high_seas | goin on a boar hunt

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goin on a boar hunt

Who: Luffy and Clementine
Where: Isla Empieza, the fountain, the forest
When: October 7th
What: Going to hunt a boar or two!
Warnings: Well you can bet it won't be...wait for it... boaring. ahahahaha /shot
Status: If you really want in, ping me.

It was early in the morning when Luffy approached the fountain, whistling to himself and tapping a stick against his shoulder. There were a lot of new people here and it was pretty exciting. Weird that no one had seen that annoying ghost guy, but maybe he only showed up once in a while. Anyway, that didn't matter right now. Sanji was getting compasses and he had his nakama back except Brook and it was a great day with blue skies and sharp clouds and a nice wind that curled everywhere and tickled the edges of his hat.

He spotted a girl by the fountain and wondered if it was the same one he'd talked to over the journal. Only one way to find out. He raised a hand in greeting.

"Yo!"

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"Hi!" Clementine waved at Luffy, pushing her hat up a bit so she could take a look at him. She thought he looked pretty tall, actually, and he had a cool hat too.

She got to her feet and smoothed out her new dress. She had a little backpack now that she had stopped to get at the market because Kyouya had to get rid of her sweater since it was covered in blood.

"This way!" he said, pointing with the stick toward the forest that was just visible beyond the town. He didn't stop but slowed his pace until she caught up and then grinned at her before peering curiously at the bag.

"What's in there? Did someone pack you a pirate bento?"

She followed after him easily enough, she was used to moving quickly after all, and keeping up with adults. She put her hands on the straps of her bag as she walked.

"I don't know...what's a bento?" Clementine asked curiously.

He took a small bento out of his pocket. He needed to get a bag himself to carry a big one in, and he would have to have a giant one to pack it full of all the boar they were going to catch. He opens the lid for her to see.

"It has rice and broccoli" boo "And meat. It'll keep you strong when you're hunting boars."

She shook her head. "No, I don't have anything like that with me. I have my journal, the money I got and my gun."

"Wanna get something to eat before we go?" They could find stuff edible in the forest, too. Luffy dumped the bento in his mouth and chewed it all at once, cheeks bulging.

"Fiff fuf fafe faff feaffy ffoff feaff foff fa fiff-- fuff faffy ffoffy at dinner."

"No, I'm okay." Clementine smiled and shook her head again. "Kyo got me a really big dinner last night. I'm still really full."

"Okay!" It was kind of weird to meet someone who would be full after a really big dinner without a really big breakfast afterwards and a really big mid morning snack and a bento.

"Who is Kyo? Is he your nakama?"

She didn't eat a lot, at least not anymore, and for her a meal was a pretty big deal at this point. She tilted her head at the weird word again.

"Kyo is Kyo-ya." She sounded it out. It was still pretty hard. "He got me this new dress, and I got to stay with him yesterday!"

"Kyokyoya." He nodded thoughtfully. There was a long low wall here and he hopped up on it, idly using it as a balance beam. "He seems like a pretty good guy. Are you gonna sail with him?"

"He said he was going to find me a crew to go with, but if he doesn't then he said I can go with him." Clementine answered, looking a bit worried. "I don't know how to find a crew."

"Mmm." That was kind of annoying. Why did he go that far only to not help where she really needed it? It was good that he helped her that much but it was going to be hard to find a crew with so many new people here and it was really hard to be the last thought of someone you trusted even a little. At least he was finding her some place, though. That was good.

"Have you decided what you want to do?" He hopped off the wall because it ended and ran his stick along a wooden fence. The town ended in a few feet and then there was the road to the forest. Already he could smell adventure.

"I don't know." She shook her head. "I was thinking about what you said though. Being a pirate sounds scary. I don't want to die." Clementine shook her head.

"But I..." She paused. "I'm scared all the time."

Luffy frowned. This was why he wanted to kick the ghost guy's ass. It was one thing being afraid to go after your dream because you might die, but it was another to be in a place like this when you didn't choose it.

But Ace had been right, too. This kind of thing happened all the time to people. Sometimes it wasn't even because of a jerk, but because of a storm or even because they got sick. She hadn't had an easy life before this either, he was pretty sure. Especially if she carried a weapon with her and there was a kind of hardness to her even if she was afraid. She wasn't a coward.

"Everyone dies. You're going to take the same risk no matter who you sail with. So you can be scared all the time, if you want." He shrugged and, since the fence was done, tapped the stick against his shoulder again. "Or you can find a way to have fun."

"Is sailing scary?" Clementine asked. She wasn't sure, it wasn't the most terrifying thing she could think of. "I didn't think of it that way. I thought a boat might be fun."

She scratched her head a little under her hat. "I don't like the walkers - the zombies. They're really scary. But it was okay because I had Lee with me. But Lee is gone now and I'm alone so it's really scary again. You said I had to put my life on the line to be a pirate, but I'm not sure, that's all."

Clementine looked down a bit. "If I die, won't I become one of them?"

"Mm. Well you have sea monsters and storms and strange islands and sometimes you get lost or run out of food..." And sometimes those were fun, except the food part. He was a little surprised she was scared of zombies because all you had to do was put salt in them to make their shadows go back or something like that.

He nodded at the pirate part, though he hadn't realized that was what she'd been talking about. He wasn't really sure how to answer her question, though. If she died would she become a pirate? Would she become a zombie? Or a walker?

"Who knows? It's a mystery."

"Well...when I'm at home, when you die you become a walker because everyone is sick with...something. I don't know what it is. Nobody does."

Clementine looked a little worried about this. "But I guess I do dangerous things all the time. So it's not different right?"

"That's pretty hard." Especially if not even the doctors knew. Maybe Chopper could ask about it and find out how to fix it if he was here. He wasn't, though, so for now Luffy had to let it rest.

"Yeah." He nodded. "And if you turn into a walker thingy, don't worry, we'll fix it." How was a mystery but he was sure he could find something.

"Right. If I died and became a walker, you just have to shoot me in the head. Then I won't be walker anymore." Clementine nodded a bit in agreement.

It didn't sound too scary to go sailing. She didn't think so much about dying herself, until she lost Lee. She hoped if she did die, someone would let her rest.

"Okay." A nod. It was kind of weird but she knew what she was talking about so he would trust that it would turn out all right. And if they found a way to help her, then he wouldn't have to do that at all. They were entering the forest now and he hummed absently to himself, tapping the stick against his shoulder.

"Hey, do you know any songs?"

Clementine looked up at him and tilted her head. "I don't know, let me think about it..."

She scratched her head under her baseball cap. "I think we used to sing songs in school, but I don't really remember them now."

School... He remembered hearing something about those kind of things once. It's sad that she doesn't remember any songs. Everyone should have songs. Even Marines. Even Smokey.

"I can teach you one I learned." It was a pretty easy song and the best part was, it didn't matter if you forgot the words because you could just make them up.

"That would be nice!" Clementine smiled. "We won't get in trouble for being too loud, right Luffy?"

"Hahaha we can be as loud as we want! See?"

And he sucked in a deep breath.

"OIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!"

Clementine jumped a bit when he yelled and then covered her ears quickly. She could still hear him, just not as insanely loud as he had been.

"That's...really really loud."

"Yeah," he said with a laugh. "But it probably scared the animals away. Hey look..." He crouched down by a tree and pointed to where a trail of broken sticks and matted leaves made an ambling tread through the forest. "I think something big has been here. See?" And he pointed to a cloven hoof mark in the soft earth.

She leaned over to take a look at what he was pointing at. Broken sticks, leaves that looked like she'd sat in them on the front lawn, and even a hoof mark. "I think you're right."

Clementine went over to look closer at that above all. "Wow. You're really smart!"

He grinned and put a finger to his lips.

"It still looks pretty fresh," he said in a low voice, pointing a little further on. "There's poop and it still looks warm." He poked it with the stick and found it was still squishy which meant whatever they were looking for was close by.

He dropped the stick and walked carefully alongside the trail, waving him behind her so that she would do it too and not accidentally mess it up or step in anything. It lead to some tall grasses that were waist high on him and he spotted something really cool that made him duck down and crawl on hands and knees through the grass so he wouldn't be noticed.

Clementine could take a hint. She made a zipping motion over her lips and followed him, reaching out to hold onto the back of his vest. Just so he didn't get too far ahead of her. Each step was careful, and she matched his pace with practiced ease.

When he ducked down, she was forced to let go, but she got on her hands and knees too and followed after him. The ground was sticky, and a bit muddy, but she could wash her hands and knees later. She just hoped her new dress didn't get too dirty, or else Kyo might get mad at her.

He paused for a second, cupping a dirty hand to the back of his ear to hear better, listening hard until he heard the faint contented squeaking sounds. He looked back at the girl to make sure she was still behind him. When he saw she was, he grinned and gave her a thumb up before putting a finger to his lips again and inching carefully forward.

Then he stopped, settling back on his legs and waited until she was by his side before carefully pulling the grass aside. A mother boar and three little boarlets lay in a patch of trampled down grass. No four little boarlets. Three were drinking happily at their mother's side but the fourth was wandering around, nosing through the trampled grass.

She crouched in the grass beside him, looking at the little boar family. "They're babies." She whispered. It was really kind of cute to see the family together like that.

"Yeah," he whispered, seeing a nut beside him and rolling it gently toward the boarlet who squeaked in surprise and then went to investigate it, his little ears flopping.

"We shouldn't eat them, cuz if we try, the mama will get mad. shishishi"

Clementine nodded. That made sense. If someone tried to eat her, her mom would have gotten pretty mad.

But on the other hand, they were hunting them to eat right? What would they eat if they didn't?

"Don't you want to eat them?"

"They're too little." He sat back and rested his arm on his knees. "Maybe if I was really really starving I might..." But he would have to be near death to want to and he would be sad afterwards. He glanced at her.

"Are you hungry?"

"Not too hungry." Clementine shook her head. "I just thought you wanted to eat the boars. I didn't know you didn't want to eat the little ones."

"Not today. We'll find bigger boars." She was a little hungry, though so they could find something else to eat for now. Maybe some fruit or nuts. The mother grunted as if she was about to wake up and the baby boarlet was wandering closer. If the mama woke up now that would be really bad.

He started inching back --and his stomach growled loudly. The mama boar's eyes shot open and focused on him. With a snort, she lumbered to her feet, pawing one against the ground. He gulped. Maybe she just had itchy feet?

"Okay, bigger would be good too." Clementine agreed.

When he started to move back, so did she, trusting his expertise on the matter. She saw the mother boar getting up but she hadn't spent much time studying animals, maybe they just got up from time to time.

He saw the boar's muscle's flex and grabbed the girl, pulling her out of the way just as it charged the spot she'd been sitting, goring the air with her tusks. Luffy rolled to his feet, the girl still under his arm and bolted as the Mama boar charged after him.

He yelped as she lunged again and a third time, nearly grazing the back of his calf.

"I'M NOT GONNA EAT YOU, STUPID BOAR! GO AWAY!"

She must have been really mad because she only picked up speed. He tripped over a hidden root, losing ground as he flailed with one arm to keep upright, then spotted a tree in the distance.

He darted closer to it, propellering his free arm as he went.

"Gum Gum noooo GRAPPLING HOOK!" And his hand shot out, arm stretching the distance as he grabbed onto a branch, and pulled them up to it at a speed so fast they almost overshot.

Grabbing her suddenly was a surprise and Clementine let out a yelp. "Luffy!"

As they ran however, it was really obvious he was doing it to protect her, which was a nice thought but she wasn't a toddler. She pouted at him a little bit.

All of that was washed away when they were suddenly flying through the air and she screamed at the top of her lungs.

He landed hard on the branch but it held their weight, and twisted back to look at the mama boar. She snuffled, glared at him with beady angry eyes, pooped to show how mad she was and then trotted off. Luffy let out a breath and set the girl on the branch beside him.

"Whoo that surprised me. I thought we were going to die! Haha"

It definitely surprised her and she sat down, frowning a little as she caught her breath.

"I can run too...you don't have to carry me." Clementine said finally.

Then she paused. "How did you jump so high?"

"Sorry, sorry," he said carelessly. He would keep that it mind though it had seemed the only thing to do at the time. You didn't want to think too much when there was a mad boar after you.

"I didn't jump, I stretched," he said, pulling at his cheek to show. "I'm a rubber person."

"Really?" Clementine tilted her head and reached up to grab onto his arm, before pulling with all of her might, just to see if he would stretch. He felt the same as Lee though, not like rubber. It was really weird.

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