"I can call Shanks whatever I wants since he's the man who ruined my life!" said Buggy as he moved to explain his history.
Many years ago...
Two young boys were in the middle of an argument, one with a straw hat and one with a big red clown nose. The one in the Straw hat was making his point at this time, "I say the South Pole is the coldest of the two poles, it's a frozen continent after all."
"The North Pole is the coldest, it's made completely out of solid water. So it has much more ice and snow then the South Pole's frozen dirt, Shanks." said the one in the clown nose, as he seemed to be getting more and more upset. Shanks was also getting more and more upset as he entered the face of his opponent.
"Yes, but you don't need much cold to make water freeze. It takes a lot more cold to make a chunk of dirt, as you say, to freeze solid. This makes the South Pole the coldest, Buggy."
"It's the North Pole, you moron!" shouted Buggy as he charged to fight against Shanks, who proceeded to defend himself. This moved into a fight for a few minutes before an older man walked beside the fight and pulled the two of them away from each other by force.
"Stop it right now! Save it for the enemy, we're going into battle any time now." said the man as the ship moved next to another one.
Swords drawn, Buggy and Shanks moved to attack the enemy's crew. As they were fighting they were separated from each other. Buggy had charged ahead to cut down his foes. As he did this to one man, he saw paper sticking out of the man's shirt. Pulling it out, he saw it was some kind of map.
It was the orders to hand over any kind of map to the captain, but Buggy saw this as a way to make his fortune. He carefully hid the map into his own shirt as he moved to start fighting again.
Later that day...
The pirates in the crew had been having a party to celebrate their victory over their opponents. Buggy had been keeping himself away to hid the map he now held, while he had been keeping a few peeks at the map. He was memorizing all of the details he could make out. It was when someone called out his name, he stuffed the map into his shirt.
"Buggy, why aren't you joining the party? We managed to make a great score, even bigger then we thought. Turns out the ship had in it's hold a Devil Fruit of some kind. I once heard that all of the Devil's Fruits are the Sea Devil's incarnations. If you eat one, you gain a special ability, but you won't be able to swim ever again.
The captain says that's it worth at least a hundred million beli, maybe more for the right buyer. So you can bet that we'll be rolling in drinks when we hit the next port." shouted Shanks as he tried to bring Buggy to the party.
However, Buggy was getting another brainstorm as he looked for a way to slip from the crowd again. It was about fifteen minutes for him to get what he needed and then prepared for the show.
"I'm going to show how brave I am and eat this devil fruit!" said Buggy as he shoved a fruit with swirls on it before any of the men could stop him from swallowing. The crowd gasped at the shock of it and asked the young blue haired man if he was feeling alright. After a few questions, the crew had come to believe the devil fruit was a fake. Likely a scheme to cheat people for money, causing the men to leave in disappointment.
Buggy just smiled widely as he could feel the map and the real devil fruit inside his shirt. He then headed to the life boat for an escape.
'A map to treasure and a devil fruit to finance it, I'm going to have a powerful pirate crew. Better then anything this crew will ever do!' thought Buggy as he hid on the boat, before pulling out the devil fruit to look at it.
"Hey, Buggy!" came a voice as Buggy stuff the map with one hand into his shirt and the other hand shoved the devil fruit into his mouth. The voice of Shanks continued, "What are you grumbling about?"
"Oh, it's you. Don't startle me like that, I'm busy." mumbled the big nose pirate as his mouth was full of the whole devil fruit.
"What's with the expression? " started Shanks as he got up to leave. He continued to say, "If you're taking food, you had better stop. Cook's going to get upset with you. Buggy was just catching his breath after watching Shanks leave, when the voice scared him again.
"Oh yeah, the captain was saying...."
Buggy instinctively swallowed, as the huge fruit fell down his throat like a rock. A moment of silence occurred before the clown-like man grabbed the shirt of his crew mate and started to strange him while screaming the idiot's name.
"What's with that paper floating over there?" asked Shanks as he pointed off the ship.
Turned around to see what was the map he had been hiding in his shirt, Buggy jumped off the boat after it. Only for all of his muscles to lock up once he was in the water. It was moments later when Shanks lifted him from the water and back to the ship.
Back in the present...
"So Shanks saved your life?" asked Luffy, curious about this turn of events.
"Not the point! Because of Shanks I was delayed in my mission due to the loss of the fruit's profit, plus I could no longer gain the treasure since it was buried underwater. So I decided to take all of the treasure on the land instead." said the clown captain as his top half burst up into the sky above Luffy.
"No one touches my treasures but me. Anyone else who touches it will die!" continued the red nose man before shrieking out about his treasure and unhanding it. Luffy turned and saw Nami carrying two huge bag of something, as splitsman moved in for the attack. So Luffy did something he had wanted to do after the pirate had hurt his treasure, a good old fashion crystal boot to the nuts. Even over the distance, Buggy's upper half winched and stopped in pain.
The crystal man turned and said, "Your opponent is me!"
Luffy returned to his human form and started to talk to Nami, "You better leave that treasure and run, cause he's not going to stop coming after you till you do."
"Leave the treasure here? Definitely not! This is my treasure and I am not just going to leave it here where anyone can pick it up. It's mine!" argued the orange haired girl as she made her case for keeping it.
"Those are your treasures?! " Buggy was slowly rising from his laying down position as half a man.
Yes, they're mine. I am a thief who steals from pirates! Now that I got what I was here to steal, the treasures are mine for the taking. They become mine, all mine!" shouted Nami as she was starting to get angry with her fist out.
"That makes sense, I think," said Luffy as he pounded his fist into his flattened hand.
"Bullshit! Those are my treasure! You think they're yours because you stole them from me! What kind of school did you go to?" yelled the clown as his mouth turned into a grimace and his eyes rolled into the back of his head as they filled with veins.
The thief just held a slight frown as she said, "A crook lecturing another kind of crook is... Ridiculous! " The final part of the words were said in a huge smile as she seemed to find the idea a huge joke.
"What!" came the shocked blue haired pirate. Luffy was watching, curious about how this was heading.
"I will not bring myself down to the same level as you pirates." she said with a smile as she stuck out her tongue at Buggy after she spoke.
"You better prepare yourself, girl! Chop Chop Festival!" shouted Buggy as his devil fruit ability was beginning to take effect. The captain's body took on little chunks and fat discs and flew to the location of his upper half which was also shifting, his head remaining solid.
"If you think you can help your friend, you had better do it now, freak show!" said the enemy as he grinned his wicked grin! His chunks were floating after the young woman, who was now running from him. Nami was screaming as Buggy was laughing, when Luffy noticed one very interesting thing. Buggy's feet walking after his body.
Luffy took this moment to grab a foot and remove it from it's shoe, from it's stocking. He proceed to tickle it, and Buggy reacted in an annoyed manner. Luffy pinched the skin and Buggy grunted in pain. Luffy turned into Mr. Hand and held it with two hands while slamming the other two on it... Buggy stopped moving. Long enough for Nami to bash in the head of the floating clown with his, or Nami's treasure.
(Posted Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:46)
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