Dodging Knives.
I stretched and yawned.
Wait..... something's off here.....
Let's see...... four paws, two tails, black fur, whiskers, and everything else is working....... wait..... I'm not a two tailed cat!!!
My body on the other hand begged to differ. I was exactly that and I knew I was just a kitten judging by how underdeveloped I was. I was still the size of a full grown house cat so I'd eventually get bigger.
I would have sat there and freaked out, if it wasn't for an angry chef that came out to see what I was meowing about.
He decided the best thing to do about it was throw a knife at me.
Thankfully my body reacted faster than I could and I jumped strait over him and jumped off his head to land on the roof.
Okay how did I do that?!
Now that my instincts thought I was safe I was free to freak out. I meowed many cusswords as I looked myself over and recognized where I was. I had somehow made it into the One Piece world, and I was on the Baratie.
I looked in the distance there was the Going Merry, 'Iron Fist' Fullbody's ship, and a cannon ball heading right towards me.
I quickly jumped again only to land right on top of Zeff.
His eyes widened and he said "A moon cat?
I tilted my head in confusion.
Moon cat? That's my species?
Before I could blink Zeff had me by the scruff of my neck.
I started struggling immediately, but he had me tightly and in a way I wouldn't be able to harm him even if I wasn't just flailing.
I wasn't paying attention to where we were going or who was around me until he cleared his throat.
I opened my eyes to see myself in front of Luffy.
He chuckled and said "That's a cool weird cat! Why does it have two tails?"
"That's none of your business. I'm going to go get rid of it." The old man grumbled.
I gulped when I heard that.
Am I seriously gonna be Chinese food within an hour of being turned into a cat?!
Luffy, bless his soul said "I want it! It's a cool mystery cat!"
"It's a danger to everyone. So I'm drowning it."
Okay.... that's bad too!
I squirmed all the harder and started hissing as many curses as I could in hopes that he'd magically understand them and drop me out of pure shock.
Luffy said "Come on old man! I already destroyed your roof! I don't want to owe you for that cat too!"
He starred at him in disbelief and said "That was your fault?"
He thought I broke his roof with a cannon ball?!?!?!
Luffy took advantage of his confusion and snatched me into his hands. I almost freaked out, but I settled for hissing in pain since he grabbed me by the neck and nearly throttled me.
Welllllll.... I may have also bit his hand and he flung me right at his boat in his surprise.
I don't know if it was his luck or mine, but I landed nicely in the crow's nest where no one was right now.
After calming down I heard the old man scream "You stupid Eggplant!!!!!"
I heard a loud crash and was thankful I wasn't Luffy right now.
I saw the other members of the crew go in so I decided to duck into the cargo hold. It was surprisingly easy to just jump from rope to rope before slipping past Johnny.
I was hungry so I sniffed out some dried meat, ate some, and found a hiding spot to take a nap in.
A few days past and I had made up a routine. If I was stowing away on the straw hat's ship I need to practice being a Moon Cat. I snuck around, hunted the ship's mice to extinction, and tested my body to it's limits.
Unfortunately it was getting difficult to stay unnoticed. The whole cargo hold was starting to smell like me and the crew was noticing. Zoro was so eager to capture me he started leaving traps around, but they wouldn't work on me. I'm not dumb enough to fall for mouse traps and snares. Although he was getting frustrated since I kept using the ship's supply of cabbage to set them off...... with smiley cat faces drawn on in paint using my left tail. I may have taken the paint from Ussop's bunk.
Soon enough both of them were trying to come up with different traps to capture me.
And then the day finally came. The ship started sailing and I knew Nami had stolen the Going Merry. I weaved my way through the traps before making my way to the kitchen. I sat on the table and waited for Nami to come in. My ears picked up her footsteps.
When she saw me we froze and we had a standoff.
She narrowed her eyes at me and said "Your that cat that keeps bugging the guys huh?"
I nodded as my tails waved lazily with the rocking of the ship.
Her eyes widened when she noticed them.
"Luffy said something about a cat with two tails that he accidentally threw! That was you!" She said pointing to me.
I nodded and gave her a cheery meow.
I don't like that 'I could sell you for a lot of money' look in her eyes......
She decided to step closer and try to keep me calm by babying me.
"Come here kitty kitty......"
She pounced so I jumped up and landed on her head before bounding out the open door.
Why does everyone want to catch me?!
I dodged her easily as she scrambled after me. Every time she jumped towards me I'd hit her in the head. I led her to the railing and she ran towards me. She slammed into it when I dodged her. I kicked her in the head on my way down.
She grumbled "No wonder they couldn't catch him. He's a cheeky little bastard!"
Well at least I'm not some stupid witch.
I started licking my paw as she finally started thinking out a plan. I saw she brought out some food. She walked away from it and started doing ship stuff. It didn't look all that important, plus I knew the food was drugged.
I decided to mess with her. I walked up with fake caution and took a bite, but didn't chew or swallow. I walked back over, pretending to be drunk and slumped over.
She cheered and quickly came over to me. As soon as she reached down to me I spit the food in her face and raced up the rope to the crow's nest. She screamed "I'm going to skin you alive when I...... where did it go?"
Yes! I got her in the eyes! Time for operation dive bomb of greatness!
I hopped up to the edge of the glorified bucket I was in and looked to where Nami was.
She was looking around. I jumped and meowed mid fall.
She looked up with wide eyes as I landed on her face with my claws extended.
She managed to block with her arms, but I imagine it still hurt when I landed, ripped out my claws, and ran for my life once again.
I managed to give her the slip in the cargo hold.
I chuckled when I heard her tripping several of the crazy traps trying to find me.
Unfortunately that was enough for her to find me. She took no chances and pinned me down by the gut with her bow staff.
I struggled, but she had it just tight enough to where I couldn't move. Then again it wasn't hard enough to hurt, so I guess I would live.
I noticed she had thick leather gloves on as she picked me up and firmly held me at just the right distance away.
Ugh..... she got me..... oh well.... one last thing to do!
I pointed both my paws upwards and extended only my middle claws. Judging by the indignation on her face she understood the gesture.
"I don't know what kind of hell cat you are, but if I know anything about weird animals like you, you go for a lot of berri."
I started nibbling her finger in my annoyance. I really hated being held like this and I was still pissed off I was forced into this situation anyway.
Then again, I was still a kitten, so my teeth had no chance in hell getting through her gloves. I did slobber them up nicely though.
She rolled her eyes and put me in the cage Ussop had prepared. It was incredibly well made and didn't have a latch or a lock to pick. It was a combination lock that I hadn't heard the combination to yet.
She decided to at least let me out on the deck while she sailed. I glared at her, but with my kitten face she wasn't really bothered by it.
I started pacing nervously in the cage.
We made it to Arlong park really fast. That fact didn't help to calm me down.
Thankfully Arlong himself was out as Nami came in. She brought me over to Hatchi.
"Hatchi, this is a rare animal I want you to tame so we can sell it. Understand?" She said with no emotion in her voice.
He smiled and said "Sounds like a plan Nami! Let me see.... a cat with two tails? That's weird. I'll have it tame in no time flat!"
I hissed at him as she handed my cage over.
"The combination to the lock is 543. Be careful with this little pest. He's pretty sneaky for a cat." She warned before leaving.
She knows I'm smart enough to understand people..... is there some kind of trap on this cage?
Hatchi, being a dumbass, used the combination. Both of us heard a click before we were both covered by red smoke that burned my lungs and throat.
Chili powder bombs?! Seriously?!
In his surprise he dropped the cage and the lock broke. Unfortunately I was more affected by the noxious powder. I couldn't see anything or move for who knows how long.
When I finally recovered I was in a new cage with a regular latch and Hatchi was nowhere to be found.
Thank the gods he's an idiot!
I slipped my left tail between the bars and flipped open the latch. I ran out of the building I was being kept in to run into Zorro standing over several dead fishmen.
We starred at each other before he said "Stupid cat. Beat it."
I rolled my eyes and padded up to a nearby fishman. I sniffed him, but he didn't smell that appetizing.
Zorro tried to shoo me off with his scabbard when I had a fun idea.
I dipped my tail in the blood and drew my mark.
He immediately recognized it and unsheathed his sword.
"So you're that cat huh?! I'm gonna slice you to ribbons!"
He tried slashing me, but it was easy to dodge out of his way.
"What?!"
He tried again, I dodged. He tried swinging faster. I was having fun dodging his slashes.
He got tired and finally stopped panting.
I quickly wrote with my tail "Try again when you're healed!" Before running to the gate, jumping over, and running to the scent of oranges.
I snuck into the orchard and waited.
After Nami left I did my plan. I made the whole orchard look like it was dug up. It was hard, me being a cat and all, but I finished in time to hide from the marines.
The mouse marine shouted "What's all this?!?! I expected some of the dirt to look digged up but it'll take days to find the treasure in this orchard!"
Nami caught up and said "What?!"
Then I jumped down, still covered in dirt.
I shook myself off and laughed at everyone's faces.
The mouse got angry and said "Someone catch and kill that cat for interfering with the marines!"
I flipped them the bird before running off at full speed to the going merry.
When I made it into the cargo hold I ate a piece of meat and passed out in a new hiding spot.
I was awoken by a loud crash and Luffy's declaration of "Nami! You are my Nakama!"
I smiled and went back to sleep. I was still a tired kitten after all.
Once I woke up again it was dark, but I heard plenty of commotion going on outside.
I saw a wild party going on outside. I smirked and dashed off towards it. I slipped between countless legs as I snuck bits of food from different tables.
I eventually found Zorro and Ussop sitting together drunk off their asses.
When I got in front of them Zorro yelled "That stupid cat!"
He tried to grab me but I jumped up and smacked him with my tail before meowing "I said try again when you're healed dumbass!"
Despite him not getting my words, he seemed to get I wasn't here to piss him off.
He slumped in his seat and said "Fine. You can stay for now. But once this party's over I'm cutting you to ribbons."
Ussop asked "What are you talking about? It's just a cat!"
I made my mark on the table in ketchup before liking the excess off my tail.
Ussop growled and said "You!!!!!"
Zorro stopped him and said "Trust me, the cat's fast enough to dodge my swords pretty well. I doubt you'd do more than annoy it."
I smirked and nodded before jumping away from the rubber band he launched at me anyway.
I landed right on his head and put my claws right in his face.
He froze.
I gently made a cut on his cheek before I jumped back to where I was before.
I licked my claw of his blood slowly and licked my lips. He shivered and got the message.
Zorro mumbled "Demon cat."
"Moss head bastard" I answered back.
I leapt off the table and decided to annoy someone..... ok maybe everyone else.
I ruined foods, I scratched up decorations, and I pissed in a punch bowl or two.
I was having fun getting chased around by angry party goers in no time.
I sang merrily as they chased me "Every party needs a pooper that's why they invited me! Party pooper! Party pooper!"
No one really appreciated my singing though.
I was once again dodging knives as they were thrown at me.
I wonder if this'll be a daily occurrence.....
A couple days later the partying ended and I had to sneak back aboard the ship. Thankfully I was getting good at it.
Shortly after we started sailing I knew now would be the perfect time to have some fun.
I slipped out onto the deck and saw everyone doing their own business and not paying attention to me.
I walked over to Luffy, who was sitting on the figurehead, and started tickling him with my tails.
He burst out laughing getting everyone's attention.
Three out of four of the other crew members angrily yelled "That damn cat!"
I turned to the others while still tickling Luffy and meowed "Hello muthafuckas!"
I jumped up and started climbing up the ropes before any of those pachinko managed to peg me.
Luffy saw me and gasped "The cool two tailed cat!"
I landed next to Zorro and jumped back away at the last second so that Ussop shot him.
Zorro yelled "Watch where you're aiming!"
I chuckled as they started butting heads.
Nami tried to pin me with her staff again, but I wouldn't fall for that trick twice.
I jumped on top of the pole before launching myself towards the cook.
He eyed me warily.
I jumped up and slapped his cigarette out of his mouth while my tail fished out his stash of smokes from his front pocket.
He starred at me in anger before he saw what was in my tail.
He felt for his smokes to confirm I took them.
I looked him strait in the eyes before I whipped my tail and sent them overboard.
I laughed madly as all of the Straw hats started chasing me around the ship. Each for their own reasons. Most of them for hatred, one because he thought I was cool, and another to sell me off to the highest bidder.
Luckily it was easy to get them to start hitting each other by accident and I lost them in the crow's nest.
"Where did that demon cat go?!" Zorro yelled.
Luffy asked "Demon cat?"
Ussop growled "Yeah! He stole from me, taunted us with his mark for days, and ruined the party!"
Zorro butted in "He even mocked me for being wounded and not being able to cut him!"
Nami said "I don't even want to go into detail on what he did to me on my way here."
"And you literally just saw him throw all my cigarettes into the ocean!"
They all answered "How does that not make him a demon?!"
Luffy said "Yeah, but did you see what else he did?"
The others were silent.
Luffy spoke up "First off, he got rid of all the mice. Didn't you guys notice?"
I heard them murmuring.
"Second...... he really challenged you two trying to think up a way to catch him right?"
The others stayed silent.
"Third..... I saw what he did to hide Nami's treasure."
Ussop asked "What did that cat do?"
Nami answered "He...... he dug up all the dirt in the orchard to make it impossible to tell where I buried it. He was coated in dirt."
Luffy butted in "Plus it seems like most of the time he was just trying to get people's attention. He never ruined or stole anything that couldn't be replaced. The rest he was helping us. I don't know why he likes getting chased soo much, but he does......"
That's when I landed in front of him tearing up.
I screeched "Why do you have to be soo smart sometimes you dumbass!"
I ran up to his and started slashing away with my claws. He just stood there and took it as I wailed on him. The frustration I had been holding back.
All my emotion concerning me coming here, losing my family, and being robbed of my humanity I took out on him.
After I was finished I was covered in Luffy's blood, but he hadn't budged an inch.
I still cried, but I was tired. I curled up in Luffy's lap and he started stroking me.
He whispered "He's not a demon. He's our Nakama and that's final."
That was the last I heard before I fell asleep again.
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