(28) Navigator, to the West Blue!

We have a bit of a predicament, I'm contemplating on whether to let Bepo be our ship's navigator.

I know he has experience as a navigator, but I don't really trust a big polar bear giving me direction.

There was a person I had in mind to be our crews navigator: Laffite.

One of the Ten Titanic Captains of the Blackbeard Pirates, Captain of the Fifth Ship: the "Demon Sheriff" that Laffite.

The incredibly pale, cane wielding, tall, dark red lipstick wearing, Michael Jackson looking guy.

His sense of style was…unique. Anyway, I wanted him on the crew for two main reasons; one he's versatile, his abilities weren't limited to simply being a navigator unlike an orange haired greedy certain someone.

In the Marineford Arc he was able to hypnotize Marines to open the Gates of Justice for him, that feat alone is already insanely impressive.

He is also a master in the art of stealth and infiltration. When he traveled to Mary Geoise he easily bypassed all security defenses of the sacred land, and even joined in on the meeting for the new Warlord of the sea nomination.

The second reason was that his loyalty was insanely high, he threatened to kill Avalo Pizarro though jokingly; who suggested he should replace Teach as captain of the crew.

I'd enjoy having such a loyal person as a crew member, the only slight problem with him was his cruel violent personality that he has right now.

As years haven't gone by yet his personality shouldn't be the calm and affable one I saw in the show.

Our final destination in the Blue seas was of course the West Blue sea, the 80th marine branch to be precise.

I could only hope Laffite was still there as after he was exiled, there was little to no details on his location; the only thing about him was him joining the Blackbeard pirates.

"Captain! Whatcha thinkin about?" Kitt shouted from the side of the helm, in his pelican form. (A/N: Spelling mistakes are intentional he speaks like that)

I looked over to him in amusement and asked him.

"Kitt, how did you… well get like that?" I asked curiously, I already knew how but I wanted to hear it from him.

"How I got like this? Hmm it was a couple of years ago, there was this weird green berry sized fruit that had these marks on it; I was lost for days in the forest and was starving, so I ate it without worrying about if it was poisonous or not.

The fruit was utterly disgusting! But a real man pushes through is what I told myself and I swallowed it, than I suddenly transformed into a pelican. I was freaked out for a bit but than I was totally amazed about flying through the air, after I transformed back I threw up a bunch though so it took a while to get used to. Hehehe!" Kitt laughed as he told me about his experience.

"Now that I look back, I wonder why I thought that berry would fill me up it was barely the size of a grape."

"Did you get some food after that?"

"Oh, yeah! As soon as my mom heard about how hungry I was, she cooked a week's worth of food for me and guess what? I ate it all! I was surprised about how much my small stomach could hold as I was only like nine." Kitt smiled brightly as he remembered his mother, his expression turned a little gloomy and I knew why.

"Kitt, don't worry we'll find your mom. I promise!"

Even if I had to pressure this dumb system a bit for hints.

[What was that Host?]

Nothing, Nothing!

"Thanks Cap." Kitts gloomy expression turned back to normal, a slight smile popped up on his face.

"No problem." As we were talking a small ship slowly came in view, I realized where we were and we were already pretty close to the 80th Marine Branch.

"Kitt."

"On it!" Kitt flew away from the helm and flew towards the small ship.

A few minutes later Kitt arrived on the man's ship.

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[Kitt's POV]

"Hey!" I shouted, the guy was really pale had me wondering if he was sick or something.

"Huh? Who's talking?" The abnormally pale guy said.

"Up here! The green pelican!"

"A talking pelican?! I've seen a lot of things in my life and this has to be the craziest, I am still a bit young though!"

"I'm not an actual pelican ya know."

"Then what are you? A human who shapeshifted into one? That'd be the only reasonable explanation."

"Spot on! So, why are you out here wait how about you come to my ship and explain to me and my Captain."

"Captain? You're a pirate?"

"Mhm! The fiercest pirate in all of the New World! Kitt! The Pelican King!"

"Huhuhu! That's a wild fantasy you've got there, Sir Kitt! Hahaha."

"Fantasy?! Tsk! No one ever believes in me! Hmph!" Kitt pouted as he guided the random man back to the ship.

"Oh right, I never got your name man. So what's your name?" Kitt asked curiously.

"Me? The names Laffite." Laffite leaned on his cane and lightly smiled.

"Laffite huh, a good name!"