Chapter 29 - A Summer Island! The Ship Will Not Be Stolen!

Author Note: Just stopping by to remind that this chapter will be the first of a few that have been based on the events of the second movie, Clockwork Island Adventure!

So get ready because the next chapters are full of action and fight, with very important developments!

Happy reading!

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In the kitchen of Black Artemis.

Nami was calmly reading a newspaper while Nojiko was making breakfast: Fried eggs with mikan sauce for Nami, yogurt with fruits for herself, and meat and rice for Noah, who would also eat a good portion of cereal with milk right after.

They even laughed when they found out about his peculiar tastes for breakfast. But his response left them a little sad afterward: "I never ate this until I was 18 years old."

But, anyway, each of them was doing something when the kitchen door opened.

"Good morning..." Noah said with a tired expression as soon as he arrived in the kitchen. It was clear that the previous night had not been at all comfortable for him.

"Difficult hunt?" Nami asked worriedly, looking at Nojiko wanting to know an answer from her as well. After all, she was the one responsible for him last night.

"A certain boss suddenly appeared..." Noah waved his hands after sitting down, preferring to forget the new traumatic experience of having all his limbs and body separated at once by a certain type of blue bird. The trauma of death was so great that his body took a few hours to wake up.

"A good breakfast can help. Eat." Nojiko went to him with her plate in hand and placed it on the table. After that, she gave him a kiss on the head and went to get the other dishes.

Meanwhile, Nami began to play with his feet with her own feet.

"What is our current route?" Having his spirit revived by their caresses, he asked after some time.

"We are on the correct and shortest route. As far as everything indicates, we can really get there in two days." Nami thought briefly before responding.

Every day she plotted their coordinates and knew exactly where they were going and how to navigate the maritime waves. And with her current expertise in navigation, which was much better due to the constant consumption of purple orbs, she could say with absolute certainty that she was the best navigator of the East Blue. She just wouldn't say from the Grand Line because Noah made it very clear to them that that was a place of unimaginable powers.

"And our finances?" Knowing that everything was okay with that, he moved on to the next concern. After all, the Grand Line, and especially Paradise, would be a big money sucker for them, 'In fact, exploring Skypea is a must, especially for the pockets...'

"We have the same amount as when we left Loguetown. After selling all the gold, we got about ฿40,000,000.00, and if you add what we didn't manage to spend, we have a total of ฿43,000,000.00. Our weapons were quite expensive, which is why we spent so much." Nojiko, who was in charge of finances, remembered the value they had on hand for now. And that was all in notes, with the only pieces of jewelry being the rings they decided to keep and a few gold accessories they liked quite a bit.

"That's good. There are some equipment that will be necessary in the Grand Line and that can cost quite a lot. Especially you, Nami. Navigation equipment costs the price of an island." Noah was pleased to know that they still had a lot of money on hand.

"Pfft, as expensive as an island?" Nami laughed a bit, but without trying to discredit him, "And what do these things do? Guess the location of the next island?"

'Bingo.' Noah exclaimed inside, but just smiled at her.

While they were having a harmonious breakfast, a bump suddenly came and shook the ship a little. Nothing that made them even move, but just to know that something was happening outside.

And so, as they went out to see what it was, Nami's eyes lit up like two stars.

It was a tranquil and serene island, filled with lush vegetation and a beautiful village scattered through it. The beach, with its crystal blue waters, seemed to invite anyone to go there. The fine white sand contrasted perfectly with the blue sea, creating a truly unique and unforgettable landscape.

"Wow, this beach is so beautiful!" With her special love for summer islands, Nami suddenly turned to Noah, her mind already having some thoughts, "Can we stop here, please?? Please, please, can we?"

Her puppy dog eyes seemed to want to charm Noah into letting them spend some time here. She was asking like this because she knew that, as the Captain, he is the one who has the final say.

"No."

But his answer seemed like a bucket of cold water to her. Depression began to come her way until she felt her chin being lifted and a light kiss came.

"I'm kidding, go put on a bikini." Noah held back his laughter at seeing how Nami went from depressive to instant joy, taking only a bite on the lip as punishment.

"Hmpf! You're going to have to put sunscreen on me as punishment!"

After that, she ran inside, excited for the day at the beach.

"She likes beaches like this." Nojiko casually commented while looking at the island they were approaching.

"Do you like it too?" Noah noticed how she was looking at the island, with a guarded desire to do that too, and felt a bit of pity. She always had to be the older sister who kept her own wishes to herself.

"Maybe a little- kyaa!" Nojiko was going to shrug it off when suddenly she felt herself being lifted by strong arms. And when she looked down, she saw that Noah was resting his chin on her belly and looking at her. And understanding his gaze, she just blushed a little, "I'm going to put on my bikini."

"Good." Noah only let her go when he gave her a kiss and watched her go.

And then he followed her inside, since he also wanted to get a pair of shorts to go swimming.

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Just a few minutes later, they were at the top of the Black Artemis's main mast, with Noah having proposed a rather interesting idea. Racing up the upper sail mast, they would jump and see who had the most beautiful leap.

"Wow, it's really high up here." Nami lightly commented while feeling the pleasant breeze.

Dressed in an orange bikini with golden details, Nami was exposing her tempting curves to Noah's hungry eyes at that moment. Considering her measurements B98-W58-H88, which is a Japanese J-Cup size, she was indeed being a walking temptation.

"The higher, the better. At least I think so." Nojiko also saw the height from which they would jump and felt her heart beat faster.

Just like her sister, Nojiko wore a tempting and simplistic blue bikini, not lacking at all in the 'seductive' aspect. Her sizes were a bit larger than Nami's, due to her being older, being B100-W59-H90. And thanks to both of them having undergone various body refinements, their skin was the most immaculate, without any visible veins or stretch marks due to accelerated growth.

"Yes, yes, for sure..." In the meantime, Noah, who was only wearing a white floral beach short, was mumbling something behind them, his eyes attentive on their voluptuous bodies. It was almost too much temptation and he could end up like a certain actor in a certain movie (Charlie Sheen: Scary Movie 4).

"Who's going to jump first?" Nami asked after calculating the height and seeing that they were almost 30 meters from the water, which was roughly the height of the ship's complete mast.

"I will!" Nojiko couldn't contain her excitement as she started to run up the mast and jump, "Woohoo!"

With a few stunts and acrobatics, she made her fall to the water spectacular, finally diving skillfully head-first and piercing the water.

"I give it 10 points!" Noah evaluated her fall and then held up ten fingers for Nojiko down below, who celebrated the score.

"My turn then..." Nami looked at the "corridor of death" for a while and then turned to Noah, "Good luck kiss?"

"I hope you can impress me." Laughing a bit, he kissed her lips and couldn't hold his hand towards her ass.

Slap!

"Now I'm confident!" Nami, feeling a bit of heat in her cheeks, seemed to have fire in her eyes when she ran to the edge of the sail and then jumped, "Let's gooo!"

And with a spectacular sequence of flips, she dove into the water as if she were a fish returning to its habitat. As soon as she resurfaced, she saw Noah up there with all ten fingers raised.

"Now it's my turn." Noah thought for a bit before recalling a type of competition on Earth and became interested, "Well, my physique is much better now..."

And without further discussion, he assumed a heroic pose as he jumped, not changing anything until he reached the bottom!

BOOM!

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After a while of swimming and playing at the beach, with Noah missing some kind of camera to record the moment, they finally decided to get out of the water.

With a few beach chairs and a large sunshade, plus a good old barbecue, they decided to spend some more time there before they had to leave.

Standing in front of the barbecue, Noah was watching the meat skewers fry while taking a sip of sake from the bottle in his hand. And he wasn't grilling the meat, since he honestly feared that the stick would suddenly break and the meat would fall straight onto the burnt wood. But he had to stand there because he was the most practical "lighter" on the ship.

"Noah, your turn." Nojiko's voice sounded behind him and soon she arrived, carrying some sort of sunscreen in her hand. After putting the cream on her hands, she began to spread it on his back, "Stay still and don't joke around."

"But I'm not wearing a shirt? This is already enough sun protection for me." He asked as he felt her hands running down his back and then moving to his abdomen.

At this moment, since they were no longer going into the water, Noah was just wearing a black floral beach shirt and had sunglasses on his head. Nami and Nojiko had also put on jeans shorts over their wet bikinis and an open women's beach shirt, still allowing their majestic busts held by the top to be seen. Nami wore a white shirt with mikan prints while Nojiko wore a light blue shirt with white flower prints. Each also had sunglasses to complement the style, as well as some gold accessories.

"You're lucky we're not going to apply it to your legs too." Nojiko chuckled a bit when she finished applying it all over his chest and trapezius. And grabbing a bit more cream, she raised her hand, "Come here, I want to apply it to your face."

As she applied it all over his face, she smiled when she felt his naughty hands circling her back and bringing the two even closer. And as soon as she finished applying the sunscreen, she held his chin and bit his lips.

"That only later, naughty boy…" Barely escaping the claws of the monster, Nojiko smiled at him and went to join her sister for a sunbath.

Watching the two women, his women, sunbathing in such a comfortable and peaceful way on this beautiful and cozy beach, Noah for the first time thought that the world of One Piece was a good place to retire and spend his life raising a brood of children.

'Hehe, who would have thought that I would already have these old people's thoughts ...'

Laughing a little at his paternal need, Noah took another sip of sake and returned to watching the waves while waiting for his skewer to be ready.

Until something caught his attention on Black Artemis.

"Really? Another theft?" And with a raised eyebrow, he laughed a little and treated the situation with a lot of calm.

Walking to Nami, who was closer to him and almost sleeping during her sunbath, he handed the bottle of sake into her hands.

"Something happened?" Nami slightly lifted her sunglasses and took a sip from his bottle. Nojiko also got up a little from the side beach chair and kept looking at him.

"There's someone stealing the ship. I'm going to see who it is." And with a lot of indifference, he just walked through the sand there.

The sweet voices of the girls sounded right after.

"Come back soon, darling!" x2

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With the ship docked on a shore near them, Noah just walked towards the stern of the ship and jumped. He already knew they were raising the anchor after hoisting the sails, and therefore they were almost starting.

If it weren't for his arrival, of course.

Easily climbing up the stern, he soon saw one of the thieves already at the helm, ready to start steering the ship away.

This guy had orange, almost pink, hair, wearing strange clothes. His shirt in particular had four 'Spades' symbols in a straight line on the shirt. And the most interesting point, which almost made Noah laugh, was that he had a bandaged leg, as if he had been shot a short time ago.

'I can't believe it's these guys again...' Laughing at the irony of fate, Noah walked up to the guy.

And without even worrying about making noise, he just put his arm around his neck and held him tightly. And with his vision on the upper part of the ship, he saw that there were two more people on deck, and their appearances were exactly the same as he remembered.

"What- gasp!" The orange-haired guy didn't even had time to be properly shocked when he felt his throat completely stuck and he couldn't speak or breath anymore. And even though he struggled a lot, it seemed like his neck had been caught by steel chains!

Shortly after, he ended up fainting. With no malicious intent, Noah immediately let him go and his body fell to the ground, making a noise that alerted the other two.

"Donny? Is everything alright there?" One of the other guys, one with purple hair and prescription glasses on his face, called out to his friend when he looked up and saw a tall man with white hair at the helm. And immediately he was startled, "HEY! Who the hell are you?"

"…"

An awkward silence ensued as Noah looked at the guy in pink pants as if he were looking at a donkey with IQ issues. And with a sigh, he seemed to resign himself to the fate of answering this stupid question.

"I am the owner of the ship, dumbass. Now get out."

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THUD!

With the sound of bodies being thrown on the sand in front of them, Nami and Nojiko opened their eyes and took off their sunglasses to see what was happening.

And as they expected, it was the thieves that Noah had just given a good beating, tied to each other by a rope. Well, just one of them, the one with purple hair, seemed to have been beaten up. As soon as they fell to the ground, they slowly woke up and soon realized where they were. And when they saw Nojiko, the shock grew even more and they remained silent.

"Was it them?" Nami looked at the three tied individuals and only needed a moment of realization, "Weren't those three who tried to steal our ship before? They were part of that gold-filled pirate's crew."

"Eldoraggo." Nojiko laughed at how her sister only focused on one thing and then pointed at the orange-haired guy, who was startled by her movement, "It was you I shot at, right?"

"You!" The guy in pink pants, named Denny, looked at them with fear and stuttered on, "Y-You were the ones who defeated Eldoraggo!"

"Well, at least they remember us. This is going to get easier." Noah commented while trying to remember whether this was a coincidence or if they were close to something that smells like money. Looking at the symbols on their shirts, he asked, "Who are you working for now?"

"For the-" Donny, who had been shot, was the most scared and was therefore already going to confess, but was stopped by the others.

"For no one!"x2

"W-We just wanted to steal your ship to escape from the island." Denny continued to speak, but quickly swallowed his saliva when a flintlock pistol was pointed at his face.

"Look, no beating around the bush, please. Who do you work for?" Noah asked calmly while he continued pointing the gun at his face. But after a while without an answer, he pointed it further down, at the "other head".

"Alright, I'll talk!" Denny immediately regretted staying silent and continued, "We are working for the Trump Pirates! They have a base on a nearby island called Clockwork Island and our job is to steal pirate ships from the area!"

"Just as I thought." Noah smiled a little when he found out it wasn't just a simple coincidence of fate. Maybe a little, to be honest.

"Do you know them?" Nojiko asked with interest, seeing how he seemed to have realized who they were.

"More or less." Throwing the flintlock pistol to Nojiko, he just smiled at them after a while, "But I know that on this island there is a very interesting thing."

"What?" Already feeling that they were about to go on another journey, Nami asked with curiosity.

"A very VERY big diamond clock."

And as if she had heard magic words, Nami's eyes immediately became symbols of berries. She also already knew the clock, and that's why she got even more excited.

"Can we go there?? (฿‿฿)"

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