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Didn’t think I’d be kidnapped by a mentally challenged seventeen year old and a green haired himbo, sigh life always finds ways to surprise you.
Scrappy was eating and by eating I mean literally trying to eat everything we had. “You can’t just eat everything!?”
“Why not?” Mouth full of food as he spat out his words, my face twitched. I could feel myself stop caring as some of it landed on my face.
“Cause if you eat everything before we get anywhere we’re gonna starve.” Mr. Compensation spoke with a serious yet blank expression. Scrappy huffed until our boat swayed, I held on confused on what was going on until Scrappy got excited and shouted “Fish!! Shishi, so lucky!!”
Mr. compensation smirked and stood up before saying “guess we found lunch, heh.” I sighed as I looked at the giant fish attempting to belly flop on us, “More like lunch found us.”
Dejectedly I found myself making the fish that was about to kill us just moments ago. How I was going to prepare it was a complete mystery in the small boat but nonetheless I tried. It was a new experience for me so it looked kinda bad for my first time but I paid no mind to it and put their food in front of them.
Mr. compensation looked at the fish with suspicion, his eyebrow twitching “is this even edible?” while he complained Scrappy was eating the fish like a starved man as if he hadn’t had some of their reserves just moments before. “If you don’t want it, give it to him.” Jinx tilted her head toward Luffy unfazed as the food in zaun often times had its own unique look.
Luffy perked up at the prospect of more food “Mhmf ‘s real goo’” he said, mouth stuffed with fish as he readied himself to take Zoro’s portion, hand stretching out to take it before he was batted away. Zoro grimaced as he saw Luffy’s stuffed face, cheeks akin to a squirrel with how full they were. “I’ll eat it, but it’d be nice if I had some booze.” He grumbled like he had much choice in the matter but Jinx could really care less.
She tried the fish and shrugged “it‘s not bad” but she’d definitely had better tasting and worse looking food. With that Luffy would be good for a while until he got hungry again.
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He got hungry again. It hadn’t even been that long, at least an hour and here he was moaning about how hungry he was. It didn’t make it better that it seemed his stomach had a mouth of its own, rumbling as loud as an earthquake.
They chatted on their own while she listened to their ruminations about future crew members, the mood of the boat was rather awkward as they did so. Then silence stretched like Luffy until she looked at them and noticed their stares on her person. “What’re the stares for?” Her expression was disconcerted as she awaited their answer.
“Well, what about you?” Luffy asked bluntly but clearly curious, “what about me?” Jinx questioned, clearly confused by the inquiry. “What crew members should we get next? I’m thinking, a chef and a musician!” Luffy cheerily replied before Zoro piped in with his sarcastic nonsense, “how ‘bout a navigator?” he spoke, gesturing his hands to the endless ocean around us.
Jinx silently agreed, after all she hadn't planned to be stuck in some dingy boat with two eccentric weirdos. By the time she zoned back in she quickly regretted it as she saw Luffy swish away with a snap as he soared into the distance while hanging off some bird. She couldn't believe it, “well I guess he’s dead. Rest in peace Scrappy…” she said, closing her palms together in false solemnity till she got jerked by the shaky sway of the boat.
“That's not gonna do anything! Help me out here woman!” he spoke frantically as his arms strained to row the boat in the direction Luffy flew off in. “You look like you're doing fine on your own.” She looked at him with raised brows as Zoro’s face twitched in annoyance about to argue with her until he heard some guys calling for help.
“Dammit at a time like this?! If you need some help, jump in on your own!” he yelled rowing with ferocity, Jinx looked amused with the way the boat would mow through them (it’d be a lie to say she wasn’t even a little excited). They managed to get on though which made her annoyed considering when she nearly kicked one off she got a fierce glare from Zoro. Huffing as she sat by him, one of them pulled out a sword and in turn she gave Zoro an ‘i told you so’ type of look.
The pissed look on his face was the cherry on top as he beat their asses into submission and they started rowing the boat. Jinx however had a smug look on her face as she side eyed Zoro, “don’t even.” he huffed out annoyed by it. The rowers started talking amongst themselves about some guy named Buggy, I mean what kinda name is that anyway? Not to mention he was a freaking clown, she scoffed and figured that he seemed like one of those Zaun overlords that sat back on their ass.
Devil fruit? Like what scrappy was talking about, it made her wonder. “What kind did he eat?” she asked as the three looked between themselves. She got annoyed about to show them a piece of her mind but then Zoro had his thumb resting on his slightly unhilted katana, “she asked you a question.”
She felt a bit better as they scrambled to explain themselves “Captain Buggy ate the chop-chop fruit", “uh-uh a paramecia type devil fruit”, “yeah- can’t be cut at all”. “Pair of what now?” she said bewildered before looking at Zoro, "pfft guess you're useless, hahaha” cackling at the irritation written all over his face.
“A clown that can't be cut huh? Hahh, how convenient” Zoro mused aloud, “what about explosions? Think he can be bombed? Might just go splat! Hahaha” she nudged him with her shoulder while he looked at her. “Dunno, I guess that’s something to try.” At his response Jinx whooped in excitement, burying all that she should truly be feeling.
Shame
Sadness
Pain
Loss
They’d arrived and soon after they got off an explosion resounded through the air along with dust and debris, the rumbling of the ground catching their attention. Zoro questioned it and one of the minions answered dutifully talking about some sort of Buggy ball. “Oou, sounds like my kinda fun.” Jinx smirked like a kid in a candy shop.
The pair walking to the source of the explosion saw an interesting sight, Luffy in a cage, some orange haired girl, a cannon, and a group of people. Zoro swooped in to protect her (what a hero) as Jinx walked to Luffy’s cage, Zoro complained about how Luffy got into this situation but then some red nosed guy had to add his two cents before they faced off and Mr. three swords cut him into pieces. Suspiciously there was no blood at all, so it had to be Buggy of course. Jinx called out to him “hey red nose must be the captain they were talking about!”
Zoro understood instantly and managed to block the hand wielding knife away from him, “dammit what the hell’d you call me!!” his crew riled up by her nose comment, guess he didn't like his nose but to be fair she didn't either. She side stepped the detached hand that came at her in surprise. She figured this guy must really like surprise attacks or underhanded tricks but whatever.
Zoro fended him off while Jinx eyed the cannon moving to flip it in their direction, they didn't realize till Zoro cut Buggy apart and helped tilt it just right as the cannon slammed down. The crew of idiots just stood there astonished while the orange haired girl lit the wick at the end of the cannon. Jinx braced herself for the blast as it went off, the explosion much more amazing up close, a dazed look on her face as she saw it.
“Hey let’s get out of here!” the girl called as she walked off as Jinx looked at Zoro who was apparently carrying a caged Luffy, Jinx sighed as she went to follow him.