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“How did we get lost with you here; and after you were bragging so much about your sense of direction.” You chastise as you, Beckman, and Yasopp walk across the island.
“This island has to be weird! There’s no other way I would get turned about like this!” Yasopp angrily replies, trying to look around to no avail. “I can barely see through this fog.”
“That's why I told you two not to go.” Beckman had followed the two of you, who were absolutely adamant on going. If you were going to get yourself in trouble he’d rather be there then leave you to it. Plus, he wanted to take a walk.
“We came here to search for an animal to cook! That’s perfectly reasonable.” You’re also on the defensive, almost bumping into Yasopp when he suddenly stops. You watch as he walks over to a viney wall, pulling the greenery away to reveal a beautiful fogless lagoon. You step inside.
“We can fish here.” Your proclamation has the sniper turn to Beckman.
“See? Not useless.” The older man scoffs and you all explore inside to see conveniently placed rocks that go across the water, though some roughly shaped and all slippery. The sniper hops on one and peers into the water.
“Shit.”
“What?” Beck and you ask and he starts to grumble.
“There’s no fish in here.” At this revelation the first mate looks at you with squinted eyes.
“Not my fault. Lagoons usually have fish.” You hop onto a rock and the first mate sighs.
“I have a bad feeling about this.”
“Why?”
“Why would there be conveniently placed rocks like this?” The three of you start to traverse.
“A boon from Mother Nature.” Yasopp says smugly and he scoffs.
“You overestimate how much you’ve done for Mother Nature that she would do this for you.”
“Hey!” Beck smirks and you all go on.
After a small while of hopping there’s suddenly splashes in the water and you all reach for your weapons. Beautiful women poke their heads out, but you’re all still guarded. Yasopp suddenly flinches, going pale, and your eyes spot a black haired woman with a long nose.
“Yasopp~ Come into the water~” The woman croons and he clenches his jaw. He can’t bring himself to fight her. Beckman tries to aim his weapon at her but the sniper stops him with a hand on his gun. “Don’t be so cruel, just come into the water with me~!” The dreadhead’s breath gets heavier and you smack him on the head to snap him out of it.
“Thanks.” It helped.
“You’re welcome.” Beckman covers the sniper’s eyes and ears as you aim your weapon at the fake Banchina. Her eyes widen.
“Yasopp, help!” She calls out and Beckman covers his ears harder. You aim and attack, but she dodges by going back into the water. She’s gone, but the others remain despite their anxious demeanor. They aren’t affecting you or Beckman, and their attempt at Yasopp only caused violence; the confidence they had at the start is waning when they suddenly dive into the water. They’re gone.
“...Do you want me to carry you?” You offer and Yasopp cracks up.
“Am I a princess? I can still walk.” You’re sincere, which is the funny thing to him. “Thanks for offering though.” That lightened the mood. “I’m surprised Beck didn’t lunge at them the moment they came out of the water.”
“I’m a man, not a dog in rut.”
“Can’t tell the difference sometimes.” You all go back to talking happily until there’s another splash. The dreadhead’s expression darkens.
“What is it this ti-” His angry voice stops abruptly as he sees it. You and Beckman look after to see what it is, it’s your captain. “What the hell..” The redhead is dressed in shiny pearls, droplets of water running down his face. It even has his scar and missing arm. “Sirens are supposed to be seductive women, right?”
“Thats what they were, male sirens are supposed to be rare. If this is their final weapon it’s a weird one.” Beckman explains, trying to figure out what’s happening.
“I don’t know, I would feel weird if I had to shoot the captain.” The sniper fiddles with his weapon.
“I’ve had urges to.” Being the first mate seems to have done nothing.
“If it’s meant to mirror who we most desire and neither of us like the captain then..” Their gaze slowly goes to you. You’re staring directly at Shanks(?). The way the pearls glitter across his skin and the droplets of water that fall over his face.
“Hey hey hey, seriously!?” Yasopp’s eyes are wide and Beckman looks only slightly surprised. He had a feeling. “(Y/n)! Snap out of it!” Shanks(?) swims over to a rock and props his chest over it, the water going between his propped up pecs. You’re very clearly enchanted.
“(Y/n)~ Come into the water. It feels nice here, won’t you join me?” The male siren asks with a wink. You can feel your heart beating faster and your pupils dilating.
“We can take our time crossing the lagoon right? We aren’t in a rush?”
“As if! Get over here!” You get the smack from earlier returned to you, jolting you out of it.
“Thanks, let’s just go-”
“I’m not wearing anything under the water, you know.” Your captain(?) muses and you feel the back of your clothes being tugged. You didn’t even notice that you were about to walk in. The siren giggles. “You’re so cute.” Your head feels like it’s going in circles.
“How are you doing worse than the both of us combined!?” The first mate has to grab you and sling you over his shoulder to cross the rest of the lagoon. The entire time you make it hard for him by struggling; arguing that you’re totally strong enough to protect yourself in the water in case something bad happens or that you just want to peek. You try to run into the lagoon as soon as you’re put down on the other side.
“Seriously, come—on!” You’re dragged away by the strength of both your crewmates.
“Aw, darn~ Well, I got to see something interesting.” Is the last you hear of the fake captain.
The rest of the outing is silent, even when you get the meat you were searching for.
“Hey~!! Over here!” Rockstar yells as you three spot them. On your way to them you hear a familiar voice and your body tenses.
“Jeez, that took long.” Your captain is sitting down with a big smile. “I hope you weren’t having fun without me?”
“We were having a blast.” The vice captain jokes while sitting down.
“Aww and after I volunteered so helpfully to stay here to watch the others.” Shanks leans back, very relaxed.
“You look like you just wanted to take it easy.”
“Not true! But get that boar cooking already.” Everyone laughs and you nervously try to follow along. You can feel Yasopp and Beckman’s gaze on you, what are you supposed to do about this? Your love for the captain was practically flashbanged to them in a way that’s impossible for you to deny. The only thing you could do is try to argue it’s only lust but that would only make you look bad. Despite how you all joke around everyone cares for the captain, if you tried to say something like “Oh I’m not in love with him I just want to fuck him!” you risk them thinking you see the captain as nothing but a sex object.. who knows what would happen to you after that. That’s on the very slim chance they believe you, too. “Hey, (Y/n), don’t tell me you aren’t hungry!” The reason this happened scoots closer to you. “After walking around that much you’ve got to have worked up an appetite.”
“Ah…” You spaced out. A hand is put on your shoulder.
“He’s feeling alright.” Beckman came to your rescue. “He got startled earlier and screamed like a little girl so he’s just a bit embarrassed.” Asshole. That makes Shanks laugh and your heart flutters.
“You can stick by me if you’re still scared!” He pats the ground with his hand. “On my right side, for obvious reasons.” You take the offer and sit on his right side, earning a pat on the back. His smile is comforting, he must be actually trying to soothe you. His soothing is further established when he whispers into your ear. “It’s alright, I’ve screamed like a little girl plenty of times. Don’t tell anyone, though.” You keep a good poker face while nodding despite the urge to get even closer.
“Thank you.”
“No problem.” You get a hard smack on the back. “Now eat, eat, eat!”
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You wake up in the night needing to take a piss. A groan leaves your throat, you don’t want to get up but you also don’t want to piss yourself. You sleepily get out of your sleeping bag to hear shuffling beside you. Shanks is also getting up.
“You gotta go too?” He asks and you nod. “Might as well go together.”
While you’re peeing on the wall of a cliff you notice something off about the moss on it. When you touch it your hand goes through, shaking to reveal the lagoon from before. How many entrances are there? There’s a ripple in the water that makes you gasp. It’s the sirens from before! To your detriment the gasp caused Shanks to sprint to you in seconds with a hand on his sword; he takes it off when the entrance is in view. He glances down before suddenly looking away. Confused, you look down. Your dick is still out.
“Ack!” You hurriedly put it back in place. You should’ve developed a thick skin by now but it’s always different with him. At least he’s polite about it. Once you’re decent he looks back.
“A lagoon?” Peeking inside carefully, he steps on one of the rocks.
“Wait!” His body snaps towards you and you pause. You can’t say that you’ve been here before and warn him. If you do, he’ll ask what happened; and you’ve never been great with lying to him when he gets so curious. Still.. “There are sirens here.” ..you can’t risk his safety.
“Sirens?” Uh oh, his eyes are twinkling. You made it worse. “They sing, right? I can cover my ears, don’t worry.” There he goes..
You follow.
The two of you hop across rocks while Shanks admires the lagoon. You haven’t seen any sirens yet and the captain looks a little disappointed.
“Maybe they’ll come out if I take a dip.” You grab him by the shoulder. “Kidding! mostly.” You wish you had help to reign him in, how were you supposed to know there were more entrances!? He can’t even swim well with one arm! Wait that also means he can't cover his ears, either. “Heeeyyy! Is anyone in there!!!??” Now he’s yelling. What kind of captain is this. The head of a woman finally pokes out and he gasps in awe. “Oo, she really is pretty!” She dives back in. “Ack! Did I scare her off?” Before you can stop him he gets on his knees and sticks his head in. “Hey! Come back! I’m friendly!” That’s what you think he said, anyway. It’s bubbly. You grab the back of his shirt and pull him up.
“Captain!”
“What?” You try to speak again but he shushes you when he hears bubbles.
“Don’t shush me! These sirens don’t sing! They can turn into the person you long for!” You blurt out. You don’t know who it is or what they’ll look like but you don’t want something to harm your captain even if it means outting yourself. You spot what looks like a male figure underwater. ‘Don’t tell me it’ll turn into Shanks in front of him!’ As you feared, a man comes out of the water.
…But it’s you.
It’s you?
You stare at yourself(?) completely confused, tilting your head down to see Shanks’s eyes completely wide. You’re dressed in the same fancy pearls that the fake captain was in before.
“Oh? Isn’t this a plot twist~?” You(?) say with a fake shocked expression, clearly more amused than anything. “You are right, by the way. I’m the same as my sisters, I turn into the person you long for. Though they typically call for me if that person is male. I never thought it would end up like this, though.” Shanks snaps his head to you.
“I-I–Listen, this is..” His gaze trails back to you(?). The fake you winks at Shanks before gripping its chest.
“Do you like these as well?” The redhead flushes. “Or maybe..” You(?) use the rock to prop yourself up to the v-line. “..you would like to see something else?” He’s opening and closing his mouth like a fish, beet red.
“I’m right here, you know! The ACTUAL (Y/n)!” You grab him by the sides of his face and force him to face you. You can’t really register what’s going on right now but you don’t like how your crush is being seduced by someone else who also looks like you.
“Sorry, I’m being an asshole.” He tries to get up.
“I’m not wearing anything under the water~” You grab the back of his clothes to stop him from diving in. “Wow you both fell for that.” Shanks’s head is going crazy but it stops.
“Both?” You flinch.
“Yes, I was you earlier. I almost got your friend just by being a little sexy about it. Or are you two friends? Is it complicated? Not that I care that much anyway.” You and Shanks stare at each other before speaking at the same time.
“You like me too!?”
“Wait, why are you shocked!? You see yourself right there!”
“It’s hard to register what’s going on right now, okay!?” Everything goes silent.
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“You two are going to be silent? Really? After this? Don’t tell me I’m not going to get a kill and you both are going to be stupid.” You(?) flick your tail underwater, displeased.
“So you were trying to seduce me! That’s low!” Your captain yells and the siren’s expression sours.
‘I should’ve tried ripping his head off when he dunked it underwater.’ Shanks clears his throat and calms his mind down. He’s acting childish because of how flustered he is but he can’t be a fool about this.
“So, we ended up both liking each other! I should thank you! I forgive you for trying to seduce and kill me, right?” He looks back at you and you kiss him. The kiss lasts less than 5 seconds but when you pull away you see Shanks beet red again. “okay, yeah, people that like each other do this.” He takes a deep breath and pulls you in for another kiss that lasts longer. The siren says a word in his head that isn’t nice. When you pull away both of your faces are hot.
“Don’t look at a fake me like that anymore. You saw my dick earlier already, and if you want to see it again I can show you.” Shanks grins and you two kiss again. There's a splash and you almost fall off the rock from a small wave.
“Just leave alre-”
“Thank you!” The captain yells, catching the siren off guard. “You know what, why don't you guys party with us?”
“??? Huh???”
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You and the crew sit at shore of the lagoon, some on the rocks as you all party with the sirens. Some are louder, some are quietly talking, you spot a siren next to Yasopp; she looks like she’s apologizing. You hear scooting next to you and see Shanks with sparkling eyes.
“Kiss?” You stare at him for a moment before giving him a smooch on the lips. The only male siren in the background gives a mental clapping as congratulations.