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Hat - Chapter 2

Summary: Roger get’s his first (second) mate.

Chapter 2 - Gol Arc: Serendipity Siver

What? Don't you think that getting shot constitutes as an excruciatingly painful ordeal?

Haaah? What do you mean "Suck it up, you're a Hat"?! I'd like to see you get shot and call it anything less than traumatizing.

Well screw you too! I don't know why I made you such a jerk.

Oh you have something else you want to say? LALALA I'M NOT LISTENING.

Alright fine. What is it?

Huh. That's actually an intelligent question.

So, the thing is, it turns out that the way I was "seeing" the world was actually Observational Haki. It makes a weird amount of sense too. I am incapable of seeing with any sort of vision, but Haki is Willpower and though I do not have a body, I most certainly have Will. It is what keeps me aware even though I am supposed to be inanimate and non-sentient. After explaining it to him, Roger and I were able to figure out the basics of all three Hakis.

Speaking of whom, Roger was the tipping point. I finally realized that this world is the world of One Piece and that I was his infamous straw hat, now Hat. Though, how would I have guessed that? The only things I ever heard about were the marines and pirates and the large amount of sea travel used as the primary mode of locomotion. I mean, there was that one time where Beanie had me within a meter of a map when he was giving directions to a traveler and mentioned the Grand Line, but I thought he was talking about a really thick line on the paper that indicated an area to go around.

...Okay fine. I really should have noticed earlier.

ANYWAYS, The two of us traveled alone for a while. Roger hitched a ride from ship to ship. He was determined to finish traveling through all the Blues within the next two years. Apparently, he already scoured the North, and East Blues. The two of us met in the South and the West was his final travel point. And then he told me that he wanted to travel the Grand Line.

:: No. ::

"Aw come ooon!" Roger whines in the cargo hold of the latest ship he managed to worm his way onto. "It'll be fun!"

:: The last time you said that Roger, you dived head first into a pit of carnivorous, gigantic squirrels. No. ::

"Ah, that worked out fine." Roger dismisses. "We got a lot stronger from that too."

:: No. ::

"It'll be an adventure…" Roger tries to entice Felix.

:: I reference the event prior. No. ::

"Are you afraid?" Roger needles. "Is that it? Did the tales of the Grand Line we heard frighten you away?"

:: Roger, you more than anyone else should know that I fucking loved those stories. All that hilarious death and destruction… No. The reason I refuse to let you just go and traverse the Grand Line is because you want to do it with nothing more than a fishing boat and the two of us. If you do that, we'll both die. Or rather, you will and I'll find out if Hats can die. ::

"Oh, is that all." Roger easily brushes aside Felix's concerns. "We're plenty strong. We can totally handle it."

:: We have a basic grasp of Haki by sheer luck and can take on most of the people we might encounter on the Grand Line, yes. But the Grand Line is a sea that will kill a fishing boat with no problem. The only way that it might, emphasis on might, survive is if we reinforce it with Haki and even then, one of us will have to maintain it at all times, which neither of us is capable of doing. That's not even mentioning the weather. ::

"The weather?"

:: On the Grand Line, weather can change at the drop of a hat, pun fully intended. A ship would have to be able to withstand harsh and violent weather. We would also need a Log Pose not to get hopelessly lost in there. ::

"A Log Pose?" Roger pauses and asks, "And how do you know this stuff anyways?"

:: I'm a Hat that can think and you're questioning my knowledge, now? After all the times I used it to help us? No. Forget it. Don't answer that, I'll never understand your lines of thought. How I know it doesn't matter. The point is, we're nowhere near ready to traverse the Grand Line. Ask me again when you have a boat and at least one crewmate that's strong enough to survive. ::

"Strong enough?" Roger prods the brim of his Hat. "Felix? Felix? Don't ignore me!"

The door to the cargo hold opens and a curiously blank faced sailor steps through. He actively ignores Roger's wave hello, picks up what he came for, and firmly shuts the door behind him.

"...I blame you for this."

Sigh.

Roger frowns. "Yeah. Okay. Thanks anyways." The ridiculously buff and tattooed guy walks off, fully intent on achieving his dream to be a seamstress after conversing with Roger. "Man, why is it so hard to find a strong guy with a ship." Roger complains aloud, gathering weirded out looks.

:: Because it's not going to be that easy. You're probably going to need to get a ship first, and then recruit when you look more capable than you do right now. And how many times do I have to tell you! Just send your thoughts at me! Do you want someone else to think you're cra- you're insa- you're hearing voices? You don't need talk, just thi- well actually, that might explain a lot of things. ::

"Oh, Ha Ha." Roger rolls his eyes, takes off his hat and spins it on his finger. He walks towards the docks, trusting his friend's advice. "You're absolutely no help. "

:: Stop spinning me! ::

"Never." Roger freezes. "Hey, do you feel that?"

:: Feel what? I can't feel anything with the way you're turning me in circles! ::

Roger dashes off, still spinning his hat around his finger. He skids to a stop once he sees a blond haired man lounging in a boat and drinking a flask of some kind of drink. The sea breeze blows across Roger's face and carries with it the strong scent of alcohol. Roger's grin nearly splits his face. "He's strong!" He crows, absolutely ecstatic. .

"Heeeey!" Roger calls out, waving the hand that had his Hat in it at the man, heading closer to talk. "That's a nice ship!"

The man shrugs. "I stole it. My house burned down so I'm living here."

:: Asshole, stop spinning me already! ::

"Fine, fine."

:: ….Huh. Now that I can sense him, you're right. He is pretty strong. ::

"Strong enough to go to the Grand Line?" Roger thinks hopefully.

:: ...Mm. Maybe not the New World just yet, but he'll be able to handle most of Paradise. All of us would need to become Haki masters to handle that; or in his case, learn Haki and then master it. ::

"Yeah? And what's your name?"

"Reyleigh."

"I'm Roger!" He says cheerfully! "I think we were destined to meet, Rayleigh!'

Oh you have noooo ideaaaa.

Rayleigh jerks his flask from his mouth slightly, skeptically. "Destined?"

Roger beams and offers, "Do you want to turn the world upside down with me?"

"Huh? The world?" Rayleigh looks at Roger both stunned and amused at once. "Hahaha. Who are you and where are you from? Go away!"

Roger ignores him. He never took no for a first answer. Most of the time he never even took it for a final answer. "Your ship is small, but it looks like it can endure storms if you handle it right. It's perfect for us to set sail in!"

"Us? Set sail?" Rayleigh asks, narrowing his gaze, outraged. "Don't decide for me! Why should I join you?"

"Like I said," Roger rolls his eyes, intent on bulldozing over Rayleigh to get him to join them. "To turn the world upside down!"

He hops aboard the ship and gives Rayleigh a cheeky grin. "Alright, let's set sail, Rayleigh!"

"When did I ever say I would join you?!" He yells, getting up for the first time and pulling Roger from the sails. "And stop messing with my ship!"

"Ho?" Roger tilts his head. "So you care that much about this ship then?"

:: Roger, I can hear what you're planning - you're thinking too loudly - and I fully support this idea. Go for it! Make him want to join us by annoying him until he starts to see it as his responsibility to look out for you. I could sure use the help. ::

"Nyahahaha!" Roger laughs and turns and points a finger in Rayleigh's face. "Then, I'm taking this ship! And if you want it back you have to join me!"

"Who said you could just take it?" Rayleigh asks darkly, glowering at the audacious man before him and raising his fists for a fight.

"Me." Roger gives him a confident look. "You're strong, I can feel it, but I'm much stronger."

:: Eh, that's a bit of an exaggeration, isn't it? You'd be… about 60 percent likely to beat him in a fight without Haki. Haki is the ultimate cheat. ::

"That still means I would win!"

:: No, it just means that you're more likely to beat him. ::

However, I don't doubt that, win or lose, you'll get him to join us.

"You bastard." Rayleigh growls. "Fine, if it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get."

Roger smiles. "That's the spirit! Then how about I up the ante?" He taps his chest with a finger. "I'll give you a clear shot. If you can hurt me, I'll leave and won't bother you to join again. If you can't then you'll join my crew!"

:: You're seriously going to use Haki for something like this? Well, I suppose it's not completely unreasonable. We do need him, but really? I know you're a sore loser, but to resort to something he absolutely cannot beat… ::

"That arrogant?" Rayleigh smirks running a hand through his hair, confident that he was being underestimated for his lounging earlier.

"Nope!" Roger instantly denies. "I'm just know you won't be able to win!"

Rayleigh carefully considers the man before him. On one hand, he had the sheer gall to say his punch will do shit against him, and that's just not going to fly. Rayleigh knows he's strong and he won't stand for being disrespected like that. He doesn't really want to follow anyone either, but.. What this guy said about turning the world on its head… When he said it, it sounded more real than anything else in the world. And really, what has he really got to lose? He's been drifting from island to island for a while and he can't deny he's getting bored. It might be interesting to see what someone like him could accomplish.

"If you win,-" Rayleigh starts.

"I will!"

"-then I will join you on the condition that I can leave whenever I want." Because he's not stupid and he's not going to agree to someone else's terms when he's the one being challenged.

Roger opens his mouth.

:: Wait! What would happen if he leaves a few minutes out to sea and strands us without a boat or supplies? Change the condition to- ::

"Okay, but you have to make sure I have at least five other crewmates, a ship and supplies to survive until the next island before you do." Roger counters as instructed. "You can't leave before that."

"Eh." Rayleigh shrugs. "That's fair. So we doing this then?"

"Yep!" Roger spreads his arms. "Come at-"

Rayleigh strikes before he finishes speaking, but it wouldn't have changed a thing. A moment later and Rayleigh is rubbing his fist as he stares with shock at the fading black on Roger's chest. "A Devil Fruit?" Rayleigh mutters.

"Nope." Roger shakes his head. "It's called Haki. But that's not important right now. You're joining my crew right?"

"I guess I am." Rayleigh muses, a faint smile on his lips as he relaxes again. If nothing else, he might be able to get this guy to teach him how to do that before he leaves. "So where exactly are we going 'Captain'?"

"Before that, you have to meet our other crewmate." Roger takes his Hat off and proudly presents it to Rayleigh. "Meet Felix."

:: Rooogerrr… What are you doing? I know you can hear me! You can't just turn off the Voice of All Things! ::

Rayleigh stares at the Hat. Then at Roger. Back to the Hat. "Did I just agree to join a madman?" He mutters to himself.

"Hey!" Roger protests. "I'm not crazy! Here, I'll show you!" He slaps his straw Hat on Rayleigh's head.

:: Hey! Be more careful when handling me you bastard! ::

Rayleigh adopts a freaked out look on his face. "What the fuck?"

:: Oi, no need to worry. You're not going insane. I'm just the Hat on your head. And yes, I'm fully aware of how outrageous that sounds. Hey, maybe you really are going mad and I'm just trying to keep you from getting the help you need to get rid of me. ::

"Don't chase him away when we just got him!" Roger argues. "At least he didn't try to immediately destroy you!"

:: If he tried to do that, I would have crushed him. We both have that one after all. And I'm not forgetting the fact that you revealed what I was without asking me first! I'll find a way to get back at you for that, so help me Goda. ::

"What kind of crazy did I just get pulled into?" Rayleigh asks himself, about five kinds of done right then.

Regardless, Roger answers anyway with a laugh and a brilliant grin. "Only the best kind!"

#Fanfiction: Hat #One Piece #Gen #Friendship/Adventure #OC #Gol D. Roger #Silvers Rayleigh

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