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Blown Away Ch2

Sweet Dreams Are Made of These

I am a mix of Australian, Canadian and Hungarian. I will use quite a bit of Aussie slang since I grew up here, with smatterings of Canadian slang and words in Hungarian. I will include an explanation and translations at the end of the chapter for less confusion.

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So somehow we both fit in that barrel… It's pitch black and unbelievably uncomfortable, we're wedged tightly in a tangled mess of limbs, Luffy’s elbow is firmly lodged in my ribs and his foot is in my face. How? Idk rubber man logic.

With all the chaos I’ve honestly lost track of time and couldn't tell you how long we’re in there. I have no words to truly describe the experience, but I imagine it's not dissimilar to being in a washing machine on a roller coaster designed by a madman.

Finally the violent movement stops, feeling the barrel gently bobbing in the water, I let out a sigh of relief.

Luffy's voice pipes up after a few moments. I squint into the darkness, trying to make out his face. “So Tahi, why were you out in the middle of the ocean?” “Honestly, I have no idea, one moment I was in the middle of a storm on my way home and the next thing I know I’m waking up in the middle of the ocean, meeting you.” I attempt to shrug, unsuccessfully. I probably got knocked out by flying debris and my concussed ass is dreaming or hallucinating..Let's go along with it and see how this goes. I've had some pretty detailed and in depth conversations while dreaming.*

“Wow! That's so weird, do you know how to get back?” He laughs at me.

“Eh, not really, but c’est la vie” I again attempt to shrug unsuccessfully. “How ‘bout you, you said I'm your first crew member? Is that really true?” I mean with the whirlpool we're probably up to the whole Alvida thing.

“Shishishi yeah, I just set out from Dawn Island today! I made a promise to a friend a while back that I'd set out, gather a crew, find the One Piece and become King of the Pirates!”

I go to reply but am cut off by the barrel being jostled, the sensation of a rising elevator washing over me, then stops, muffled voices and the barrel tips over and starts rolling.The dizziness that had almost subsided comes back, thankfully the rolling stops soon enough and I hear more muffled voices outside. I feel Luffy shift and wriggle.

“Wha-” I’m falling on my arse as the barrel explodes around me, Luffy jumping out with a yell. I let myself just flob on the ground, attempting to regain my equilibrium.

“Looks like we survived! I got so dizzy I thought I was gonna barf! Shishishi”

“I feel like-urgh-might still..” I groan from the ground my arm over my eyes in an attempt to quell the vertigo.

“Shishishi silly you'll catch a cold sleeping on the floor!” Luffy laughs at me.

“Aye aye mon capitan” I groan, giving a lazy wave and dragging myself to my feet.

Once I'm standing I take notice of three imposing men and a bespectacled tween? Pink hair and round glasses, I'm guessing that's Coby? standing around us

“Huh who the hell are you guys?/Nice day we're having ain't it?” Both Luffy and I ask at the same time.

“WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?!?” they shout back in shock and anger,ignoring my question “And what the fuck were you doing in that barrel!?”

“Seemed like as good a place as any to take a nap” I shrug, these guys are annoying so I'll be annoying right back. Luffy seems to find it amusing so it works.

“Are you messing with us, when you know good and well that we're vicious pirates!” The guy with long greyish hair and tattoos points a cutlass at me. Oooh scary, what are you gonna do, dream pirate dude, stab me?

“Hey I'm starving, got any food” Luffy asks the teen ignoring the pirates. At the mention of food I'm suddenly ravenous.

“Oh hell yeah, I could totally eat!” Did I remember to eat today? I can't remember, I was sucked into crafting for most of the day, I'm surprised I even thought of going to the beach, my crafting moods can last days..

“Fuckers! don't you dare ignore us!” He yells, bringing his sword down. Some instinct telling me to move, I twist out of the way, but not soon enough. I feel a cold sting across my cheek and my heart plummets into the pit of my stomach as pain blooms across my face. I slowly reach up and touch my right cheek, hissing as it burns like the worst paper cut and see my fingers bloodied. Ow fuck that hurts! Wait… When did dreams have pain…I stare at the blood on my fingers. Oh... this isn't a dream. I blink. Oh my god this isn't a dream!! My eyes go wide. This isn't a dream and there's a very angry pirate trying to kill me right now!

“Ohh shit!” I dodge as tattoo guy goes in for another swing at my head. Focus on not dying now, existential crisis after. I can't help but feel grateful for my mum teaching me some basic self defence shit. So I stand straight, make myself look tall and imposing, Look the man in the eyes and pull deep from my core.

“woof.”

The pirate stops short mid swing, confused. This is embarrassing.. “Woof!” If this doesn't work it's going to be the most embarrassing way to die…I growl, deep and low, clenching my teeth I just need to freak him out enough to back off. Come on LOUDER! “WOOF!” he takes a step back, looking at me like I've lost it. It's working! “Grrr! WOOF! Grr! WOOF WOOF! Grr! WOOF!” I go all out, putting my all into this feral dog impression. I step forward for each step back he takes. I widen my eyes, bear my teeth, snarling, barking and snapping at him. The fact that this is a legitimate self defence technique… The pirate keeps backing away, he's looking around, Luffy has already knocked out the other two pirates and (maybe)Coby has hidden himself somewhere. With no backup in sight he looks back at me, his face going through several emotions, then settles on resolve and determination. He takes a breath, tightens his grip on his weapon and… turns on his heel, running away. Yelling “Crazy bitch!” over his shoulder as he retreats. I continue to growl and bark until he's out of sight.

I stand there, This is the first time I've been in an actual fight. It was so fucking scary!! I'm panting, trying to catch my breath, anxiety coiled tight like a spring, ready to snap…

A hand slaps down on my shoulder making me jump a mile high. Swinging my head around fast enough to give myself whiplash, I see Luffy, doubled over one hand gripping my shoulder, the other clutching his side, laughing so hard tears are rolling down his face.

“W-why were you hahaha b-barking? Ahahahaha! And that guy just ran away! That's s-so stupid! Ahahahaha!” He gasps out.

I take a shaky breath, then register what he said. I cross my arms indignantly, “It-it worked didn't it?” I say tilting my head snootily, that was the least lethal way I know how to defend myself... aside from shitting myself and throwing it at the aggressor… no way in hell am I ever doing that! Never! I shiver, disgusted at the thought. I really need to learn how to defend myself, dream or not. I sigh. Right, this..this isn't a dream..and I really need to learn how to fight, there's gonna be way scarier guys after us and I've already committed to this shitshow.. I uncross my arms, turning to face Luffy “I have pretty much zero fighting experience, so I'll need some help and until I learn to fight I'll need you to watch my ass, kay Cap’n?” I say with a smile.

“Of course! It's the captain's job to look after his crew after all!” His big black eyes are so earnest as he nods determinedly, throwing his arm over my shoulders.

“Thanks” I nod, patting his head appreciatively.

“So…” A voice behind Luffy squeaks out. We turn around and I get a proper look at the kid. He's pretty short, a whole head shorter than me, he's wearing a white button up shirt with navy blue accents and black pants, his pink hair is combed neatly, although it seems to have grown out of the intended style, he’s staring at us dazed. His whole getup screams Navy fanboy, but he really needs to develop a backbone if he wants to survive in the military..

“What just happened?” (definitely)Coby mumbles.

“You got me/No fucking clue” Luffy and I answer in tandem.

Coby gasps with a look of dawning terror “Quick! You’ve got to run!” he shouts “If those guys come back here with their buddies, then they'll kill you both on the spot!” A loud rumble echoes through the hallway. My cheeks go red, Luffy laughs

“Yeah, I don't care about that! I'm hungry, and so is Tahi!” Luffy crosses his arms.

“How can you just blow this off like that!? There are hundreds of them up on deck and they're waiting for the opportunity to kill anything!” Luffy just starts walking away, I follow and Coby is dragged along.

“You're going the wrong way! No! Wait!”

It takes us no time at all to find the food storage.

“It's a gold mine!” Luffy laughs in delight,leaving Coby at the door “Food! Food! Food! Food! Food!” He jumps down into the, uh pit? space? basement? starting to rummage, I grin following him down using the ladder. I hear Coby mutter something to himself as he quietly shuts the door, looking anxious. ”This looks promising!”I hear Luffy crack open a box and peer over his shoulder” Apples! Excellent!” He laughs, stuffing his face.”Heh, Tasty!”

“Yoink!” I grin, snagging an apple, biting into it hungrily. Mmm! He's right, these are pretty good! I pocket two more, finishing the first as I turn my attention to other boxes.

“Uh… Hey! My name's Coby. You're Luffy and she's Tahi? Is that right?” Coby introduces himself, timidly, “I’m Tahere, friends and family call me Tahi.” I give a friendly smile “also not a she, at least today. I'm gender fluid. Right now I'm feeling He/Him pronouns.” Luffy looks confused while Coby nods. I turn back to rummaging through boxes.”If you're unsure just ask and I don't mind people making mistakes, it can be hard to keep up with since how I feel changes with the weather.”

“Got it” Coby nods, then fidgets “That was pretty neat when you guys jumped out of that barrel back there.”

“I mostly fell on my ass” I shrug, having found a pry bar leaning on the wall, start using it to open some of the boxes around me.

Mostly finding ingredients and stuff like flour, vegetables that need to be cooked and some lace tablecloths, not exactly useful when we're gonna end up in a small row boat, if the tablecloths were simple cloth I could salvage them for scrap cloth and diy bandages.. I keep looking, Luffy and Coby are chatting by the apple crate as Luffy eats. I hear Luffy telling Coby about us being dragged into the whirlpool making me shudder, remembering the damn thing. I never want to ride on the Vomitron 3000 again, thank you very much. I half listen to the conversation as I continue my search.

“The big one outside!? No way! No one could've survived that!” Coby terrified exclamation draws my attention from a box of cutlery, where I had found some sharp knives.

“Yeah, I gotta say it was a big surprise!” Luffy laughs.

“It seriously sucked… Pun unintended” I mumble distractedly sending Luffy into a fit of giggles. This is cool! These have protective sheaths. I grin, tucking a couple small knives into various pockets, making sure one is in the inside pocket of my denim jacket.

“So are you one of the pirates or one of the passengers?” Luffy asks.

“Uhm well.. it's a bit complicated…it was on a fateful day, long ago…” Coby starts telling us his tragic backstory. “I stepped out onto a small fishing boat on the outskirts of town to catch my dinner” I listen as I'm squirreling away anything useful.“Turns out that particular boat was actually headed for a pirate ship!”

So far, aside from the knives, I've found a couple cans of fruit, some granola bars and a packet of crackers. I put the granola bars into my jacket, shoving the rest randomly into the many pockets of my cargo pants. I'm so happy I decided to wear these when I went out to storm watch. Out of all the things to be Isekai-ed in they are both practical and comfy! Only wish I had my paratroopers, I'm fine booting around in thongs** but they're not really practical for running or fighting…

“In exchange for them letting me live, I'm forced to live the life of a cabin boy.”

I look around seeing if they have a first aid kit but come up empty handed, I make my way back to the boys sitting on the floor next to Luffy.

“You're pretty stupid, you know that?” Luffy says bluntly.

“Gee thanks for your honesty.” Coby’s dejected reply has me reaching over and patting his shoulder sympathetically.

“Why didn't you leave?” I ask.

“Are you kidding!? I can't do that! No way!Nuh-huh! Not a chance!” Coby exclaims, shaking his head “Just the thought of Alvida finding me scares me so bad, I wanna throw up!”

“You're a moron and a coward!” Luffy laughs, “I hate people like you!” I see Coby tear up.

“Luffy, that's rude!” I admonish. “Although I agree, you can't complain about your situation if you're not brave enough to even try to change it.”

“You're right.. If I had the courage I could drift along in a barrel and be rid of these pirates..I actually have my own dreams” He has a small, wistful smile as he continues “Someday…I'd like to live out of all of them.” He straightens up “so.. what about you guys? What was it that first got you to set sail on these seas?”

“Well, I'm going to be the King of the Pirates!” Luffy says casually, Coby’s jaw drops at the proclamation.

“The King!?”

“Yep.”

“Are you serious!?”

“Yeah.”

“But..but that would mean you're a pirate, too!”

“Right.”

“ Yeah”

“And your crew?”

“Just added my first mate!” Luffy points at me.

“And you! You're ok with this!?” Coby turns to me, shocked.

“Sure am! I didn't exactly leave home on my own accord, but c’est la vie. And I haven't figured out what my dream is yet, which is ok.” I shrug. “Sometimes you just need to take that first step without knowing the destination.” looking over at Luffy, who grins when our eyes meet. “I guess right now my dream is to find a dream” Coby freezes, mouth open. “I think we broke the kid…” I snort, snapping my fingers in his face, with no reaction.

I turn to ask Luffy something when Coby jumps to his feet shouting. “You're both nuts! What do you mean your dream is to find a dream!? That makes no sense! And you!” He points an accusatory finger at Luffy “King of the Pirates is a title given to one who obtains everything this world has to offer! You're talking about seeking the great treasure of wealth, fame and power. The treasure that you seek is the One Piece!”

“Yeah! Luffy says happily.

“Yeah!? That's it? Pirates from all over the world are looking for that treasure, ya know!?”

“Yeah, so?”

“No way! It's impossible, impossible, impossible!” Coby yells, shaking his head. “There's no way anyone like you could ever reach the pinnacle during this great pirate age! There's just too many out there that are meaner and better!” Luffy gives him a firm bop to the head.”Ow… Why did you hit me?”

“Cause I felt like it”

Coby groans “Oh well.. I'm used to that stuff.. my ship mates smack me around a lot..all the time in fact.” geez this kid’s had it rough…

“It's not about if I can.” Luffy ignores him. “I'm doing this because I want to.” He takes his hat off, smiling as he looks at it in his hand “I decided long ago that I'm gonna be King of the Pirates. If I have to die fighting for that… then I die.” He states matter of factly, “All right… Now that my belly’s full, I'm gonna get me a brand new boat.” he puts his hat back on and starts walking away, with me following. “They might even give us one if I ask nice enough.”

“Luffy, these guys don't seem like the generous giving types.. You'll probably have to kick their asses to get one.” I chuckle. “Hey, what kind of person do you want to add to the crew next?”

“Hmm.. well I definitely need a cook and maybe a musician to keep us entertained!”

“Yeah, that makes sense. We'll also need a navigator, I'm not bad at land navigation but zero experience on the sea.”

“Yeah!”

“Can I do something like that?” Coby asks from behind us. I look over my shoulders at him.

“Huh? Like what?” Luffy turns around.

“Do you think.. Do you think I could ever join the marines?”

“Marines?”

“Yes! Catching bad guys is the only thing I've ever wanted to do!” He shouts passionately. “It's been my dream since I was a child! Do you think I can do it?”

“How should I know that?”

“Then I'm gonna do it! I'm not gonna get stuck here as a cabin boy for the rest of my life!” He starts stomping forward as he yells. “I'll break out, then I'll turn right around and catch Alvida myself!” As he says that the roof is smashed in kicking up a cloud of dust.

“Who is that you plan on catching Coby?” As the dust settles we see a large woman in a cowboy hat and holding a spiked club “And you actually think these brats are gonna help you? Well?” She looms over Coby, who is shaking like a leaf “ Answer me!” She booms. I jump as a bunch of blades pierce the door behind me. “My guess is that you're not Zoro, the pirate hunter.”

“Zoro?”

“Coby!” Alvida stands there grinning “ Who is the most beautiful of all the seas?”

“Well… I…Um…Gimme a sec… I know this..” He stammers

“Hey Coby, who's the fat lady?”

“Seriously most beautiful, More like most delusional..” I say, feeling very safe next to my captain. I nearly start cackling at the shocked and horrified looks on everyone else's faces.

Growls in anger, lifting her club “You…Runt!” She screams as she brings it down. Luffy and I dodging out of the way, Luffy, landing across the room, crouched down in front of Coby.

“Let's go,” He grins, grabbing me and Coby he jumps out of the hole Alvida made, right into a crowd of angry pirates…

“Fuuuuuuck! Shit! Kurva! Mutherfucking! Picsa! Cunt! Bosmeg! ” I scream,doing my best to dodge and weave as pirates try to cut me to ribbons. One grabs me from behind.

“You!” He turns us to face Luffy. “Stand down or the lady gets it!”

“I am not a lady!” I stomp on his foot and slam the back of my head into his nose, to finish off I perform the grab twist and pull. The pirate lets out a girlish scream as he collapses holding his nads. “It’s he/him pronouns today.” I nod to myself dusting off my hands only to duck as a blade cuts through the space where my head was previously. A pirate coming right up in my face, on instinct I shove my hand out and up. Crushing his nose with the palm of my hand, he collapses, twitching, bloody foam coming from his mouth… I think I just killed that guy… I don't have time to dwell on that as I'm dodging more swords. I've completely lost track of luffy, and down another guy with an accidental headbutt. I get a moment of reprieve as a guy is thrown into the crowd attacking us. I take the distraction to put some distance between me and the pirates, only for Luffy to bring a mob towards me as he runs from them. “God fucking damnit!” I exclaim, following him. From the corner of my eye I see Luffy grab the mast as he keeps running, his arm stretching behind us. I notice his cheeky grin as he meets my eyes running in place for a moment before turning to the pirates behind us.

“Gotcha!” The pirates start running away. “Gum… Gum…Rocket!” Then he's hurtling back towards the pirates like a torpedo, taking pretty much all of them, except Alvida, out in one hit.

“Tha-that… was… awesome!” I'm panting, leant over hands on knees, trying to catch my breath.

“L-Luffy…What are you?” Coby asks, frightened.

“Oh… I'm a rubber man.” He pulls his cheek for emphasis. I make my way over.

“So you're… made of rubber…?”

“He ate a devil fruit. Though it's not really common here in the east blue, there's tons of people on the grand line that have eaten them.” I notice Alvida standing behind Coby.

“Devil fruit huh.. I heard they existed but never seen proof before today.” She says contemplatively. “You're more skilled than the average deck swabber. And you.” She turns her attention to me. “You took out three of my men with little effort.” What do you mean ‘little effort’!? I nearly died.. a lot! “Are you two bounty hunters?”

“We're pirates! I just added my first crew mate today so it's official!” Luffy says straightforwardly, looping his arm over my shoulder and pointing at me for emphasis.

“Pirates? Hah all by yourselves, just the two of you, on these waters?”

“These waters? Lady, we're in the east blue. The most peaceful of all the seas.” I roll my eyes. “ Plus I have faith in my captain to steer us where we need to go, a crew of two is still a crew” Huh.. I really do have faith in this dork. And not just because of the show. I look at him, standing tall and unflinching in the face of the hulking monster of a woman. He talks with such confidence that you can't help but believe him and trust in his word.

“Yeah! A crew’s a crew, so what if it's just me and Tahi today? We'll find more crewmates tomorrow, or next week, or something.” He says casually “I need… I dunno, like ten guys..Yeah, ten.”

“Hah!” Alvida scoffs “Tell me… if we're both pirates, and we're not under the same flag, then that would make us enemies.” She says with a nasty leer. “Am I right?”

“Uh, Luffy, Tahi… Let's go.” Coby whispers to us anxiously.

”But why?”

“You saw how powerful her club is…And of all the villainous cheats in all these waters she's easily the most-” Coby cuts himself short, staring into Luffy's eyes. I smile, seeing him come to an epiphany.

“Go on…” Alvida prompts smugly. “Tell me.” Resolve and determination light Coby's eyes as he yells.

You're the most… UGLIEST THING ON THE SEA!” Luffy is laughing uproariously, I let out a few snickers. Coby has his eyes squeezed shut tightly, tears pricking the edges, waiting to be struck. I pat his shoulder, causing him to jump, but I just smile, proudly.

“What’d you say!?” Alvida gets out past(or through?) clenched teeth. Coby steps forward meeting her eyes.

“I'm leaving and I'm gonna join the marines! Then I'm gonna spend the rest of my life beating up dirty pirates like you!” Luffy is still laughing next to me and I'm smiling so hard I might crack a tooth.

“Do you have any clue what you're saying to me right now!?”

“Of course I do! and I'm gonna do what I want and no one's gonna stop me! And when I join the marines, I'm gonna join them! AND I'M GONNA CATCH YOUR LOUSY ASS FIRST!” He screams the last part, two years of pent up fear and frustration boiling over.

“You're dead, kid!” Alvida lifts her club with both hands, intent on crushing Coby. Luffy and I jump into action.

“That was great, Cobester!” Still grinning, I grab Coby Pulling him back behind me.

“Well said!” Luffy dashes forward between us and Alvida. Her club slams down on his head, springing off him harmlessly. “Heh. That won't work.” he said in a sing-song voice.

“What!?”

“I'm rubber!” Luffy smacks her club to the side as if it was made of paper not steel. He pulls his arm back, letting it stretch back for a fair bit “Gum…Gum…Pistol!” With the sound of a plucked guitar string he lands a punch so powerful it sends Alvida’s huge form flying into the horizon. I put my hands up.

“SCORE!” I shout in my best referee impression.

“Hey you!” Luffy calls out to some of Alvida's men who were still conscious.

“Yes!”

“Go find a boat and give it to Coby. He's leaving your ship to join the marines; you're not gonna stop him.”

“Also load up a couple barrels of food and water while you're at it!” I pipe in.

“Yeah… sure!” The move into action.

“Thanks, Luffy.” Coby says gratefully. “And you too Tahi.” I hear a couple bangs and a whistling sound, then the whole ship is rocking as cannonballs land around us, knocking me over, falling hard on my ass. Looking over the railing, I spot some marine ships.

“Looks like the marines arrived…” I say as I get to my feet.

“Ooh! Perfect timing” Luffy says gleefully. “Head over there and tell them you wanna join.”

“Huh?”

“But I'm a pirate so I'm outta here!” He jumps down to the lower deck. “You coming Tahi?”

“Yeah right behind you” I sit on the railing and jump down. I land hard and need a moment to shake it off as I follow my captain to our new boat.

“No, wait! you can't be serious!” Coby yells panicked “ I approach them like this, they'll just capture me like another pirate!”

“Kay I gotcha.” Luffy stretches out and grabs Coby, who screams as he shoots towards us. “Ready to set sail!” with the assistance of the lingering pirates to launch the boat, we land in the water with a splash. Luffy and I start rowing at top speed. I never thought two years of dragon boat racing would end up being actually useful. We're able to escape the marines in one piece, I fall backwards exhausted, while I have the experience, that doesn't mean I have the stamina.. I stare up into the sky, watching clouds float by lazily.

“We actually managed to get away!” Coby exclaims elated.

“Ah.” Luffy sighs, sitting next to me with a relaxed grin. “What fun!”

“Yeah...fun…” I snort sprawled out like a cat.

“So, Luffy.” Coby interjects.

“Huh?”

“If you're searching for the elusive One Piece, then you have to be headed for the Grand Line right?”

“Mhm., yeah”

“You know the people I've talked to call that place the Pirate Graveyard.”

“Ehh, it's not as scary as the rumours say it is.” I say lazily.

“Wait, have you been?” Coby asks.

“Not exactly, but I know quite a bit about it from first hand accounts I've read” technically true since it follows the strawhats adventure directly. “The first half, Paradise isn't too bad. There are a few Warlords set up there, Crocodile, Moria, maybe Kuma? He kinda just bounces around depending on who needs him for what.. but it's pretty chill. The New World, the second half, is were things get a bit crazy. The weather is insane and the people there are crazy strong. All of the four emperors have territories there and a few warlords too.” I'm starting to feel kinda sleepy.. The warm rays and gentle sea, lulling me into a near sleep.

“That sounds so exciting!” Luffy wriggles in anticipation. “I didn't know you knew so much about the grand line! That's so cool! We'll need an extra strong crew!”

“What about Tahi?” Coby asks

“I'm working on it. And not every member has to be a powerhouse right off the bat, eh cap’n.”

“Yeah, you're right. But you know, you didn't do too bad against those guys! That whole barking thing was hilarious!” He laughs, then turns to Coby. “you mentioned some pirate hunter. So what's he like?”

“Oh, you mean Zoro? Last I Heard Was That he’s being held prisoner at some Marine base.”

“Oh, well…A weakling, huh?”

“No! You're so wrong!” Coby shouts “He's as violent as a demon, and three times as horrifying!” he pauses. “Why are you asking about him anyway?”

“I figure if he's good enough I'll ask him to join my crew!”

“Chasing him down is just plain reckless!”

“You never know, he might jump at the chance to join me.”

“He's a bad enough guy that the marines caught him!” He's so worked up the boat starts to rock. “No way! Not a chance!” I sit up watching Coby freak out “Forget it! No, no n-” I take a thong off and throw it catching Coby square in the face just as Luffy bops him on the head.”Ow! Why’d you guys do that!”

“Cause I felt like it.”

“If you keep freaking out like that you're gonna capsize the boat.” I retrieve my thong, sliding it back on my foot and plopping down next to Luffy, resting my head on his shoulder. “Sleepy…” I yawn as Luffy laughs.

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*This is true. I have super vivid dreams that get super detailed. I wrote a few of them down, but got lazy lol. One of the ones that stuck with me was casually discussing the politics around Opium with Lau from kuroshitsuji. I don't even remember the specifics but I do remember enjoying the conversation, that was a fun dream lol.

** When talking about “Thongs”I am not talking about underwear, I'm talking about flip flops or jandals. Sometimes we call the underwear a thong or G-string.

With my Hungarian, since most of my family immigrated in the 50s, thanks to the time capsule effect some terms I use are dated, or just wrong.

Hungarian.

Kurva(Koo-r-voh) Whore/prostitute

Picsa(Pee-choh) Cunt