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I Prefer A See You Later

Who: The Strawhats
Where: Sailing Log, Legends of the Hidden Island 05/02-05/03, Sakura Drift 05/05-?
When: 04/26th-?
What: Sailing around, doing typical Strawhat type things
Warnings: None
Status: Semi-open. If you're around feel free to drop in

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Did he have to go and shout like that?! Clearly Lyrik was startled, practically jumping two feet in the air. The broom handle clattered to the deck, slipping from his hands.

"E-eh?? I'm- My name's Lyrik..!"

Edited 2015-05-02 02:26 (UTC)

"Yo, I'm Luffy." But wait now that he thought about it he'd seen the guy around a lot. Even sleeping in the bunk. There was something familiar about all that. He looked at the broom and back up to Lyrik. And then knocked his fist into his palm.

"Hey! You're the clobber man, right?"

Looking awkwardly at the other, Lyrik slowly nodded as he noted that. He paused. "Oh! You're the one that Sanji was talking to over the journal, aren't you?"

And then he paused, looking blankly at Luffy. "...the what?"

"Yup! And Usopp told me about you once." It was pretty interesting, actually! He'd only felt Merry, but never seen him and now this guy. He looked realer than Luffy expected! In either case, Luffy hopped off his perch on the figurehead and offered the guy an apologetic bow.

"Sorry for peeing on your railing the other day but the wind blew back and I didn't expect it."

"Who?" Lyrik continued to look at him as though he'd sprouted an extra head, completely confused. The apology made him blink, his brow scrunching up at the verbal part of it.

"U-um... I...really have no idea what you're talking about, Mister Luffy. I just joined your crew, shortly after that Summit meeting. I used to be a part of Captain Harlock's crew, aboard the Triton's Mistress."

"Oh yeah, you're that guy!" Well he's kind of glad. He didn't think Merrliy would be so mad he'd peed on him to actually appear. He'd done the same accidentally to Sunny and Merry a lot and it was usually cuz of the wind so he thought they'd understand. They were ships after all.

"Yo. What's up? Want to see a bug I found?"

Lyrik smiled, glad that it had been relatively painless to correct Luffy on the matter of his identity.

"I was just cleaning things up a little. Hope you don't mind- Er...a bug?" What?

"Yeah! It's really cool, come on."

And he jogged past Lyrik into the men's quarters, opening a sea chest and throwing clothes and assorted junk out while he looked for it.

"I found it in the dark so I guess it liked it but I didn't want Sanji to get grossed out." He pulled out a floppy hat pushed the strawhat back on his shoulders to tug it on, seeming reflective for a moment before diving back in.

"It was really cool. It was kind of like a Miyama Stag but with spots on it that glow in the dark." What had Chopper called that kind of thing once? "Pots for essence." Yep that was it.

Edited 2015-05-04 05:46 (UTC)

Blinking, Lyrik turned around before he set the broom aside to follow. Peering through the doorway, he slipped inside and very nearly found himself buried in clothing.

"Glow? Uh...you mean like a firefly?" he asked as he pulled a shirt from his face. Stooping down, he began to pick up the discarded clothes, folding them before he set them in a pile beside him. "Um...why are you keeping a bug anyway?"

"Kinda but it wasn't winky. It's like when you go really deep and the fish are like that. And I'm not keeping it, I'm just holding onto it for a wh... Oh..." Luffy sits back, a pair of pants draped over his neck like a cape and holds up the jar which has become unscrewed and decidedly empty of beetle.

"Uh oh..."

"Uh...oh?" Yeah, that didn't sound good. "Well, it can't have gone far, right?" Lyrik looked up from folding another shirt, head tilting at Luffy.

"I dunno. We better find it. Help me look." And he shook all the clothing in the trunk, peeked under the floppy hat, the clothes that Lyrik had folded and then went around crawling on all fours.

"Sanji's gonna be real mad if he finds you, bug. You'd better come out..."

Lyrik looked around from where he sat, scratching his head. "Okay. Hmm...if I were a bug- Um. Where did you find this bug anyway, Luffy?" he asked as he got to his feet. Since Luffy was handling the low ground, he decided to see if maybe he could find this creepy crawly elsewhere around the room.

"Um near the beach on some twigs. But I bought them with me." He sits cross legged with the top of the hammock brushing over the floppy hat. "Maybe we should call him... But I didn't give him a name." That's a problem... "Do you think he'd answer to one I just made up?"

"Uh..." The young dragon looked back over at Luffy. "...I don't know that it'd respond at all, really." He glanced around the cabin. "I wonder how long ago it's gotten out? Maybe it left the room."

"Hmm yeah maybe." Well there's no help for it. The beetle will come out when it does and maybe Sanji will only be a little mad. Maybe he's just exploring the ship or found a way to fly home. Either way, Luffy's not gonna stop him if he got out of the jar on his own.

So that in mind, Luffy flops himself crossways across the hammock, pushing himself off the wall with his feet and regards Lyrik a moment.

"What do you like to do for fun?"

Lyrik just hoped that it didn't surprise anyone too badly if they happened upon the bug.

"Hm? Oh, well...baking, I guess!"

"Baking ..." More pushing back and forth. "Do you like running around or telling stories or having adventures?" Because those a pretty big things with him right now. "You're not very good at bug hunting." Just saying.

What! Despite the fact that it might be true, Lyrik still looked a bit offended at the assumption. He folded his arms, snorting lightly.

"I'm not sure if I'm very good at telling stories. But I don't mind adventures, I guess."

"Tell me one anyway." He wants to see for himself if this guy is no good or not. If he's not, that's' okay, Luffy guesses, but he not so secretly hopes he's at least a little good.

"Eh?? What, right now?" Lyrik stared at Luffy a moment- it was difficult trying to figure out how this guy's mental processes worked. He scratched his head.

"Stories, stories...um. Aaah...all I can think about is the one the dragonlings like so much, about Pupu the dolphin..."

"Yosh!" He sat up immediately, sitting cross-legged and loosely gripping his ankles as he watches Lyrik with full attention. Make it good.

     "Uuuh..." The dragon scratched his head as he looked at Luffy. Wow, he was serious about this!

     "Well...it begins in the clear blue waters of the sea, where a dolphin named Pupu lived. He loved to play and frolic in the waves, and he made many friends with the fish and other creatures of the sea."

     Hmm, now how did the rest of it go again? Lyrik had heard the story many times as a baby, and Tirk and Lati had come to love hearing it as well.

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