Dream Cruise update

~~~Chapter 3
Luffy, Usopp, Brooke, and Chopper walked through the sunlit street, glancing back and forth with admiration. Chopper saw a bookstore and instantly dashed inside and started frantically searching for some kind of medical book he didn’t have.
“Excuse me,” he said with his cute little voice, “do you have a section for medical books?”
“Why yes, right over there,” replied a man wearing a simple uniform, directing Chopper to a small section near the back of the store.
Chopper had to turn into his taller and larger form to carry the various books he found. He was waiting in line to buy the books when he saw am expensive looking history book, just within his budget, along with his stack of books of course.
“I’ll get this for Robin,” he murmured to himself as a woman motioned for him and started adding up the prices of his books.
“That’ll be one thousand eight hundred belli please,” she said with a soft voice.
“You can keep the change,” said Chopper handing her his bag of money.
The coins clanked against each other as the kind lady counted tem quickly before sending Chopper off with a warm smile.
‘Nami would kill me if she had been there…’ Chopper thought, suddenly fearing Nami’s wrath.
Usopp found a roadside stand that sold the basic materials he used to make his ammo. He stood over the pricey items trying to barter with the bald salesman for a lower price.
“This much for low quality gunpowder?!” Usopp yelled in his frustration.
Brooke had every eye on himself, being a walking skeleton and all. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a polished and well made piano in the window of a store that was going out of business soon.
“Excuse me,” Brooke said politely as the store owner shrieked, “how much for that piano?”
“J-just take it! T-take it and L-leave us alone!” the man screamed in fear.
Brooke jumped with joy as he pulled out a den den mushi and called Franky.
“Franky-san, I found a piano and I need help carrying it!”
“Sounds supah! I’ll be there in a minute, where are you?”
“At a music store, you’ll see me if you walk straight down the road in front of the ship.”
Luffy, being the meat head he is, found a teriyaki stand and bought every piece of meat they had. In fact, he simply forced the bag money onto the salesman and ran off with all the meat, over paying him big time.

When they were back at the ship, Nami praised Brooke for not spending any money at all. Yet she hit everyone else with her climatact for wasting theirs on something stupid.
“Here,” Chopper said, handing Robin the book he had bought her.
“Thanks, Chopper-kun,” she said with an illuminating smile on her face.

~~~Chapter 4
The ocean sparkled as its spray splashed against the gleaming side of the Sunny Go as it floated gently in the harbor. Usopp, Chopper, and Luffy were rolling down their small slide, flopping out into the grass covered deck, laughing like small children.
Once again, Zoro was snoring peacefully in the crow’s nest, his three swords at his side. Well, actually, peacefully doesn’t quite explain it. He was snoring quite loudly.
Nami had her head held over a half-done map of the nearby seas, smiling confidently at the current state of the chart. Robin lay in a sun chair next to the table, sipping a fancy looking drink while reading the book that Chopper had bought her.
Franky was hard at work buffing out any scratches or any other minor injuries to his beloved masterpiece, the Sunny Go. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and took another large gulp of cola, sighing loudly as he put it back in his chest compartment. Sanji was carefully examining the recently caught fish, debating on which one would make the best quality dinner. His eyes turned to hearts whenever he thought of Nami or Robin.
Brooke sat at his new piano under the deck, practicing his skills, which were somewhat rusty after having spent all that time drifting on a broken ship through the Florian Triangle.
A torn piece of paper flew through the air, gently floating down in front of Chopper, who was conducting experiments on the sun soaked deck.
“What’s this?” he said, picking up the flapping piece of paper, “a carnival?”
”Let me see that,” Nami said, looking up from her map and snatching the paper away, and she read the paper out loud: A Pirate’s Carnival! All pirates are welcome! Scheduled for noon tomorrow! Entry fee of 1,000 belli! Take it or leave it!
“One thousand belli?!” Nami screamed angrily once she finished reading, “That’s outrageous! We’re not going!”
“Aw, c’mon Nami!” whined Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp.
“It could be fun, Nami-san,” said Robin, gently suggesting the idea.
Nami sighed and said, “Well, I guess my hands are tied then, we’ll go.”
“YEAH! CARNIVAL!” yelled Luffy.
“But we don’t know who’s going to be there, since that part of the flier was torn off,” said Franky, sticking his head up over the railing, “so be on your guard, mugiwara.”
Robin gently laughed as Luffy, Chopper, Franky, and Usopp danced happily, exited about the event. And in truth, even Nami laughed a little, unable to contain the excitement that welled up in her as well.

~~~Chapter 5
The big top wavered ever so slightly, striped with orange and white. A strangely dressed pirate was accepting belli from the guests, giving out seat numbers directing the people into the huge tent. A large, brightly colored ship floated gently behind the tent. It gave the same feel that a circus would, several cannons mounted on its front. Its flag and its sails were down for the time being.
“That ship looks familiar…” said Nami, going through her memory trying to find a match.
“Oh well, let’s just get inside and get this over with,” Zoro grunted with drooping eyes and an annoyed look on his face.
“Thank you, you will be situated in the front row, lucky dogs,” said the man as he greedily took the fee out of Nami’s hands, “now please go inside and take your seats. If you get hungry, there a concession stand to the left of the entrance, you can’t miss it.”
Luffy’s eyes got wide and he began to drool when he saw the fresh meat being grilled behind the woman taking orders at the stand. Obviously, Nami had no choice but to buy everyone something, causing her to silently cry as they took their seats in front of the vast ring.
“Heeheehahahah!” laughed a clown dressed with an orange pirate hat, orange cape, red and white striped shirt, and baby blue pants; his big red nose made some of the kids in the audience giggle, “Welcome to the pirate’s carnival! I’m your host, captain of Buggy’s Band of Pirates, Buggy the Clown!”
Luffy, Zoro’s, Nami’s, Usopp’s, and Sanji’s jaws all dropped.
“Luffy, isn’t that the guy who tried to kill you in Logue Town?” Sanji asked, quickly turning to Luffy.
“Yup, Buggy the clown,” replied Luffy, chuckling at the coincidence.
“This is my lovely assistant, the eater of the slip slip fruit Alvida!” Buggy yelled, launched his head and his hand that was holding a microphone into the air, “Oh yes, I am the eater of the chop chop fruit!”
A beautiful woman with a sweater tied around her waist, long pink and white striped pants, a white bra, and a purple vest seemed to skate on her bare feet into the arena off of the top of a tall ramp. She held onto her white western hat as she circled the arena before coming to a halt beside Buggy.
“And now, my first mate, Mohji the Beast Tamer, and my second mate, Cabaji the Acrobat!”
Mohji, a man wearing a white fur top and head piece, blue pants, and white fur paw shaped shoes, came into the arena riding a large, pale-looking lion. Cabaji, a man with half of his hair in stripes, wearing a scarf and vest, which both reached his ankles, and white pants, rolled in on a unicycle on the same ramp that Alvida had used.
The lights dimmed and a spotlight focused on Buggy’s body, which his head and hand quickly returned to as he said, “Now, let the show begin! Heeheehahahah!”