Shells: Chapter 20

Chapter 19: A Little History By: Lvdoomien ____________________________________________________________________________


 * Tomas wakes up the next morning, trying to remember what the hell happened last night.*

Tomas: (What the... what the hell happened?) *Tomas looks around and sees Lynn sleeping peacefully. His eyes go wide as everything Some what rushes back to his memory.* (Damnit all she was real! But did we...?) *lifts up the bed sheets and sees himself naked.* (Well I am.) *lifts up Lynn's bed sheets and sees her naked.* (She is too. Might as well wake her up, maybe we just slept with our clothes off.)


 * Tomas shakes Lynn's shoulder so she wakes up. She opens her eyes, sees Tomas, and kisses him.*

Lynn: Hay handsome.

Tomas: Hayyy. *Tomas discreetly looks away and drops an F bombs under his breath.* So you are real?

Lynn: Yep.

Tomas: And last night?

Lynn: That was real too.

Tomas: So we're together?

Lynn: Pretty much.

Tomas: Cool. I'm gonna go see what the guys are doing, you stay here if you want.

Lynn: Anything you say. *Kisses him again.*


 * Tomas puts all his clothes on and goes up on deck to see Komota mopping and Sake manning the helm.*

Tomas: So what I miss?

Komota: I won the drinking contest and Sake threw up so now I gotta mop all this up.

Sake: Hay you started the whole contest.

Komota: Well your the damn lightweight who lost.

Tomas: Anyway, Sake where are we.

Sake: The middle of nowhere.

Tomas: Komota, telescope.


 * Komota hands Tomas a telescope and Tomas surveys the surrounding ocean.*

Tomas: Yep, nothing. Now on a more important matter, you know that chic that kicked my ass and send me to the hopspital? The hot one?

Sake: Yeah, that crazy chic with the big sword.

Komota: The girl you kissed?

Tomas: Damnit Komota this is serious.

Komota: *while laughing.* What then?

Tomas: Well while I was drunk, I may of run into her 'cus she snuck on the ship and I may of let her join the crew.


 * Komota raises an eyebrow and Sake looks at him oddly.*

Sake: So where is she?

Tomas: She's in the captain's quarters putting her clothes on. Wait I mean-

Komota: She's what?

Tomas: Ummm.


 * Komota and Sake look at each other, then they start laughing their heads off. Meanwhile, Lynn comes on deck and sees both of them laughing.*

Lynn: Whats going on?

Tomas: Nothing, their just giving me a hard time. Now stop laughing and introduce yourselfs.

Komota: Good morning, my names Komota. Komota Arnold. I'm the first mate and the deck hand.

Lynn: Hi. *They both shakes hands.*

Sake: And I'm Sake, the helmsman.

Lynn: Hi to you too. *waves at Sake*

Tomas: Well Lynn here is our new swordswoman, so be nice you two.

Komota: Yes captain. *Still laughing a little.*

Tomas: Hay its not like this has happened to you!

Komota: But it has remember? I am old, that has happened to me before! And I'm a little hung over but I still say thats funny.

Lynn: Tomas...?

Tomas: Don't worry about him dear, he's hung over.

Sake: Komota!

Komota: Yeah?

Sake: How'd you join the Sargasso Pirates?

Tomas: Yeah that reminds me, how in the hell did that happen?

Lynn: You were in the Sargasso Pirates?

Komota: Yes, I was the first mate. Now everyone gather around, its time for some history.


 * Komota sits on the railing on the side of the boat while everyone else stands around him.*

Komota: 43 years ago, thats when I met Sead. I was working at a bar, mopping the floors and such. It was a boring job. So boring, not even the drunks were funny to watch. That all changed one day....


 * Komota flashes back to when he was working at the bar while still telling everybody about meeting Sead. Komota, with brown hair and less of a beard is mopping the floor. A man that Komota has never seen walks in. He's a very tall man, about 6' tall. He had dark green hair and a dark green beard. His skin looked wet to the touch. The man walked with a cane, but he walked like he didn't need the cane. The cane looked like a simple one, except the top part where you hold the cane was some sort of round almost glowing ball. It reminded Komota of the sun. Holstered on the man's back was some strange gun that Komota had never seen before. The man sits down for a drink.*

Sead: Rum, one pint.

Bartender: Coming right up. *The bar tender gives Sead some rum.*


 * After a little while a group of local thugs, five in total, come into the bar. They order drinks, get a little buzzed then they realized they don't have enough beli on them. One of them points a gun at the man, he was standing in Komota's reach.*

Bandit: Hay buddy, you wouldn't mind giving up some beli for your life would you?


 * Sead looks at the bandit and raises an eyebrow.*

Sead: You think you can kill me with a single bullet?

Bandit: Looks at this guy, he thinks he's a god or something! *All the bandits laugh mockingly at Sead.*

Sead: I really don't have time for this.

Bandit: Well deal with it, 'cus I'm about to knock you down a peg. *The bandit gets ready to shoot Sead through the head, but Komota quickly brings his mop up on the bandit's arm, breaking it almost in half.*

Bandit: MY ARM!


 * Three other bandits grabs weapons, a chain a broken bottle and a stool, and stand in fighting positions. Komota does the same and unsheathes his bisento. Sead turns around and watches the fight in interest.*

Komota: Attack me, I dare you.


 * All three bandits attack Komota. The one with the broken bottle goes first, but Komota shatters the bottle with his bisento then slashes the guy across the chest. The second one tries to hit Komota with a chain, but Komota simply slices his throat open. The third one with the stool tries to hit Komota but misses. Komota then hits him in the crotch and knocks him aside. One bandit is left, but is still sitting.*

Komota: Are you the leader?

Bandit Leader: Yeah and you just pissed me off! *The leader stands up and transform into a half tiger hybrid by using a devil fruit. They both attack each other and the bandit leader has the upper hand.*

Sead: The bucket. *Both of them look at him confused, but then Komota remembers that water nullifies devil fruits!*

Bandit Leader: Make your move!


 * Komota uses his mop to pick up the bucket and brings it down on the leader's head. The bucket gets stuck and the water nullifies the devil fruit. Komota takes the oppurotunity to attack the leader with his bisento, and finishing him off by driving his bisento blade through the bucket and into the leader's head.*

Komota: Just did.


 * Sead starts clapping out on impressment. The bartender, however, was not so impressed.*

Bartender: GET OUT! YOUR FIRED!

Komota: What? Why?

Bartender: BECAUSE YOU JUST KILLED FIVE PAYING CUSTOMERS! THAT'S WHY!

Komota: One of them was gonna kill this man!

Bartender: YEAH, ONE OF THEM! NOT ALL OF THEM!

Komota: You greedy bastard!

Bartender: GET OUT ALREADY!


 * Komota sheathes his bisento, flips off the bartender and walks out the door. Sead finishes his drink then stands up and starts leaving. The bartender pulls out a shotgun and points it at Sead.*

Bartender: You forgot to pay.

Sead: I know.

Bartender: I'll blow your head clean off, wise guy.

Sead: *Turns to the bartender* Try me.


 * The bartender pulls the trigger and blows off Sead's head. Suddenly, seaweed grows out of where his head was and reforms his head.*

Bartender: What the...

Sead: Kaiso Kaiso no Mi. (Seaweed Seaweed fruit) Now if you don't mind, I'm leaving.


 * Sead goes out the door and catches up to Komota. They start talking.*


 * Back in the present.*

Komota: Then after that, he proposed we start a crew. We did, and we set sail after we found ourselves a ship. We started amassing a crew almost immediately.

Tomas: Who else joined you guys though?

Komota: Let me think.... There was Gordon, our shipwright. Then we ran into Hannah and she became our markswoman. After her was Levia, our assasin. Then Etchi, our Swordsman and Pops, our helmsman. Then we met Stradivarius, our musician. And finally Valencia, our chef. Just thinking of all their names reminds me of the old days.

Lynn: Well you said Valencia's name different than the other's. Was she special to you?

Komota: Yes, me and her were like you and Tomas.

Lynn: Well what happened to her?

Komota: *Looks to the side a little.* She died.

Lynn: Ohh thats terrible.

Komota: I don't mind, I've come to peace with it.

Tomas: So what happened to the other crew anyway? I keep hearing people mention the Sargasso-Mask Incident.

Komota: Yes, that. Well what happened-

Sake: CAPTAIN!

Tomas: What?!

Sake: Theres a rowboat off the port side!

Komota: There is?


 * Everyone looks to the port side of the ship to see a rowboat drifting in the water.*

Tomas: Sake! Go get that rowboat!


 * Sake nods and jumps in the water, then pulls the rowboat towards the ship. Sake climbs back on board with an unconscious and severely beaten up man in torn up marine clothing and lays him down on deck.*

Komota: Is he breathing?

Lynn: I'll try CPR on him.

Tomas: So you can be our doctor too?

Lynn: I can't do surgeries, but I can tell if your not breathing.


 * Lynn starts doing CPR on the man. After some chest compressions and some mouth-to-mouth, the man wakes up slowly and looks at Lynn.*

????: Am I dead?

Lynn: No, your stable now.

????: Well I thought I was, because you look like an angel.


 * Tomas leans over and punches the man in the face.*

Tomas: Don't hit on my girlfriend!

Lynn: Tomas!

Tomas: What?

TO BE CONTINUED

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