Queen of the Pirates

A Talking Skeleton!?

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Our first full day out at sea truly is like any other. Not that I thought it would dramatically change just because we got a new ship. Chopper is checking out the sick bay to get familiar with everything. Zoro is up in the crow's nest either working out or resting between sets. Nami has decide to take the first bath out of all of us in the amazing bathroom. Luffy and Usopp are out fishing their hearts out as they fill up the aquarium. Sanji, Robin, Franky, and I are relaxing in the aquarium bar room. Robin and I are at the table (which has a dumbwaiter to the kitchen) drinking hot drinks that Sanji made us, Franky is sitting on the plush bench around the aquarium, and Sanji is standing nearby to watch the fish that the boys are catching.

"After the excitement of the last couple of weeks, I'm glad that we now have a moment of calm," I smile, adjusting Luffy's straw hat on my head.

"Aren't you used to it?" Robin takes a sip of her coffee. "Having grown up with Luffy and all." She's changed into a long-sleeve dark purple dress with lace embroidered edges, stockings held up to her thighs by suspenders, and black high-heeled boots that stop below her knees with a row of buttons up the middle.

"His grandfather said he threw him into the forest, and into a ravine, and tied a balloon to him," Sanji says. He's back to wearing a black suit with a dark blue button-up shirt and light blue tie. "Were you with him during those times?"

"I was with Garp when he did those things," I nod, "but he never did that to me. Probably didn't think I would actually follow Luffy on the path of becoming a pirate, so I didn't need to learn how to fight. That's why I got Ace and Luffy to train me. To answer your question though, Robin, I am quite used to it, but that doesn't mean I don't long for relaxing moments like this. Even if it is a ton of fun to be on an adventure with Luffy."

"I'm sure that we'll be heading into another adventure soon," Robin softly smiles.

"That's true. We still need a musician," I chuckle.

"A musician?" Franky asks. He's still wearing a pair of black speedos, sunglasses, and a gold chain necklace, but he's changed his shirt to yellow button-up shirt (that is completely unbuttoned) with red trident like symbols on the sides and a giant one on the back.

"Luffy's been asking for a musician for as long as I've known him," Sanji grins. "That would be the next crewmate he would look for."

"We caught it!" Luffy's voice carries from outside. "We caught a cool shark!"

"Put it in!" Usopp orders, referring to the opening to the aquarium on the deck for this exact reason. "Put it in the fish tank!"

The four of us look at the fish tank to see the shark settle into the water. It looks like a normal shark besides the two horns coming out of its head.

"Here comes another one," Robin sets her empty mug on the table. "It's a shark."

"See!" Franky chuckles. "Isn't this a great room!?"

"Yeah, it's a great room, but those idiots put a shark in!" Sanji takes a drag of his cigarette.

"Do they realize that sharks eat fish?" I sigh, watching the shark going after all the other fish trapped in the tank with him. "All their hard work today is going to disappear before they know it."

The door to the room bursts open to reveal Luffy and Usopp with giant smiles on their faces.

"Hey!" Luffy exclaims. "Did the shark get in there!? The one with the huge horns!?"