OKAY! Reiews have come and that makes me feel so special, sooooo… I updated!

Nights evading my parents hae payed off and am slowly resuming zoobie (zombie) status.

So, I hope you like.

REIEW! Oh and by the way… my vvvvvvvv button isn’t working so if you see a lie where it should say live, it’s because I hae ery weak fingers and hae to pummel computa to get a … V

Ok, done now.

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“It’s fluffy.” Bec said bluntly, pulling at the little poofs on the skirt Nami had just gien her.

“I know.” Nami grinned.

“I look like a poodle.” Bec said, turning around in front of Nami’s mirror. Bec was wearing a short pink fluffy skirt, a darker pink off-the-shoulder long sleeed shirt and the same clunky boots from yesterday, her necklace was still there too.

She did look like a poodle. A pink poodle that wished it was black.

“Well, you’re wearing it.”

“Can I change the colour of it all?” Bec asked. How cool would it be if you could change the colour of things just by looking at them… she thought to herself.

“Uh… lemme think… no.”

“Can I change the skirt?”

“Can I pick it out?”

“Uh… I don’t want to say yes… I’m scared.”

“What if it’s black?”

“Talk to me.”

Nami grinned eillly and turned towards her cupboard. A few moments later she came out and gae Bec a short flowy black skirt. Bec raised her eyebrows in considerarion.

“Well, you’re wearing it.” She said. Again. Throwing it in Bec’s face.

Bec growled.

“Fine. Go away so I can change.” Bec said, shooing her away. “Go!” Nami went outside.

“Hmm…” Bec put the skirt on. She looked at herself in the mirror.

“Gaaaah…” She slapped the pink shirt. Then realised that that was stupid when she felt pain. Well, it wasn’t fluffy. And a coat. At least.

“Waaaah… I don wanna wear it… egh…” she poked the mirror in angriness. It shook and slid the 5 centimetres straight to the ground. And smashed.

CRASH! Tinkle tinkle tinkle…

“SHIT!” Bec yelled and tried to pick up the broken glass but cut herself.

“DAMMIT!” She yelled and slumped down onto the bed.

“Bec! WHAT DID YOU DO!?” Nami yelled from outside.

“Uh… I… shut the cupboard… vociferously…” She said, her face looking completely scared out of her mind. (ociferously isa word! How cool… I cheated by using the thesaurus… don’t you loe computers?)

“Uhu.”

“I diiid.” Bec said innocently. She turned to look at the glassy floor in front of her. She ran oer to the cupboard and grabbed the poofy poodle skirt, she put it on the ground and patted it down.

“There. All better.” Bec said. The skirt coered about… hmm… an… eighth of the shatters? Maybe. She skipped outside and quickly slammed the door shut behind her.

“Hey, Bec.” Luffy bounced out from… somewhere. Nami was nowhere to be seen, which was good for Bec. Luffy looked behind Bec and raised one eyebrow. “Uhh… whadidyado?”

“Oh… nothing.” Bec said, hastily shuffling away. She had shuffled to the edge of the ship when she realised that everyone was seemingly in a fixing-the-ship-that-Bec-crashed state of mind. And that all the tools ever imaginable and squigglable were in the hands of the crew, ready to fix. Or in the process of fixing.

“Hey.” Bec started, leaning oer the front of the ship, to the working people below.

“What!” Zoro said.

“Whoah. It must be frustrating. Fixing up a ship that crashed.”

“Only when the person who crashed it ISN’T DOING ANYTHING!”

“I’m doing something.”

“Well, I’m going to do something.” She corrected herself.

She looked around for inspiration.

“I’ll paint!” She said, jumping down from the helm to help.

“Don’t we kind of need paint to paint?” Bec said.

“You want paint. Get it yourself. We’re busy.” Zoro snapped. Sanji hit him on the head with a hammer.

“You can go and buy paint from somewhere on this island if you want. We couldn’t find anywhere that would sell to us but I’m sure they’ll sell anything to you, Bec-chaaaan.” Sanji said, handing her a purse of money.

“I’m sure I would.” Bec said.

“Someone needs to go with her.” Sanji said. Looking around to find someone suitable.

“I can go on my own, thankyou ery much.” Bec said. “Hmph.”

“No, Bec-chan, you can’t go out there all alone, you could get hurt. You must go with someone who can get hurt in your place.” Sanji said.

“Well, when you put it like that. I’m always up for the pain and suffering of others.” Bec said, smiling.

“Erm… who could go…” He said to himself.

“Why doesn’t Zoro go?” Luffy said, poking his head out from a hole he was mending.

You know, that little guy might just be having some surgery on his mouth ery soon…Bec thought, thoughtfully.

Sanji seemed to remember Luffy’s dare at that moment. His face drooped.

“Oh, that’s a great idea.” Nami seemed to remember too.

She shooed Bec and kicked Zoro in the direction of the path leading up to the village.

“You two hae fun now. Remember, we still have to see it!” Nami said from down the pathway.

“I HAVE A WEEK!” She creamed.

“What the hell was that?” Zoro asked.

“Oh… nothing.” She said, in a way that made it obvious that it wasn’t nothing.

“Sure it is. A whole lotta nothing.” He said.

“It is.”

“You’re not gonna tell me, hey?”

“Uh. NO! Why the hell would I tell you such a deep and dark secret that could destroy the lives of many and rip the very fabric of time and move very life as we know it into a very small little blip in the solar system, even smaller than it is now. Like a little dot the size of a pea. Now how would we fit on an earth the size of a pea? We wouldn’t. We’d be too tall for the atmosphere and wouldn’t be able to breathe, which would mean we’d die. That’d be bad.” She breathed and started talking in a less exasperated fashion. “So, no. I’m not gonna tell you.”

He blinked. “I see.”

“No, you don’t. You’re blind.” Bec said, acting a little crazy.

“”Uhu.” He said, unemotionally.

“You say that a lot. Is it like your favourite word or somethin? Or do you just like bein annoyin? Or are you speaking in some other language where ‘uhu’ means like ‘I feel like a medium takeaway mocha’? Are you okay man?” Bec said fastly.

He blinked again. “No-

“No!? Then you’re insane! Agh! He’s a madman! He’s a maaaadmaaan!”

“Are you okay??”

“Erm…”

“Were you ever okay?”

“Yes!”

‘Before or after you were dropped on your head?”

Bec thought for a moment.

“Before.”

He gave her a questioning look.

“And for about a month after. I was never really the same after the tree fell on me, though…” Bec’s eyes glazed over and she went off into Bec world.

“Well, that was a strange experience. Come. Paint is in need of being bought.” And with that he walked off in front of her.

Bec started and ran after him.

“Wait up!”

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“Oooh! Over here! Come Zoro! Mush!” Bec zipped over to a shop full of brightly coloured paints and oogled.

“God! Why me?” He moaned, walking over to the paint shop. They walked in and a bell tinkled. A guy in a purple beanie popped his head out of an office door.

“Oh, hellOOooo. What do we want today, sir?” He asked Zoro in an enthusiastic way. Very pepped up.

“Uh, well, she –“ Zoro started.

“I’m NOT a sir!” Bec shouted in his face and crossed her arms like a three year old wanting something her mum won’t give him.

“But, maaAadam, I was –“

“NO! I don’t care. You have insulted me and been horrible. Have you ever seen a ‘sir’ in a black skirt? I think not. Well, have you?” Bec demanded.

“Er…” The purple-beanied guy had obviously never come across such stupidity.

“Don’t answer that!”

“Oh kay.” He was utterly confused.

“And FURTHERMORE! You should never –“ Zoro put his hand over her mouth so that all the purple beanied guy heard was muff fenful fan fahga fa…

“Sorry about her. She has a serious mental condition.” He said to the shop keeper.

Bec kicked him in the shins.

“Ow! Damn you.” He yelled but didn’t move his hand.

Muffled yelling came from Bec’s mouth while Zoro discussed the issue of paint colours. He was walked over to a wall covered in brown pieces of paper which were colour samples.

“Uhh…” Zoro considered this but then immediately erased any positive thoughts about the colour brown from his mind when he heard a mffled screaming coming from Bec’s way and he looked over to see her giving the brown colours a mega glare of doom. “I was thinking of something more along the lines of… blue. And green and yellow and orange and red and purple.” The shopkeeper handed him six cans of paint. Zoro let go of Bec’s mouth to carry the said paint and Bec continued blabbering about… things.

“…so only if you want to DIE should you ever come into the mousse pink kitchen unattended, wearing glomp vests might help but the evil platypus’s can get past that if you walked in backwards, so just don’t go in without adult supervision. You should go into the bathroom, it may look more scary but looks can be deceiving like that saying ‘don’t judge a book by it’s cover’, I wonder who came up with that, obviously some guy with a very limited social life or maybe it was some guy who was made to do enrichment at school and his teacher made him study philosophy and he just sat in a classroom for an hour pondering his anti-social life…” Bec blabbered on.

Zoro handed the shopkeeper back the cans of paint.

THWAK!

“Ok, so how much?” Zoro asked the shopkeeper, getting the tins off of him.

“Uh…” Purplebeanie man looked past Zoro at the now unconscious Bec lying on the ground, he raised his eyebrows but answered Zoro’s question.

“5.”

“Hundred?”

“Hundred thousand.”

“WHAT?! I can’t pay that much for paint! Nami will kill me!” Zoro shouted his troubles into the shopkeepers face, who didn’t really look like he cared all that much.

“If you want the paint, pay for it. If not, grab your friend and get out of here.” He said, his peppiness totally gone.

“Fine…” He grumbled. “Stupid… girl…money…paint…stupid…captain…” And with that he glared at the shop keeper and grabbed his paint.

“Come on sleepyhead. We’re leaving.” He said down to Bec.

She didn’t move.

“Uh… Bec?” He nudged her with his foot.

She didn’t move.

“Get up or I’ll… uh… sit on you.”

She still didn’t move.

“Shit! I killed Bec! Luffy gonna kill me! Shit!” He panicked.

“You’re so… stupid…”

“Nani?” He looked down to see Bec sticking her tongue out at him.

“Oi. Get up. We’re leaving.” He said, totally calm again, walking out the door.

Bec sat up and folded her arms.

“I’m. Not. Moving.”

Zoro bwipped.

“Well I’m going.” He said and continued walking out the door.

“…” Bec didn’t move.

“Eh…” He turned around and dragged Bec out by her ankle which caused some very load protests to come out of Bec’s mouth.

“OI! PUT MY FOOT DOWN! NOW! YOU PERVERT! I CAN WALK!”

“Well, you should have thought of that before.”

“WELL I DIDN’T! PUT ME DOWN! NOW! GAH! YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW THIS BUT THIS IS EXTREMELY AWKWARD IN A SKIRT! YOU PROBABLY DO KNOW THIS THOUGH BECAUSE YOU’RE A CHICK!”

He dropped her ankle.

“Who are you calling a chick?”

“YOU!” Bec shouted stubbornly.

“NANI?!” He shouted back.

“I said… YOU ARE A CHICK! A MARIMO HEADED ERO CHICK!”

“THAT DOESN’T EVEN MAKE SENSE!”

“SURE IT DOES!”

“NO IT DOESN’T! And punishment for making up that stupid sentence is me dragging you back to the ship!” Zoro said and dragged Bec away.

“Hey! Noooo… put my foot down! Gimme my foot back! I need it!”

“Not if you’re not walking.”

“But I wanna walk!”

“Tough. You’re not gonna.”

“Yes. I. Am!” Bec said and kicked him in the arm with her free leg whilst still being dragged along on the ground.

“Ow. HEY! GET BACK HERE!” He shouted at the small dot that was getting smaller in the direction opposite the ship.

“Kuso. I swear she is related to Luffy.” He hid the paint and ran off after the dot.

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“Okay, I’m safe… he will never find me here… I wonder where I am…?” Bec said to herself. FYI: she was in a bar, like a club/bar/thingo but she don’t know that.

She looked around, it was pretty empty. Well, it looked empty for where she came from. This was a small island though, so you’d think it would be empty.

“HelloOoOooo! Anybody there?” Bec called over the counter.

“Hello.” A man popped up beside Bec.

“GAH!” She jumped about a metre in the air. “Holy shw-… YOU OBVIOUSLY DON’T -…. WHERE IN -…hum…What the hell was that for?!” She shouted.

“Sorry. I just said hello. I didn’t know you’d explode.” He said politely.

“Well next time you should be more careful where you go saying your hello’s.” She glared at him.

“I will then. So why were you making all this noise in my bar anyway? Scaring off customers like that.” He said in an annoyingly polite way.

“I am hungry. And thirsty. But I have no money…” She said, that last fact just dawning on her.

“Uhu. So how do you think I can help you when you have no money? I’m sorry but I don’t make stuff for free.”

“Well… I’m being chased by a madman… he vant’s to suck my bloooood! And he is very uncoordinated… he needs a tai kwon do teacher. Wait, that’s chinese. Just pretend I didn’t say that. But I am being chased by a crazy green haired swordsman that uses three of them. Swords, that is. I need a place to hide, drink and seeing as I have no money, I won’t eat. But if you could help me hide and drink that would be dandy. And then later I can go and have some giddy joy away from the scary man…” she said.

“Are you always this voluble?” He asked.

“Uh… yes? wait…what was the question?”

“Talkative.”

“I think so. Well, some people say I talk too much and some people say I don’t talk at all but I don’t know if they’re being sarcastic or not, and then I ask them and they say ‘you have obviously never been taught the language of sarcasm’ and then I say ‘I never knew sarcasm was a language’ and then they roll their eyes and say some thing like ‘you’re so stupid’ and then –“ the barowner put a hand over her mouth.

“I think you just answered my question.”

Bec just looked at him.

“Well, if I’m gonna let you hide in here I have to know your name.”

“You’re letting me stay! Aww, you rock. Wait, isn’t it more polite to tell the person your name when you ask someone theirs?”

“Uh… sure then. My name is Josh.”

“And your last name?”

Josh gave her a bwip look.

“Fine then. My name is Bec. I rock and I am aboard a pirate ship called the Going Merry. My captain is Luffy.”

He looked shocked when he heard the word pirate but Bec didn’t see it.

“Sooo… who is this green haired guy you’re running from?” He asked warily.

“Roronoa Zoro.”

“Z-z-Zoro?! How did you manage to get him chasing you!?”

“Well, it was my awesome powers of kung fu!” Bec struck what she thought was a kung fu pose. “And he’s trying to chase me down so our ship can leave.” She admitted.

“Wait… You’re on a ship… with Roronoa Zoro?”

“Uhu.”

“How the hell did that happen?”

“Well, Luffy asked him on the ship first, then a couple more people… then a while later it was me.”

“Who’s Luffy?”

“Our captain. Captain of the straw hat crew actually.”

“Straw hat Luffy?”

“Yeeeaaaah. Now hide me! He’s gonna be here soon.”

“How do you know that?”

“He’s much smarter than me, sadly enough.”

“Ok then.” He shoved Bec behind the counter and she curled up into a ball under the countertop.

A little while later, Zoro walked in.

“Hey, have you seen a girl run through here? Really loud and stupid. About this high and uh… she has a tendency to annoy people smarter than her.”

“Uh… that high? No. Not here.” Josh replied.

“Hey! You implying that I am loud, stupid and annoying?” Bec stood up, outraged. She put her hands on her hips and glared at Josh.

She looked over at Zoro, then down at her now very visible self. Zoro looked over at Bec and grinned evilly.

“Crap!” Bec ducked down and scampered away, just about the time Zoro dove across the counter and missed her head. He crashed into the wall behind her.

“I’m gonna get you!” He jumped up.

“eep!” Bec scampered away and Zoro chased her out the door.

Josh looked at the two people running down the road, hearing their shouts fade into the distance. He blinked.

“Well that was weird.”

!!

So there you go. And I know I’m being slow but I just have lot’s of home work.

No, that’s a lie. I just have heaps of Eisteddfod stuff coming up and haven’t practiced for them or done homework or written anymore story.

I’m just slack. I hate waiting for updates so I know how you feel if you are.

If that made any sense.

R&R

Oh and btw… MY V STARTED WORKING HALFWAY THROUGH THE CHAPTER! YAY ME!

My comp now likes meh! I think…