One Piece: And The Original - Chapter 20

“You’re sighing an awful lot aren’t you~” I smile as I stand at the back of the bike while unsuccessfully looking over his shoulder. Why is he so tall!!! No wait… Why am I son tiny!?! I silently cry as i realize my height.

“Who’s fault would that be… Aren’t you hot? Your face is all red…” He says as sighs again.

“Nah, I’m just not that good with the sun. Maybe I should get a devil fruit for that? Say do you know if witches exist? And… Where are we, and how much longer till we reach HQ?” I ask, as the past couple of days I’ve only seen ice on which we ride and ice that fell from the sky.

“The island where I found you was called Sixis, right now we are not that close to any island, all the same distance away… I think. And what are witches? And what do they have to do with the sun.”

As he asks that question I turn my face away. No witches eh. This requires some testing and some research. Different Kagune or devil fruit? Well I have enough time to figure it out, the pain isn’t so bad. But more importantly…

“Aww~ can’t we stop somewhere? Even if it’s far away, can we eat something different than fish?”

“Don’t evade the question”

“Maybe I’ll tell you some time in the future, or maybe not~” I smile as I really want to do something different than look at ice and the sea. Eating fish all the time is really boring, they also don’t really have blood so I’m still hungry.

“Arara you have a lot of secrets don’t you… Well anyway, wouldn’t you rather have joined the ship?… Mmm well something different than fish sounds good… There is a ship with a restaurant a bit up ahead, let’s go there” As he says the last part I can’t help but jump from joy, while almost falling off the bike in the process.

I try to see if I can spot the restaurant on the horizon as we ride, but Aokiji is just too tall.

“Oi Oi, stop hitting my back” He says as he looks behind him, only to see an angry squirrel looking at him with puffed cheeks.

“Arara, what made our little pet angry” He says as he pats my head.

“I’m not little!… and I’m not a pet” I yell as I jump off the bike and start to run beside it. Stupid old man, stupid black sheep, why is he so tall. Just you wait, when we arrive I will be average. And like that I run beside the bike till I can see the restaurant appear on the horizon.

As we ride up to the restaurant ice starts to form around the restaurant. We step off the bike as Aokiji parks it against a wall, making sure it won’t be in the way for passing people. Some people come out of the restaurant only to scream when they see their boat frozen solid with the ice.

“Ah! don’t worry it will melt in 3 hours” He replies at the screams.

The men turn around to see a almost 3 meter tall man standing in front of them, making them feel like ants in the process of straining their necks.

“We’ll wait…” The man says slowly as he walks toward his ship.

While dealing with the first, the second scream follows, however this time the man is clothed in chef attire. The man turns around and grabs Aokiji by the shoulder.

“Dear customer, you are disturbing our business and our customers, would you be so kind as to take away your ice?” The man asks with a smile that isn’t smile as I can see a vein popping on his forehead.

“Arara, well there is nothing much I can do at the moment as I explained before. The ice will melt in 3 hours. We will make sure to leave before then to not disturb your business more than we already have” Aokiji replies as he puts on his lazy smile and pats the mans shoulder as we walk inside the restaurant, leaving an angry chef behind.

“Why did you lie?” I whisper as we walk inside. He could have melted it with ease.

“Too lazy” Akoiji says as a yawn escapes his mouth. He walks up a table that is still unoccupied as I can see the chef from outside running into the kitchen. Is this really alright? This might get him more trouble than if he melts it. Well its his business, not mine. I sigh as I sit down and look at the menu.

I’ve almost read half of the menu as a young man in a black suit walks up to us.

“What would you like to order?” He asks as he smokes his cigaret.

“We would like some curry” Aokiji recipes while ordering for me at the same time.

I look up from behind the menu and throw an angry look at Aokiji, there is so much more to chose from, why curry? That stupid old man.

“Very well, I’ll be back in a moment” The young man turns around and walks back to the kitchen.

A few minutes later he comes back with a plate of curry and a plate with a burger on it.

“Curry for the gentleman, and a burger for the little lady” He says as he winks at me. He must have seen me look at the burger on the plate of our neighbor for a while. What good observation.

“Yare, Yare” Aokiji sighs as he begins to eat his curry. I smile back at the young boy and give my thanks. I must warn him of Luffy when I get the time. I smile as I look at the direction behind Sanji.. At the opening of the kitchen a braided mustache that sticked out behind the corner quickly disappeared as Sanji turns around and makes his way back to the kitchen.