Roar of the Sea, Apoo
With his binoculars, Morgans spotted a dry to the bone Habdurra slowly sinking into the sand. “Maybe fate really does exist! Crocodile and Jinbe were both powerful allies of Luffy’s in Impel Down and they have now defeated the false prophet who delivered the fruit to Strawhat! Me even thinks Crocodile should get a bounty raise for actually killing that leftover.”
Urouge asked, “Brother, what does Pantalone even mean?”
“It’s a term for the old merchant character in a play. He doesn’t even have to be rich but you always need some kind of senior aristocrat in the mix of things,” Heyritten responded.
At the ship, all the officers were all on board while Queen was foam mouthed on side of the deck. “You should just finish him,” Perona told the reclining Mihawk.
“Hey Cabaji,” he said to man at the helm, “swing around to the right side, Buggy’s in that part now.”
“Uh what about the in-coming gold?” Galdino asked.
“They haven’t even reached the town yet. Caesar go fly over there and tell Crocodile to meet us where Buggy is. Also tell him that Princess Vivi is lost in the mushrooms southwest of him.”
“What a laundry list,” he complained.
Over in a corner of the island was a vale, two rocky hills on either side of a flat passage. There was a few mushrooms here. One was walking and it seemed to be complaining, “a pirate should enjoy debauchery and fun. Not death inducing anxiety! I wonder if I should quit while I’m ahead. I could even fake my death and live out my days here…but then I’d miss the debauchery. And I’d have to do it onscreen or nobody will take it seriously…”
Slash! the mushroom top was cut in half and underneath was Buggy. He kept walking not caring about Apoo flexing in the background. It’s unbelievable this man came from that crew and that era.
\\Flashback//
Apoo is a kid with other people of his Longarm tribes. They play music and have fun. There’s a rap contest that kid Apoo wins. Then a loong dragon flies in with the royalty of the Kano Kingdom. Sitting upon is a younger King Ramen and [Naval Commander] Don Chinjao. There’s others in attendance on the dragon including a Ramen’s harem and other fierce looking warriors. The [Longarm Chief] Reccoman Mickey stood protectively in front of the others, “and what did you come here for, King?”
“I rule over five far apart islands, I need to make as many visits as possible-“
“Understood!”
“I forget you would interrupt me-“
“Understood! And that doofus still has a flathead,” he said mentioning Chinjao. “Haha, flathead!”
“Don’t make fun of me before I split your island!”
“Guys, chill out-“
“Understood!” Ramen stared at Mickey intently. Then Mickey started to shiver and freeze.
“Why did you take me literally? You can just be normal please.”
“Understood!”
We shift to a Chinese style tower where inside King Ramen is seated at a table including Chinjao, Mickey, Xingwu the Boxer (a three eyed man in the orange gi of a Tibetan monk), “Demon King” Humbaba (a regal but fat looking oni with prostitutes relaxing all over his body), and Yi the Admirable (a larger sized human with the turtle turtle devil fruit and blue color scheme). These are all commanders of each island that plead fealty to Kanokuni’s Ramen. Ramen told his party, “listen, I heard news of other islands in the area that the rascal by the name Gol D Roger is heading for our sea. I ask that each of you stay alert and cooperative so we can defend ourselves accordingly. Hopefully they will just sail by.”
Humbaba asked, “and what of the Navy? Isn’t Garp going to stop him?”
“I’ll stop Garp,” Chinjao announced.
“And this is just after Shiki left us, I wonder what he is looking for,” said Yi.
“Fuck the Navy,” Xingwu said, “and our reliance on the World Government needs to stop. The Reverie you just attended did nothing to prevent this or help us long term. With Shiki gone, we should just make Roger our ally.”
“Whoa, at least we knew Shiki,” Yi argued, “Roger is a complete stranger.”
“Mandarin retard, another pirate won’t solve our problem,” Mickey said, “we already have Chinjao and he just loses.”
“Do you want to test that hypothesis?” Chinjao asked.
“This is a weakness of the monarchy,” Humbaba said. “If any ruffian can just come in and threaten us then you must be replaced, Ramen,” the others were surprised by this demand.
Yi stood up, “how dare you say that!? Prostrate yourself! Your ancestors willingly joined the Kanokuni and trusted this dynasty. Such a request disobeys all of your ancestors.”
“What does he care? His race is only attracted to abhorrent hedonism,” Chinjao said.
“A pirate would know all about hedonism,” Humbaba struck back, “free to party however you like at sea, never worrying about the worries of the farmers and plight of regular workers that make your ships and feed your parties.”
“I don’t want to worry about such things,” a voice from a barrel said. They turned in shock. A servant knocked the barrel over and Apoo rolled out. He screamed.
Mickey snatched him, “Apoo, what’re you doing here? You can’t spy on a leader meeting.”
“I got lost, I’m sorry, honest!”
“Mickey, what’s he doing here?” asked Ramen.
Mickey threw him out the window and said, “the little chimp was just wondering when this will be over. What’s the strategy for Roger?”
Yi said, “let me handle scouting him and if he’s nice, we’ll arrange a safe passage through the country. He’s not all bad news so we may find a temporary alliance with him.”
“Then I will scout for Garp,” Chinjao said. “See, this has all been settled so you can go back to your parties, oni.”
Ramen slammed his fist on the table, “there will be no pointing out of each other’s races here. None of us are divinity, we are the same.”
Later… Apoo and Mickey are walking down the mountain. Apoo asks, “if Roger attacks, can I help in the battle?”
“No, what makes you think you could join in?”
“I have a devil fruit! And I’m already ten-“
“Understood! Wait, you have a devil fruit? Where did you find one??”
“Shiki, I stole it from him before he left. I can make sounds real, Chief.”
“Apoo! Devil Fruits are really dangerous, they’re only for pirates because the sea will drown them to punish their crimes against civility. And stealing from a pirate is even worse, it’ll bring you closer to being one.”
“But Chief, I wanna be a pirate. I like hedonism! It sounds like fun.”
“No way Apoo, you’re gonna live out on our island and die a regular Longarm man. You must promise not to leave your parents and the rest of the tribe behind…”
The next day, on Roger’s ship
Roger was hanging over the edge with Shanks and Buggy copying him. Ray told him, “why don’t you just beat them up?”
Roger sighed as he raised his head, “but they were so nice and their cuisine was really good. So we have to follow their little escort through their territory.”
“But you, yourself, said the voices were calling you to the Longarm’s island. That’s where the next Lode must be and then we can find the final island.”
Oden then stood up shouting, “never fear Captain, I will sneak away on a rowboat and conquer the island myself to retrieve the Lode.”
“You’re missing the part where we don’t want to conquer,” pointed out Gaban.
“Hey Captain,” Shanks said, “I remember the rubbing process. Me and Buggy can just sneak away and then catch up with you guys on the other side. We’ll look less threatening anyway.”
“Watch out Shanks,” Buggy said, “I never said I need your help to conquer the island.”
“You do need my help. Can you do a rubbing all of the sudden?”
“No, no conquering the island,” Gaban said in between their heads.
“I’ll have them carry the stone to the coast.”
“Alright, you both go,” Rogers said. “What’s the worse that could happen?”
Cut to annoyed Buggy and Shanks tied to crucifixes with Mickey presenting them to the dropped jaw of Roger. “What happened?”
“They almost killed everyone in a forest fire,” Mickey said.
“Maybe you shouldn’t have so much forest,” Buggy argued. “And Shanks didn’t follow my directions anyways.”
“No, it was my plan, you had the powers to-“
“Understood! The poor rice farmer and this clown are forgiven if you want to remain peaceful Roger. It’s important to our nation that your passage goes without any injuries.”
“I see. Well the turtle man did not let me fully explain, he just stuffed our bellies-“
“Understood! He’s a proud chef.”
“We gave him many thanks. I wanted to just visit this island to inspect a poneglyph I heard about.”
“…Misunderstood. What the fuck is a poneglyph?”
Rogers crew fell over in shock. Roger said, “it’s this huge rock with ancient inscriptions. Maybe it’s buried somewhere on the island. I can hear it.”
“Does it sound like singing voices?” Apoo asked.
“Oh yes! And who are you to be able to hear it?”
“I’m Apoo! I’ve been hearing a song nobodies singing ever since I ate my devil fruit.”
“I see, what a strange power. Can you take me to where you hear it most…”
Later, the last image is Mickey and Apoo waving goodbye to Roger’s ship in the horizon.
\\Flashback over//
Apoo punches Buggy into the ground. “Check it out, you were the clown and Shanks was the poor rice farmer I finally remembered from my childhood.”
Buggy flew away, “you didn’t remember that?? Are you stupid or something? I should’ve just burned the forest anyways.”
Apoo noticed Buggy’s feet stepping away. Apoo then made a sucking noise with his mouthing causing wind to blow Buggy back to Apoo who punched him back to the ground with armament. “Apapapapa, if Roger didn’t visit and later die, I would’ve never gone pirate. I would still be on that sweating island making mixtapes with the boys. Every decision I made led me here, that is destiny. Gods of Fate, give me no quarter!”
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