A/N: XD Now I revert to the OP storyline … -parades around- Okay, 'Cursed Idiot' and the first 'arc' of 'Cursed Love' is set between Laboon and Whiskey Peak – except that Mr. 9 and 'Miss Wednesday' didn't get a lift to Cactus Island. Although we see them in … 3 … 2 … 1 … go! Hang on, after disclaimer!
Disclaimer: Me no own, you no sue.
Okay, now … 3 … 2 … 1 … go!
"Miss Wednesday, do you think these … pirate scum … will take us to Whiskey Peak instead of the next island along?"
"Yes, Mr. 9. They seem inexperienced, and they should be easy to convince."
"Yosh! Bye bye, baby!"
The partners high fived, before sneaking up the stairs to deck, where they found a situation.
A blonde girl walked out of the quarters, a carrot top lady by her side. The two were dressed in tiny bras, showing off their cleavage, and tiny miniskirts, one in blue, the other in green. Also, the girls had large sunglasses covering their eyes.
"So, where were we, Nami?" the blonde whispered to the red-head.
"I think I remember." Turning to the crew on the ship opposite and waving, she asked out of the corner of her mounth, "Isn't it the 'seduce and run' part?"
"Yep, that's it," she said. "I think I'll start now."
The blonde-haired girl giggled, and lowered her glasses, looking straight at the captain in an innocent and cute way.
The captain stayed silent for a minute, looking at the breasts of the two. Then he shouted, "We want all your women and all your gold?"
Nami bristled, from where she was, next to Athenus. Give up her gold? Go to hell!
Athenus had to step in. "Does Athe count?" she asked in a high-pitched voice. She vaguely remembered addressing yourself by your name instead of saying I was meant to be cute. Athe just thought it was annoying.
The captain guffawed. It took all of Athe's patience not to unleash a harmful mind wave out at him. "You're a woman aren't you?" he asked.
She nodded. "But, captain, Nami says Athe's a whore!"
Silence.
"A whore, huh?" the captain asked, stroking his non-existent beard.
"Athie-chwan!" The cry came from Sanji, who rushed out onto deck. Athe just hoped he remembered the plan. She didn't want to hurt him psychologically.
"Sanji-kun? What did you want?" she asked rudely.
"Athie-chan? What's up with you? I was going to fix you a dessert?"
"Forget it." Athe turned around, completely ignoring the fellow blonde.
His voice dropped to an almost whisper, which sounded almost mournful. "I thought you loved me."
A cold, high, uncaring laugh echoed through the afternoon air. "Did you really think that? Athe hopes you realise Athe's only after the bounty, and that's exactly why your captain's tied up in the galley."
As the drama unfolded on deck, two figures crept onto the Going Merry.
"She's something, isn't she, Miss Wednesday?"
"Yes, Mr. 9. Maybe we can recruit her."
Meanwhile, the opposition's captain's eyes grew wide at the sight of the cook and the cleaner. But, unfortunately for him, this left him and his crew distracted.
Strolling nonchalantly from inside the kitchen, Zoro made his way onto the main deck, and slowly drew his swords, putting Kuina's sword, Wadou Ichimonji, in his mouth.
"Unfortunately for you guys, they're just pretending," Zoro said, speaking around his sword from his heart. He smirked, then slashed the ship in half with, "Oni Giri!" and sheathed his swords, turning his back on the dismembered ship.
Floundering hopelessly in the water, the crew splashed around. Walking back inside, the Mugiwara Kaizoku-dan had forgotten about one thing. Or, more specifically, one person. The captain. He had jumped onto the railing the moment Zoro had attacked.
"Now, don't y'all go forgetting about me!" he drawled amicably, spreading his arms wide with a large grin on his face. The picture seemed incomplete, since he had no cigar in his teeth.
Spinning around furiously, the blonde Athe morphed into her normal persona, and worked the kinks out of her neck.
"W…what?" The captain was shocked.
Athe smiled wolfishly. "You have heard of the Akuma no Mi, right?"
Stepping back in apprehension, his eyes betrayed his cowardliness.
Interpreting it correctly, Athe strutted menacingly towards the cowering captain. "And I only joined just recently. What has the world come to?" she asked herself in the captain's hearing.
Turning back to the captain, she fixed him with a death stare. "Now, I don't deny I'm a whore. I've probably fucked one hundred times more than how many people you've killed. But what really pisses me off is what an idiot you are." Standing in front of him, she yelled, "Momtong Jirugi!" and solidly punched his torso.
"Next, Board Break!"
There was a crack, as the captain fell back into the water. His body fell into the water with two splashes – one for each perfectly divided half.
"Oi, and while you're down there, remember one thing. I'm a fully-fledged member of the Mugiwara Kaizoku-dan, and I plan to stay!"
She then turned and looked at the cook with kind eyes. "Don't worry, Sanji. I still love you." She moved forward, and tried to take his hand. Sanji completely ignored her, and jerked his soft hands out of reach. He lit a cigarette, and walked away.
Athe stared at the fleeing figure that was Sanji. Unbidden, a tear leaked down out of her left eye and snaked down the side of her face.
Shouting after him (1), Athe snapped, "And if you wanted to know, Luffy is at the table, safe and sound, eating meat!"
In the opposite direction, she went downstairs to her bed, and started crying. Even if she was sixteen, she had had a hard four years, where she only had one person who cared for her. Her okaa-san, Faden-sama. And then there was that Zoro incident …
Athe just didn't seem to have good luck sometimes.
(1) In PotC2, where Elizabeth shouts out to Jack, Will and Norrington to stop fighting. That's how Athe shouts after Sanji. XD
Mr. 9 and his blue-haired counterpart hid in a closet, and watched out the sliver between the two doors at the young whore crying. Looking at each other, eyebrows raised, they remembered the confidence she had exuded above deck.
And now, the girl was a crying wreck.
One of them must have made a sound, for the brunette spun around, and looked at the wardrobe, the door being slightly ajar.
"Come out, you two. I know you're in there."
The duo looked at each other incredulously, both thinking the same thing – how did she know?
"I know because of my Devil Fruit ability. Ooh, wow. Just come out."
Somewhat reluctantly, the two Frontier Agents stepped out of the wardrobe, and looked at the black-haired girl. She smiled freakishly.
"Hello, Mr. 9, Miss Wednesday, nice of you to join us. I was wondering when you'd show up."
Sanji moped around with his cancer stick quietly smoking away. He made a pair of mikan parfaits to busy himself.
Floating around like per usual, he delivered his delectable treat to Nami, but he didn't have the heart to go downstairs to give the other to his … lover.
What was the situation here? Was he still in love with her? That was a definite yes. Was she still in love with him? He thought so. But, did she still love Zoro? That was the unanswered question.
But, he supposed, fingering his cigarette, Zoro had Nami to care about. So, he shrugged, she cared for him. But why did Athe say that on deck?
Sanji's eyes widened, and a sound was made by his cigarette falling on the floor.
"Pirates!" Usopp yelled from the crow's nest. He was on duty, even though he had I-can't-go-up-to-the-crow's-nest-for-duty-itis. Zoro had … persuaded him.
"But never fear! The great Captain Usopp-sama will defeat them with his crew of 8,000 men …" Usopp again went off into his fantasy dream world.
The Jolly Roger on the ship approaching featured the tradition skull and crossbones, except they were flipped upside-down.
The Luffy Pirates gathered on deck to have a 'council of war'. Zoro and Luffy voted to fight, but then again, that was stereotypical of them. Just as Nami and Usopp voted not to fight – more specifically, run and steal.
Sanji was going to vote the same way as Athe, but she suggested an idea that she had. This way, they could fight, hide and steal.
"Yosh!" they shouted as the ship closed in on them.
Now to put the plan into action.
Sanji lit another cigarette, and thought. Maybe it was time to deliver Athe her dessert, after all, it would be ruined if it wasn't refrigerated straight after assembling. Or it would be pilfered. What that thought in mind, he went below deck to find something very different to what he had expected.
Next time on Cursed Love …
The crew finally meets Mr. 9 and Miss Wednesday, and with them, the start of the Baroque Works Saga. Onwards to Cactus Island we go!
Two Frontier Agents! An Old Friend!