One Piece: Dream of Immortality

Chapter 476: Rotten Luck



"She's marvelous," Yamato admired the Thousand Sunny. "I've never seen a ship like this one. Or like you either, I suppose."

"Mhm! Franky is the best shipwright in the world! The shipwrights at the Ballywood Kingdom are world class, but he makes their work look like child's play in comparison," Cabernet said. Yamato opened his mouth to reply, but a deep gurgling growl emanated from his stomach at the same moment. He closed his mouth and blushed.

"Hahaha, let's have a look around the kitchen," Cabernet laughed.

That said, Cabernet didn't know how to cook. She had watched over Sanji's shoulder from time to time, but any explanations he gave about what he was doing and why went in one ear and out the other.

It didn't help that Cabernet didn't really have to eat, so it just wasn't a skill she had any great interest in learning.

That was okay, though. Yamato was here and he probably knew how to cook, right?

Cabernet went into the kitchen pantry and found that it wasn't as well stocked as it usually was. None of the fresh meats, vegetables, fruits, cheeses, or other perishables were present. "Hmmm," Cabernet hummed, before just grabbing whatever she could find in amounts enough to feed ten people. Her perception on ordinary portion sizes might be skewed a little bit.

"The only meat in here is some dried beef jerky," Cabernet told Yamato as she set down a bunch of stuff onto a counter.

"Oh, we can catch some fish!" Yamato said with confidence.

'Yamato is a genius,' Cabernet thought, nodding in agreement.

...

"How did it come to this?" Cabernet asked.

"I'm not sure," Yamato answered.

"Sanji is going to kill me..." Cabernet mumbled.

"Surely he wouldn't kill you over a little mess!" Yamato encouraged her.

"Little?" Cabernet asked and Yamato's expression lost its confidence.

In reality, calling the state of the Sunny's kitchen a mess at all was just blatantly incorrect. That it could still be called a kitchen was a small miracle that neither Cabernet or Yamato could explain.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Where would we even start?" Yamato scratched his head as he mulled over that impossible problem.

"I think it's best to start..." Cabernet scanned the room with increasing trepidation. "...running!"

Cabernet flared her wings and launched herself towards the door to the deck with a single flap. Yamato only paused for a second before chasing after her.

"If anybody asks, we were never here!" Cabernet decided.

"R-right!" Yamato agreed hesitantly. It wasn't the honorable thing to do, but Oden had also been a pirate, hadn't he?

The two of them fled the scene of the crime against the culinary world and into the forest. It could be someone else's fault, as far as they were concerned.

"We should go find Cherry, now. She'll get those explosive manacles off you in no time!" Cabernet said.

It was then that they nearly ran straight into a man that they hadn't noticed as he stepped out from behind a tree. He was blond with long hair and had tattoos over his eyes in place of eyebrows, along with a small cross tattoo on his collar bone.

"You're...?" Hawkins squinted his eyes at Yamato.

*blam*

Yamato drop kicked him in the head and sent him flying into a tree.

"Why'd you do that?" Cabernet asked.

"I'm pretty sure he's one of Kaido's cronies!" Yamato informed.

Hawkins stumbled to his feet. Yamato could have easily knocked him out normally, but with

the sea stone cuffs on him, it wasn't that easy.

"Wait...!" Hawkins held up a hand.

Cabernet flew at him, grabbed him by the legs and swung him around until-

*crack*

-she smashed him into another tree.

This time he truly was out for the count.

"It's a good thing you recognised him! I might have just let him go on his way!" Cabernet said.

"Mhm, I don't want anyone knowing where I am right now," Yamato nodded.

What neither of them knew was that Hawkins had no intentions of returning to the Beast pirates.

He had gotten his ass kicked more than enough times for his liking and didn't fancy Kaido's chances of getting out of the coming war in good shape, if at all. So he had planned to flee the country and bet on Kaido being in no position to come after him.

Alas, he hadn't had the chance to claim as such, let alone be believed. It was just one of many ways in which his luck has turned rotten in the last few days.

"Hey, is that a boat?" Cabernet pointed.

"Looks like half a boat?" Yamato corrected. "It's mostly just a hull. Looks like he was building

it?"

Cabernet looked between the half-boat and Hawkins and the tools scattered about. She smiled.

...

Hawkins blinked his eyes open and rubbed the weariness out of them. His head was aching up a storm, enough that he was growing seriously concerned about how much head trauma he had suffered in a rather short period of time.

Sitting up slowly, he looked around to get his bearings.

*fwoooosh*

The sound of a waterfall entered his ears, growing ever louder. The horizon in the direction of the sound was somewhat misty and wasn't as far away as it ought to be when looking out to

sea.

Hawkins' eyes widened and he scrambled up, desperately searching for something, anything, that he could row with before his boat tipped over the edge into the unforgiving waters of the New World below.

His makeshift oars were thankfully in the boat with him. He first tried to summon his straw man to row for him, but all that popped out was an un-animated scarecrow.

"Why do I have such skinny arms?! Why didn't I work out more,; just because it didn't fit my aesthetic? Idiot!" Hawkins berated himself.

He rowed like mad, but it was too late. His efforts only slowed down the inevitable and he tipped over the edge of the waterfall with a feeble scream.

...

"Well, that's that!" Cabernet clapped the sand off of her hands. "I wonder if we'll meet

again?"

"I don't think he'll be meeting anyone again..." Yamato said, feeling somewhat icky for sending an unconscious man on a voyage to his likely death, enemy or not. "Now can we go

meet this 'Cherry' lady?"

Cabernet nodded and started to run. Flying would be faster, of course, but they weren't trying to get spotted by any more of Kaido's minions. The two of them weren't all that slow on foot

either, though.

A few minutes later they encountered an empty village. Yamato looked like he swallowed a lemon as he looked around at the obvious signs of a raid on the settlement. Burned homes, smashed doors and windows, broken tools used as makeshift weapons of self defense.

"Ahhh?! You're on fire?!" a little voice called out.

Cabernet and Yamato turned to see a little blue haired girl who was panicking at the sight of a flaming woman. Before either could say a word, an old man in a tengu mask and stilts leapt

out of nowhere.

"Stay back, Tama! These two are bad news!" the old man leveled a sword at them. "To think

that Kaido's right hand man, King, was a woman all along!"

Cabernet and Yamato glanced at each other and burst into laughter.