe up to slam into Zoro. And seeing that about to happen, (Y/N) aced hastily.

She manoeuvered her body to lean on one knee against the dirt, slamming her arms up to just past her face, and made the earth beheant Zoro break apart to pull him towards where they were by the rock under him.

The Marine scowled in announce when his axe rammed down on nothing but dust, and snapped his head right to see the trio all together again, away from his hitting range zone as she saved Zoro from getting axed.

His back landed into her ready outstretched arms as she easily caught him, grunting at the impact on her body and heaved him up with Luffy's help from the other side of them by under his armpits.

"It's not only the axe." Zoro grunted out to them both, rough hand grazing her bare one to stabilize himself from her sudden forcefully save, and swallowed to ease his dry throat, "Every part of his body's a weapon."

She hummed in acknowledgement hearing his words, making sure her bag and hat were tied on tightly, before sending a knowing nod to Luffy who tapped her fist against his, "We'll go high. You go low." She somewhat orders Zoro, palm pressing on his chest to get her point across to him.

He turned sharply to her with a look she couldn't place in the very moment, his earrings clinging when he moved as a slowly, and barely even there smirk across his lips that had her faltering her command mode.

Luffy forced himself to stay quiet watching them interaction with a knowing look, not that naive when it came to things about his younger sister. He gives Zoro a determined head nod, which gained a small one back before his eyes were on the girl again.

Zoro grunted lowly at (Y/N) with his arm brushing past hers to walk forward first to stand in front of her, feeling a new sense of an urge to impress. He twirls both of his swords out beside him, before using his left hand to unclip the black bandana around his arms to place that on his head.

He holds one of his katanas by the hilt, flipping the other around so its hilt touched the first one, and held them both in his left hand. Using his right he unclipped his white sword for the holder, and swiftly pulled the out as well to place it in between his teeth, now showing how he really fought with his weapons.

"Oh, woah.... that's so-" (Y/N) mumbled to herself in awe with widened eyes, stopping herself from saying anything more embarrassing, and silently gawked at the defined male in front of her.

Zoro raised his black katana up to Morgan in challenge, flexing his muscles subconsciously knowing she was watching right behind him, and secretly gained more confidence hearing her commentary about him.

Morgan grumbled lowly stomping his way towards the swordsman, axe raised ready to defeat the so called pirate hunter, and met him in the middle of the yard. Zoro span his body down low near the ground, swiping his two swords across Morgan's axe that sent him flying back from the seer force of it.

He lands roughly on his back grunting, and digs his axe into the dirt to help himself lean up as he spots Zoro kneeling on one knee swirling around his swords. Luffy came charging at Morgan next with a punch to the stomach, and it caused the Marine to stumble back off guard before he could attack back.

(Y/N) used Zoro's back to lunch herself up into the air towards Morgan, the swordsman kneeling down purposely to push her body up with his strength, and saw her landing a uppercutting kick to under Morgan's jaw, that was followed by a blast of fire force from her fist.

Morgan's head slammed into the ground with a yell, feeling the burning sensation from her power but actually wasn't on fire surprisingly. He was on his stomach weakly, and tried getting back up to fight, but Zoro was already on his position.

He swiped his weapons at the axe which Morgan just blocked with it, and continued to do so blocking Zoro's slices formed on him. That was until Zoro got the upper hand as he caught the axe in his swords, shoving him down to the ground, and his sword in between his teeth aimed where Morgan's throat was, making the Marine stop his fighting back with his breath hitching.

"Gum Gum Whip!" Spinning around in his spot Luffy streched his leg out with his devil fruit power, kicking Morgan upside the head, and sent him tumbling to the side knocked out completely cold.

For safety measured (Y/N) thrusted her elbows up into the air to make him sink into the rocks brought up a bit, and made his unconscious body stuck in it, but not too bad for someone else to get him out eventually.

Nami retracted her staff in her hand from finishing off the last of the Marines, breathing heavily as she saw what the siblings and Zoro did in disbelief. She placed the weapon back around her belt, and made her way over to the other three gathered around the safe.

"Whoo!" Luffy cheered loudly beside his sister who grinned brightly, both of them raising their arms up in the cheer, and jumped onto each other for a spinning hug out happy laughter.

"Gum Gum Whip?" Zoro repeated the catchphrase in a monotone voice, planting his swords in the ground beside him as he placed the one in his mouth away and stood back up when the siblings reached him.

"Yeah! All the great fighters call out their finishing moves." (Y/N) happily chirped back, bumping her shoulder against his with a cheeky smile thrown up at him, and snickered amused seeing his blank expression.

His dark eyes flickered down to her figure, who reached just above his shoulders if not barely, "No, they don't." He grumbled back rasply, and fiddled with his swords handles.

"Hate to break up this beautiful moment, but we need to get this safe out of here." Nami pointed out trailing over to the trio, as she stopped in front of the safe and glanced around suggesting, "Maybe if we fine some rope or something."

Zoro pressed his palm in the middle of (Y/N)'s back to move her to the side so he could get through, making her tense up started feeling that, and gawked again watching him bend down to the safe.

He wrapped his hands around the safe's door handles, muscles flexing in his arms as he grunts and easily heaves the metal up over his head, not seeming to be fazed up the weight at all.

"Or we can do that." Nami mumbles out her shocked comment seeing him doing that, as they go to follow him carrying the heavy safe over his head and all the way to where her stolen boat was.

While they were running back to the boat with Nami now leading the four of them, sometimes (Y/N) would purposely jog up beside Zoro to admire him lifting up the safe, and how his muscles were flexing in doing so.

And when he did catch her doing it, it made her send him a sweet grin that had him turning away grumbling, and walking faster away from her, to leave her snicker amused to herself knowing she caused that.

Nami made it to the boat first as she jumped over the side of it, and leapt inside to start raising the sails quickly, as they needed to get out of the harbour pronteo to not get caught by the Marines.

Zoro grunted to himself lifting the safe over his head to slam it onto the boat, which made Nami snap her attention to him, and scowled a scolding, "Careful with that!"

"Whatever you say." He grumbled back to her as she was still tying the ropes on the ship, and he dropped the safe again, only a little more further into the deck, "Oh wait. I don't work for you."

The siblings head popped up behind his hunched over figure near the edge of the boat, "I'm sensing a little bit of tension amongst the crew." Luffy remarked looking between them, as his sister rapidly nodded in agreement beside him.

"Not a crew!"

(Y/N) chuckled to herself at their insncy exclaim, leaning back from her spot next to Luffy as she stood at to the post beside the ship, nervously fiddling with her many bracelets around her wrists, and claimed, "We can't leave with our friend."

"Can't wait, princess. The Marines will be here." Zoro dismissed with the nickname flying out of his mouth easily, and placed one of his hands around his black katana on his belt, as he side glanced her.

This seemed to have hit a sudden nerve in her, as she span around quickly to face him with a ticked off expression, and scowled offended, "Princess?! First of all don't call me that and secondly, I don't even look like one, Zoooeee!"

His eye twitched at her teasing of his name, clenching his jaw as he leant an arm against the pillar she was on, and pushed his face closer down to hers, "You have a hat on your head, that's close enough for me." He remarked with an arrogant smirk cross his lips.

She made an frustrated noise, scrunching her nose up at him as she huffed turning away from his smirking self, and crossed her arms over her chest looking around for any signs of Koby.

The other two deadpanned from across the boat watching them go out each other, and despite them all not really knowing one another very well, amused smiles still appeared on Nami's and Luffy's faces.

But he was smiling at his sisters behaviour, already knowing her experience with talking to other males but him was a first for her. And he knew her like the back of her hand, and that's why he normally would become protective over her talking to other males, but he could just sense that Zoro wasn't going to be like that.

The sound of guns cocking fills the air now, and Helmeppo comes out from behind some crates with two pistols in his hands, and the only thing different was that his hair was chopped unevenly, "The Marines are here already. You're under arrest."

Both of the siblings' face were blanky staring at the blonde haired male, before they broke into wide smiles and entered a fit of laugher, "What's wrong with his hair?" She asked pointing at the male, wheezing.

Zoro placed his hand above her head on the pillar to rest his weight against it, and grinned a bit proudly showing off his bright canines, "Yeah, I might've done that."

Sneering at the green haired male, Helmeppo sloppily shoot at Zoro without any aim which had (Y/N) yelping a bit alarmed feeling the wind behind it, and stood up more straight in front of a glaring Zoro.

"I won't let you make a joke of me. I'm taking you in and handing you over to my father." He spits out with venom to the group, before smirking cockily to himself imaging the outcome, "I'll be the hero. I might even get a medal or something."

A fist suddenly collides with the blondes cheek from the side, sending him to the ground. Koby appeared groaning holding his fist, the one that had used his knuckles to hit the snobby Marine, and was now regretting it from the pain he felt in his fist.

"Koby?!" The siblings duo yells out with joyous shock seeing their new friend there, and the fact he had punched a Marine for them, the very thing he wanted to become as that was his dream.

"God, that hurt!" He complained grunting, before looking up from his knuckles and smiled widely proud of himself, "It also felt really good too."

(Y/N) quickly moved from her position in front of Zoro to happily skip over to Koby, wrapping one of her arms around his shoulders, "No time to explain, but we gotta go." She informs while leading him to the boat Nami stole, "This whole island is trying to kill us."

Before he hopped onto the boat with the duo hes grown fond of, he stepped out of her hold to linger by he edge of the transport, and confessed bravely, "I'm not coming with you."

Luffy and his sister share a small look between each other hearing this, pausing their movements walking forward, as he goes to turn back around to their newly friend, "You sure?"

"Before we met, every choice was made for me. But now I'm gonna do what I want to do." Koby began to explain to his friends confidently, and smiled between them gently, "I'm gonna be a Marine. I want to help people that can't help themselves." He takes a step forward, and lowered his voice to a hesitant one, "Next time we meet, we might be enemies."

(Y/N)'s heart felt happy for her timid friend finally wanting to preuse his dream, a warm grin forming across her lips, "But for now..." She carefully pulled off a white and pink bracelet from him to take off her wrist, and handed it to him gently, "we're friends."

He held the handmade creation in his palm delicately, gazing down at it in awe then back up to their grinning faces, which hade him strongly nodding back and slipped on the friendship bracelet she gave him.

Luffy helped his sister back into the boat, holding her by the waist as he gripped onto one of the ropes near the edge of the boat, and both watched Koby push kick off the boat a little for its sail.

Koby gazed through his purple round glasses from the port, seeing Nami raising the last sail, and the four set off from the island. The siblings hang onto ropes now, and wave frantically in goodbye to their new friend, as Koby does the same also and heard the bracelet chime with the movements.

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Somewhere in the East Blue on a island far away, a man stands under a spotlight in a massive red and white tripped tent, that was empty but had another individual up front.

"They were pirates, Captain, just like us. And they got the map." He explains to someone in the shadows nervously, and shuffled in his spot remembering something about a certain straw hat girl, "There was also a young girl, who seemed to have something similar to the long lost devil fruit."

The Captain hummed lowly in thought, and draws out from his explanation lazily, "And you didn't stop them. Nor bother to catch her?"

"I couldn't. I mean there were four of them, and including that girl's power if she's the one." He answered hastily, not taking his gaze off of the figure in the darkness, "They must've been planning this for months."

The spot light snaps off suddenly around the room, and the sun from outside is let in. A man with pale skin littered with messy red mouth paint, blue clown triangles on his eyes that mixed over two cross bones sat on a chair, the one who was in the shadows.

He also had a large red clown nose on him, messy blue piggy tails on the side of him, and had a orange pirate hat on his head.

BUGGY:
WANTED FOR FIFTEEN MILLION BERRY

Leaning on his white gloved fist against the chair, he snatched his wanted poster that appeared in front of him, as he had his leg tossed over the chairs other arm rest, "Well, that's my map, and her power that belongs to me. And I'm gonna get them both back."

He chuckles menacingly behind his teeth with a casually shoulder shrug, "No matter who I have to kill." He swings his legs back to the front of the chair, as he stared at the member of his crew, and the chuckling turned into maniacal laughter.

─►☆ AUTHOR'S NOTE :

finally finished ep 1 omg im DYING this took SO long to write UGHHH like i love that they are long but writing it takes so fricking long LMAOAO😭

i've added some more graphics for this story if you guys wanna go check it out (some im very proud of) but you don't have to don't worry <33

and yes im making that taz fic (thanks liv) and the op anime fic eventually guys EEEHHE probably after this or mid way of this fic though👹

i hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, and pleaseeee don't be ghost readers guys lmk whatcha think 🫶