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Loguetown is a city on the Polestar Islands in East Blue, covering nearly the entire island it is on, save for a few steep hills. The town is also known as 'The town of the beginning and the end', because the former Pirate King Gol D. Roger was born and executed there. Almost all East Blue ships, especially pirate ships, pass through to stock up on supplies for the Grand Line, since Loguetown is in a convenient location very close to Reverse Mountain, just out of sight of the Red Line.
"Here we are at the start of the Grand Line," Vampire said to Max and Silk.
"And after we rest and pick up supplies it's off to Reverse Mountain the only way into the Grand Line," Max said.
"Well actually there are other ways in but this is the safest way into the Grand Line that's free," Vampire said. (1)
"Free?" Max ask.
"There are some locks that actually takes you all the way up to the top of the Red Line but those cost alot to use. There are also other ways into the Grand Line but this is the fastest and those others are for ships that are way too big for the path we're taking," Vampire said.
"And the Calm Belt is full of Sea Kings," Silk said.
"Never had a problem with them. Lost some ships but never had a problem in dealing with the Sea Kings," Vampire said.
"Well you are superstrong," Max said.
"In any case we will need to clean out the pantry and fridge of spoiled food and other trash before we reach the port," Vampire said.
"Should we really be throwing trash into the sea?" Silk ask.
"As long as it's just organic stuff there be something that will eat it," Vampire said going to the kitchen to clean it out of food that they need to throw. (2)
"I'll empty out the biscuit barrel," Silk said.
"And I'll be at the wheel," Max said seeing she's the only one left.
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Later -
After dumping the spoiled food and near spoiled food into the sea, the Dreadful Whale was dock at a pier. Vampire hired some workers to give the ship a tune up while she and the others went and shop. Vampire would be stopping at the Marine Base of the island to check up on things and allow the marines there to take pictures of the radio thing. She is still going to personally deliver it to the main HQ but she would let the marines at the base take pictures of it.
Vampire stop as she spotted a familiar figure. Both Max and Silk stop as they look towards where Vampire is looking at. They saw a tall woman with fiery pink hair and large pink eyes. She is dressed in a dark red flamenco dress with white frills, a green sash that she uses as a belt with a large red rose on her hip, and hot pink shoes. She wears a gold headband and a silver-emerald necklace that match her diamond-shaped emerald earrings.
"Carmen, it's been awhile," Vampire said walking up to the cook.
"It has Vampire," Carmen said walking to her old lover.
"Hi," Max said.
"Vampire are you traveling with these two?" Carmen ask eyeing Silk and Max.
"Yes meet my two crew mates, Silk and Max," Vampire said.
"You finally have a ship that you're not just using till you find someone to buy it?" Carmen ask.
"The Dreadful Whale a stream ship that I took from some pirates. Now I'm using it as my own and picked up a crew as well," Vampire said.
"Vampire who is she?" Silk ask.
"Carmen a friend of mine who is an extremely well known cook. She has challenged and beaten almost every notable cook in the East Blue. Her style of cooking is quite flamboyant, using flashy movements to convey basic tasks such as turning on burners and peeling carrots. Her dishes turn out almost as visually appealing as her cooking itself and are enough to make many cooks admit defeat. And she is also shared my bed more than once," Vampire adds.
"You have?" Silk ask.
"You haven't?" Carmen ask.
"Talk to Max about it," Silk said.
"She is still on the fence if she wants to share my bed or not," Vampire said. "Can you take them to Gally's Inn while I go to the Marine base?"
"Sure," Carmen said.
"Thanks," Vampire said walking off.
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At the Marine Base -
At the base one of the many bounty hunters had placed the chest full of heads on the desk of the office where bounties were turned in. The desk jockey grew pale seeing all the heads in the chest. The bounty hunter who brought in the chest of heads, is infamous in only bringing in dead bounties.
Her name is Tobias, Pelican also known at the Bone Hunter.
She got the name because of the outfit she wore. She always wore a helmet made out of the skull of a gorilla mink and wore a leather coat that's covered in pieces of bones that act as armor. She wore a metal breastplate as well as other armor pieces that gave her protection from gunfire. Which many didn't see coming as her coat hides her armor and that not many wear armor in the first place. (3)
Unknown to all, she is a 30 something catfish mermaid who in her mermaid form has a tail of a catfish and has purple eyes. She has hair done in a bowl cut with the left side of her hair red with blue stars and the right side of her hair is green. She has a tattoo on her left bicep of a banana bleeding and screaming in agony as it's being peeled, it's her sense of humor. She's also a zoan devil fruit user. Her fruit allows her to turn into a venomous centipede and a venomous centipede/mermaid hybrid. All hidden by her outfit that hides her tall and trim figure. Not skinny, rather she has 'farmer muscles' by genes and hard exercise in her line of work. Her biceps, thin enough to nearly close your hand around, are yet strong and firm.
Pelican mainly hunts down slavers who have bounties on their heads. Which is why she's is well known for only bringing in her bounties dead. The reason why she does it, is to make sure that the slavers can't enslaved anymore people. As a young mermaid she saw and heard of many mermaids being captured to be made into slaves. That was till Whitebeard made their underwater home part of his territory. Causing all the slavers to stop their raids in fear of the Whitebeard pirates.
She hides all sorts of weapons on her person. People catching a look inside her coat would see a huge number of weapons hanging inside it. Then there's the large backpack that she carries around that's full of weapons as well as supplies. She's a walking armory, and thanks to her super strength as a mermaid and training to make herself stronger. She is able to carry all of her equipment.
"You know you should try bringing in them alive for a change," the clerk said looking over the heads that have their wanted posters pinned to their heads.
"Maybe one day," Pelican said.
Collecting her payment after the clerks counted all the heads and got the money she earned, Pelican made her way out the building. As she did she came across Smoker talking with Vampire. Pelican had heard of Vampire before meeting her, which was at the Marine bases where she was collecting her bounties.
"Really leaving here just to chase after some rookie pirates?" Vampire ask Smoker.
"They're the first pirates to escape from here under my watch," Smoker said.
"That you know of anyways," Vampire said.
"What do you mean?" Smoker ask.
"As long as they don't fly their flag and aren't well known pirates. Many can just sail into port and leave without anyone knowing they're pirates," Vampire said.
"Ok, no known pirate has ever escape from the island," Smoker said.
"Well you were stop by Dragon," Vampire said.
"I'm still trying to figure out why he step in," Smoker said.
"Good luck on that," Vampire said knowing the reason why her dad had stepped in. Even if he never spent time with Luffy, he is still his son.
"Vampire," Pelican said making herself known to her old lover.
"Pelican it's been awhile," Vampire said having gotten to know Pelican on a few encounters. Like her she's a lesbian who enjoys sex as much as she does. She is also as blood thirsty as she is sex crazy, finding joy in tracking down and killing slavers with a bounty on their heads.
"Yes and you have a ship and a crew now?" Pelican ask.
"Looking to join?" Vampire ask.
"I am heading back to the grand line and you're going there. Might as well join your crew till, I'm back home," Pelican said.
"And maybe you can keep her from just bringing in heads," Smoker said.
"I'll try but just not that hard," Vampire said.
"Should have known," Smoker said walking off to oversee the things he needs to do before he can leave to go after the Straw Hats.
"Let's continue this back at the inn me and my crew are staying at," Vampire said.
"And it be nice to see the crew you manage to get," Pelican said.
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At the Inn -
Silk slept in the room that was rented for the couple of days. She was alone seeing how Vampire and Max are busying themselves with both Carmen and Pelican. Both Carmen and Pelican would be joining them as part of the crew once they get the supplies and set sail. The ship is undergoing repairs and being restocked.
Carmen had told them over dinner how she was beaten by a chef she had met before when they were younger. And Vampire told her that while she is good there are chefs even better then her. Like how she still hasn't found anyone who can bake brownies like her friend, Jeffrey back on her home island. Sure she does eat fancy meals she likes simple not fancy foods. Like the bake goods that have all sorts of frosting and toppings, she doesn't like them. So Carmen decided to join them and learn new dishes and cooking skills. And use different kinds of food items then what she normally use in her cooking. So now the ship has a cook.
As for Pelican she's a fellow bounty hunter who is just traveling with them to return to the Grand Line and would be apart of the crew till they reach where she's going. She's going to be the ship's gunner thanks to her being more of a long range attacker. She learned to use just about every kind of weapon there is and carries all the weapons she likes using and is best at.
"I really should figure out if where I stand in joining them or not," Silk said hearing all the flesh slapping and banging going on in the other room.
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A few days later -
Vampire gazed at the sight of Reverse Mountain with the water going up instead of going down. One of the ways to enter the Grand Line or get out of the Grand Line. They had to make room for the two new crew mates. Vampire was already sleeping in the bridge of the ship. Max and Silk were sharing a room, while Carmen is sharing a room with Pelican. Of course since leaving Loguetown they been in the room at the keel end of the ship at the end of the cargo space. Vampire had put a large bed there and been having sex with all the other crew members. It's the sex room where the crew can go and have all the sex they want without making a mess elsewhere on the ship.
"So what is the Grand Line like?" Max ask.
"It's a wild place. The sea and the islands possess a vast number of unpredictable phenomena that are not seen anywhere else in the world, many of which make sailing extremely difficult.," Pelican said.
"And that's only the Paradise half. Once we enter the New World half, it will get wilder," Vampire said.
"With the pirates being the strongest," Silk said.
"Yes the strongest around. Of course that was before I showed up," Vampire said. "I have faced off with many of the strongest pirates and crews and beaten them."
"Of course there is the matter of Joke," Pelican said.
"I never faced anything like him before," Vampire said.
"Read it in the paper," Carmen said.
"It didn't take long for that to leak out," Max said.
"Well be prepared for more like him," Pelican said.
"What do you mean?" Vampire ask.
"Ever since you started making noise and stirring things up. You acted like a lighthouse that is drawing things that have been hiding in the shadows out into the light," Pelican said.
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Elsewhere -
A woman glowing with electricity walk away from the smoking bodies she left in her wake.
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A man walks up to a crawling man, pulling out a gun from nowhere and firing the flintlock into the back of his head, around them are the bodies riddled with bullets.
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A woman laughs as she stands in a book store standing over the body of the young man who had found and open the book that she was trap in.
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Loud screaming could be heard from ruins of a castle that the marines were rebuilding to make into a base. A woman who is black and white was seen flying away from the castle. The marines outside the castle enter to find all the marines who were inside dead. With blood coming out of their ears.
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A man walks away from skeletons that are melting in pools of acid.
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Inside a toy store a fish man is working on creating toys.
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A sword went through a woman's body like it was made of light and the woman punch the man's head off.
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From a grave an arm burst out of the ground. With a voice underneath shouting, 'Born on a...
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Grand Line -
"She can be hurt and bleed," Carter Herman said as he works on a body of a large white gorilla, with an enlarged skull that housed it's big brain.
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Author's Notes -
1 - I figure that there are other ways into the Grand Line seeing how big the flag ship of the Krieg Pirates are and how Thriller Bark use to be an island in the West Blue and would to way too big to ever go up Reverse Mountain. There would have to be other ways to enter the Grand Line.
2 - Throwing food scraps into the sea would have something eat it, especially when you're out in the open sea far off the coast. As many sea life depend on stuff floating to the bottom to feed them. It's when it's inorganic trash like plastic and metal being toss into the sea or is toxic is when it causes a problem.
3 - Unlike in cannon armor will protect people who wear them from harm. And besides the rule of cool that manga and anime runs on. The reason why in this fic people don't wear armor, is that it would weigh them down if they fall into water.
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