𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 ; 𝐑𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐚 𝐙𝐨𝐫𝐨 ✓ (UNDER EXTREME EDITING)

CHAPTER TWO

"That look on Alvida's face, I've never seen anyone stand up to her before." Koby said as he moved the oar against the ocean, rowing the boat. On the left, Luffy rowed the boat with him, while Miyu sat in the center and listened to their conversation.

"How did you stretch like that?" Koby couldn't help but ask, his mind still wondering how a human could be so stretchy. "He ate a weird fruit when he was a kid." Miyu answered replied to him, shrugging. "I wish I ate it."

Luffy explained to Koby what happened to him and how he became so stretchy, "I ate a Devil Fruit. But mine was the Gum Gum fruit. It turned my body into rubber,see?" He stuck his index finger in his mouth and stretched his cheek outwards before letting go.

"It can also do this." Miyu said with a grin, grabbing Luffy's skin. She stretched it as far as she could before letting go, causing his skin to slap back, hurting him. "Ow! Stop abusing me!" He cried in pain as he rubbed his arm. Miyu laughed loudly "I love hitting you!"

They always hit each other, in a joking way. It was their love language.

Koby glanced at the two, noticing how close they were with each other. "You two seem very close... How'd you meet?" Miyu looked at the boy, "we met as kids." Miyu answered quietly. She didn't want to go any further than that because it was a very traumatic moment in her life. Miyu met Luffy a day after she saw a father dead, and she didn't want to imagine the picture in her head.

"Where are we going?" Koby asked, adjusting his glasses. "We're going somewhere. Next stop, The Grand Line!" Luffy stood up on the boat, pointing his finger towards the horizon. "You know how to get there?" Koby got Luffy's attention. Luffy quickly sat back down and grabbed the oar, and continued to row the boat.

"Nope, we don't know where it is." Miyu answered him. She'll admit, it was pretty dumb to be on the sea without a map of some sort, but unfortunately their map was on their old boat, the one that sunk.

"you can't navigate. You don't even have a map!" Koby yelled at the two, finding them stupid for not bringing a map. "True."Miyu nodded in agreement "We should probably pick one up."

"Maybe I made a mistake. I never should've left Alvida." Koby said, full of regret. He looked down at his hands as his mind raced with thoughts. "You made the right decision." Miyu reassured him, "She was rude and controlling." Koby frowned, getting sad at the thought that we worked with such a woman.

Luffy decided to change the subject because of how uncomfortable Koby looked, "What's your dream, Koby?"Koby hesitated before answering his question "I want to be a Marine." Miyu looked at Koby "My mom was a Marine." Miyu added to the conversation. "Really?" Koby asked, surprised that a pirates mom was a marine since marine's jobs were to take down pirates.

"Yeah." Miyu nodded her head, her voice soft. "She was a good one too." As the memory of her mother ran through Miyu's mind, she started to get sad. Her mother went missing when Miyu was a child, no one knows what happened to her or if shes alive, but Miyu kept hope that her mom was just hiding somewhere.

"We'll help you become a Marine." Luffy said, a smile plastered on his face. "really?" Koby's blue eyes got wide with surprise. "yeah." Luffy replied to the boy. If Miyu and Luffy helped Koby to become a Marine, Koby would help the two find a map that will lead them to the One Piece, it was a good deal.

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"If a magnet was nearby, would his whole face get stuck on it?" Miyu wondered, staring at the large photo of Captain Morgan, The Marine Caption who was in charge of everything. "That would be so funny!" Luffy laughed, the image in his head.