Your Hearts Desire

After helping Tom and getting the ship all payed for we decided to go around Water 7 to see the sights of the island city, the girls wanted to shopping for clothes and other things and I unfortunately agreed to go with them.

As we were going around the city shopping for goods for the journey but for the trip for them it was a shopping spree for clothes, makeup and other girly things, while I was forced to carry it all and complement them on there choices of clothes and accessories.

Though it might seem I wasn't really enjoying myself on this shopping spree which I'm not gonna lie I wasn't but I was happy to see the girls happy and living care free like as kids there age should be.

*I sound like an old man thinking these thoughts.... well with the shit I went through I had to grow up quickly or I would have died already..... though I'm surprised those nobles hadn't put out a bounty on our heads yet*

What he didn't know is that the old master and mistress were currently questioning and searching all of the world nobles to see if they stole there prized slaves, it wasn't uncommon for other nobles to steal slaves from each other just to spite the victim in the situation, most nobles only acted like they liked each other on the surface but they are always trying to screw the competition over one way or another but soon as everything is figured out and realize that they escaped there will be bounties placed on there heads for escaping there masters.

Even if he knew he wouldn't be nervous at all, marine's might be the dogs of world nobles but they won't go out of there way to hunt escaped slaves, they leave that for slavers to handle the recapture of weak slaves in their opinion, which for Vargas is easy to dispatch slavers because there pretty weak in his opinion.

After thinking those thoughts I suddenly notice a bunch of jewelry in the shape of snakes of some kind, a pair of snake earrings, a golden snake necklace, a belt with the buckle in the shape of a open mouth snake, and a gold arm band of a coiling snake.

"Hey how much for the whole selection of snake themed items here?"

"Oh your interested in these young man? Are these for you and your friends here?"

"Yes it's a gift to remember the journey together from now and into the future."

They over hear the conversation between me and the jeweler and began to blush hard, with steam coming out of their heads, you see in the land of Amazon Lily if you gift a woman a present in the representation of a snake it means that your trying to court them and wish to make them there's, if they except it you are betrothed to one another, but if they reject it, they have to cut ties with one another and never see each other again.

But obviously Vargas didn't know this tradition and offered them the jewelry, the golden snake ear rings for Hancock, the Golden snake necklace for Sonia and the Golden snake armband for Marigold and for himself the golden snake belt.

But the girls didn't take them right away and brought him to a remote location of the city to one of the few parks.

"So why are we all the way out here?"

"You don't know the significance of offering a snake jewelry to a Kuja of Amazon Lily do you?" (Hancock)

"No? Is it like a sacred ritual or something?"

"…. No I-it's for a-something more personal than that." (Sonia)

"Then what does it mean if I give you these gifts?" I said with a look of genuine confusion on my face.

"… it means your trying to court us…." (Marie)

"…..WHAT!?!?!??!" I was genuinely startled that, that was what they were getting on about, but after thinking about it I started to calm myself down.

"If we accept these gifts from you then we will be betrothed to you, but if we say no we will have to part ways and never see each other again…" (Hancock)

I was genuinely getting nervous about all this, if this was a few years later I'd probably be more prepared for doing this but I'm doing this unintentionally and it might seem unwelcome to them currently, I still see them as friends and I just wanted to get them gifts, I know I'm not ready for this but I know for a fact that I take these back it will hurt there feelings so all I can say to myself is,

*Suck it up and push forward you have to be a man about this you'll regret it even more if you pull away now so based on the facts, you either get 3 beautiful girls to be your fiancées' or you bring them home and part ways then and there, whatever they decide you have to live by it because that's what a man should do*

"I understand, and I will respect whatever decision you girls make, whether we end up together forever or not I leave the decision to you, just know that I want to go on many more journeys together with the four of us all together." I say with a face of absolute resolution.

After they hear my statement they get all fidgety and embarrassed becoming red like tomatoes

"Then…. We need to test you to see if your determination is that strong…" (Hancock)

"I'll take whatever you girls try to throw ate me."

"Alright but not here, not now, we have to wait till we find a inn to stay the next 4 days at before the ship is finished." (Sonia)

"Fine then let's go find a place to stay at"

And so we agreed to do the test when we find a place to stay, but it took several hours for us to find an empty room at an inn, and of course it was one of the more expensive inns to stay at with a room with 3 meals a day included costing 25,000 berry a night so it was a total of 100,000 for the 4 days stay we decided to have only one room for the 4 of us to save money luckily it came with 2 beds and a small living room/ kitchen area with a couch that I could sleep on.

After everything was brought to the room I stood before them as they were seated on the couch and were about to test me.

"We need to see if you are true to your words with two tests, the first is to see how you react to my sisters snake forms." (Hancock)

"Alright show me what you got."

Hancock just nods to her sisters and soon they begin to enlarge, there legs changing into the form of a snakes tail, their skin started to get covered in scales, eyes and tongues like snakes, teeth enlarged to the shape of sharp fangs.

Even though seeing the process for a normal person would either terrify them or sicken them but I felt neither I genuinely found there snake looks to be cool and surprisingly sexy as well, but what they saw from my outward appearance I appeared completely come an unfazed by there new looks.

They saw this so they moved forward with the next step so they got up from the couch and slowly started to surround me while slowly wrapping there tails around my body to begin to constrict me and hold me in place till I was completely wrapped up in there tails with both of them looking me straight in the eyes with the expression of a snake that just caught it's prey.

"Ugh, it's a bit hard to breath but what are you trying to prove here?"

"… You're not disgusted in our appearance?" (Marie)

"Oh I'm sorry is what I said back on the ship just an after thought for you girls?" I say slightly irritated by them asking a dumb question

"You didn't just say that to cheer us up? You actually meant what you said?" (Sonia)

"I feel slightly insulted that you guys thought I was lying when I said those words too you two, I am a liar that's a fact but when I complement a beauty on her looks I mean every word I say." I say as I look directly in there beautiful snake eyes but because of that complement they begin to wiggle around and blush, well as much as a snake woman can blush, but they were starting to constrict on me too hard making it hard to breath so I had to use one of my free arms to rapidly tap on them for them to realize I'm suffocating.

"GUYS YOUR CHOKING HIM, GET OFF HIM!!!" Hancock yells at her sisters to let go, because of that they finally realize my face getting red from a lack of air so they rapidly let go just so I can breathe in some fresh air and coughing a bit. "I don't mind being wrapped in your tails just not around my neck ok? That could turn dangerous real quick if you girls aren't paying attention."

The girls nod but before they start to feel bad I pull them close and hug them, "Don't beat yourself over every little thing that you do or you won't be able to live life the way you want because your constantly worrying over everything you do." I then smile and kiss them on their foreheads which in turn causes a whole lot of steam to erupt from their heads causing them to fall over and faint.

"Alright you may have won the first challenge but the last on is the hardest of all to beat if you want us to be together from now on."

"Fine show me what you got I'll take everything you throw at me"

"If you can take my abilities without losing yourself to me you'll have passed the final test." She says as she activated her passive ability that can captivate all who see her, I was starting to get very much attracted to her but I could realize that this isn't me and I will never become a beast that follows his urges so my eyes start to become brighter as small flames were coming out of my eyes to keep my focus.

But then she launches a new attack at me by making her hands into the shape of a heart and shouting out.

"Love Love Beam!!!" And after she says those words a wave of energy passes through me that begins to petrify me but unlike everyone else where it's an instant petrification I'm only slowly being petrified starting at my hands and crawling up my arms but before it could get any farther I channel my flames though my arms and cause the petrification to fracture and with a swing of my arms on the table the stone that was there broke and bringing my arms back to normal, "I may not be perfect and that your skill which influences the lust or dirty thoughts of your enemy to make them turn to stone still can effect me what I feel for you is real and no matter what you girls become I promise to be by your sides from now on." As I say these words I extend my hand towards Hancock holding the golden snake earring.

After a while of her blushing so hard I was afraid she'd faint like her sisters she slowly takes the earrings away from me and then puts them on, shortly after her sisters awaken to see her wearing the earrings they both smile and take their gifts from me, Sonia the snake necklace and Marie the snake arm band and I proceeded to wear the the snake belt to match the three of them, I just grin at them and bring them into a big group hug which they reciprocated, "Now I have a real family to call my own don't I?"

"Yeah let's be together always" Hancock said with a happy blush on her face.

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After the test the girls put me through to become official couples with the 3 sisters we spent the next 4 days relaxing, shopping, eating and me giving the girls there own personal spa treatments, just normal ones of course we can try those things when we're all a bit older.

So after 4 days we went back to old toms by using O.E to bring us to dock on to check up on our ship to see if it was done

And what a sight it was to see our brand new ship in all it's glory with two triangle sails, a sleek red hull, and a cabin with a few rooms with a kitchen and storage down below deck.

"We've finished your ship and we've started to build the engine for the train and I got to say that when the shipment of coal comes in a few days will be able to prove if your engine idea works, will bring your ship over to the docks already to set sail when you need it to set off on your journey" Old Tom said while shaking my hand in thanks with the help on the train.

"Not at all Tom it has been a pleasure doing business with you." I say as I shake his hand back and then wave goodbye as me and the girls decide to head to our ship.

"Well we have a ship but we don't have a Log Pose that points to Amazon Lily…." Hancock said sadly as over the last 4 days of relaxation we've been searching everywhere for a log pose or an eternal pose for Amazon Lily but to no avail.

"Hmmmmm I really don't want to use my magic but it seems I'll have to use it so we can find Amazon Lily ASAP." I say this as I sigh and pull out the Multiverse shop menu to use another free buy, looking for navigational equipment, points where you want to go, portable as the key words and it came up with a 4 star item simply called the 'J.S Compass' with the line stating what ever you Hearts desire is asked while holding this compass will lead the way to your most desired location.

I then pull out a the compass from my shirt to show to the girls, "This will be our ticket back home."

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