The singing afro skeleton Brook made them curious, so they waved good-bye to Mikku, thanked her for everything, and headed to the concert.
There were tons of people there, but the Knables managed to see the stage. And there they saw him - Brook himself! Everyone around them
cheered for Brook, and some even had some Brook-themed merchandise. "A man who's dead, yet alive." Roy said "Reminds me of Crowley -
only with more hair and less of everything else!"
As the music started, so did the song:
Brook: Come on, baby!
People: Yeah!
Brook: Because I'm a skeleton, it's ....
People: Bone!
Brook: ...Bone to be wild!
People: ...Bone to be wild!
Brook: ...Bone to be wild!
People: ...Bone to be wild!
Brook: Bone!
People: Bone!
Brook: Bone!
People: Bone!
Brook: Bone!
People: Bone!
Brook: Bone!
People: Bone!
Bone! Bone! Bone! Bone!
(people cheer)
Brook: It's nonsense to become macho just to attract women
(pause)
Brook: Soul King is mysterious
He's nothing but bones!
Brook: Let's make today a great anniversary!
Everyone was so excited. "I'll bet this will be a great concert!" Helen said, smiling.
"Even if he's just a skeleton," Diane said, smiling "you have to admit he's a pretty good singer."
"But I wonder how he sings without vocal chords." Darryl said, a little confused.
"You know what?" Helen said happily "I'm actually enjoying myself. Who cares if we're talking mice? This is the most fun I've had the entire trip
so far! What could possibly go wrong now?"
"Ooooh I really wish you hadn't said that." Roy said, rubbing his forehead with his right hand.
"Why is that?" Helen asked her husband.
"Because whenever someone asks that in a cartoon," Roy replied to his wife, twisting his tail a bit with his hands "Something DOES go wrong!"
"Okay," Helen said, laughing a bit "now you're just being silly! I mean, sure we're talking cartoon mice in the age of pirates listening to an afro
skeleton rock out on stage with equipment that shouldn't have been invented yet, but do you really thing that just because I said that
something bad's going to happen?"
And then right on cue, a marine stepped up. "Pirate Brook!" he said angrily "Drop your instrument, and put both hands in the air!"
Unshaken, Brook said "Supporting band. Chorus. Dancers. Please accompany me for one last song!"
With a strum of his guitar, he continued "It'll be alright! My music has become more powerful!"
"You must be panicking." his manager said, pointing a gun at him "This is the end for you, Brook!"
"Manager," Brook replied calmly "thank you for taking care of me these past two years. And thank you for bringing me to this island. This is an
island of regret for us, filled with memories of defeat. It is also the island for our renewed departure! I am the musician. Raising the crew's
spirits during our adventure is my duty! Strawhat Luffy, dead? Nonsense! Tell this to the world, y'all! The Pirate Straw Hat Luffy ... is alive! He is
the man who will become king of the seas someday! Let's send him off with a bit of noise, oh baby! Love 'im to the bone!"
With that, everyone cheered, and Brook strummed his guitar "I dedicate this song to my dear companions. Please listen to my final Soul! Yeah!
Luffy-san, let's go to the New World!"
"You fool!" the angry marine said "The concert is over!"
"Shut up, Navy!" a fan said, as he covered the marine's mouth. "Please let us hear one more song!" a female begged the marine "Let him sing!"
"That's right!" another guy fan said "We don't care who the Soul King is!"
"See?" Brook said "Music is your ally."
All the fans cheered, as Brook said "New World."
As the music started playing, Brook sang this song:
Oh yeah!
Kid!
This is the story of a hero
The story of a man who will become king
In war there are no "do-overs"
But he stands firm with sandals on his bare feet
Oh yeah!
Come on baby!
Dreamers always struggle
Because sometimes their dreams are out of reach
In order to live through the days in which you have to battle your own demons
It's a big dream that seems quite a handful
But when he mentioned it, I could see it coming true
Today is the day we got tired of waiting
We don't need nights because we're short-temered
Today is the day
It's a great day
Kick the clock that was stopped
For the New World
For the New World
For the New World
The world is gonna change
(instrumental)
One more time!
The marines fired, and when the smoke cleared, Brook was gone, and there was a hole in the roof. All that could be herd was his laugh "Yo-ho-
ho-ho!"
"I believe that's our cue to go!" Roy said as he left and his family followed him.
Outside there was a ton of fighting everywhere.
The Knables knew it wasn't safe here anymore - they had to get out of here, so they snuck onto a ship with a lion's head on it, thinking they'd
be safe onboard since it looked friendly enough, but what they didn't know was that the ship was the Straw Hats' ship Thousand Sunny, and by
the time they realized their mistake, they were already underwater, and sinking to the bottom of the ocean!
From what the Knables could tell, the crew wasn't worried (at least, not most of them), and the water wasn't even coming in.
"At least they don't know we're here," Roy thought to himself "or we'd be in even bigger trouble!"
Then Luffy looked around at everyone.
"What's wrong, Luffy?" Nami, the orange-haired woman asked.
Luffy said nothing, but smiling he headed in the Knables' direction. "It's okay." he said "I won't hurt you. You can come out now!"
"Oy, who are you talking to, Luffy?" Ussop, the long-nosed guy asked.
"The nice family of mice hiding behind this barrel." Luffy said smiling, and he picked it up, reveling them. Ussop and Chopper were shocked,
Zoro and Sanji looked like they wanted to fight, while Nami, Robin, Franky, and Brook were curious.
"How did you know we were here?!" Darryl asked, scarred.
"AHHHHHH!!!!" Ussop screamed "Talking mice wearing clothes!!!" Then he wore garlic around his neck, and held up a cross "Please leave our
ship, demon-possed rodents!"
"It that what you thought the first time you met ME?!" Chopper yelled angrily at Ussop "We've also seen a talking starfish, and a talking polar
bear, so what difference does it make?!"
"Sorry." Ussop said.
"Just who are you guys, anyway?" Zoro asked, annoyed that mice had gotten onto the ship (even if they could talk).
"We're the Knables." Roy said "I'm Roy, this is my wife Helen, my son Darryl, and my daughter Diane. We don't mean any harm. We just wanted
to escape the fighting, so we got on your ship. We're sorry. We promise not to cause you any trouble."
Brook walked up to them, and looked down at Diane.
"You're a really great singer." Diane told him "Even if you don't have any vocal-chords."
"Thank you, Diane-san." Brook replied "And even if you're just a mouse-girl, you're the most beautiful one I've ever laid eyes upon," This made
her blush "but being a skeleton, I have no eyes. That being said, would you allow me to-" but before Brook could finish asking, Nami zapped
him with her Clima-tact, and he fell down on his face, still smoking.
"Why did you do that?!" Diane asked.
"He was going to ask if he could see your panties!" Nami answered, very annoyed "He does that with EVERY beautiful girl he sees! I can't believe
he still does that after two years!"
"It's a good thing you stopped him," Helen said "or I would've hurt him!"
"Yo-ho-ho-ho!" Brook said as he got up "You know me too well, Nami-San! I guess I don't think about those things too much."
"Maybe it's because you don't have a brain either!" Diane said, annoyed at him.
"That's right!" Brook said happily "I don't have a brain! Yo-ho-ho-ho!"
"So where exactly did you guys come from?" Sanji asked.
"Well," Roy said, scratching the back of his head "you wouldn't believe us if we told you!"
"Try us!" Zoro said, smiling "Stranger things have happened before!"
"Alright then." Roy said, and he told them his story.
When it was over, Franky burst into tears, crying loudly. "Even if you're just a mouse," the emotional cyborg said as tears ran down his eyes
"you're more of a man than I ever thought! Surviving Hell, escaping, and going back to save your beloved wife from being run over by a train -
it's SUPER BEAUTIFUL!!!!" and he covered his face with his right arm as he cried. "I'M THE ONE WHO WENT TO HELL!!!" Sanji screamed,
remembering the island of transvestives he'd spent the last two years at "Luffy got to spend two years on an island full of beatiful-" and he
forced himself to not have a nose-bleed as he thought about the Kuja pirates lead by Empress Boa Hancock. "Don't even think about them!"
Chopped yelled at Sanji "You've lost too much blood already!" "You guys sound like you had it pretty rough." Nami said "I had to spend almost
my whole childhood trying to pay back my own rotten deal that I made with a certain 'devil' I knew, so I completely understand how you feel."
"We all lost people we cared about in the past." Nico Robin said "I lost my whole island, Brook lost his old crew, Franky lost his mentor, and so
did Chopper, Sanji lost the people he sailed with as a boy, Ussop lost his mother, Nami lost her adoptive mother, Zoro lost his friend, and
Luffy...." at this, Luffy walked away into the cabin with a sad look on his face "..... he lost his brother only two years ago. You all are very luck to
still have eachother after all you've been through."
"So where is this ship going?" Roy asked.
"To Fish-Man Island!" Luffy said happily, as he burst back out of the cabin.
"Wow, that was fast!" Remarked Diane.
"Once we get there," Luffy said "we'll all be that much closer to our dreams coming true."
"I'll return to Laboon to play my crew's last recored song to him." Brook said.
"I've built the ultimate dream-ship, and now I'll sail with it to it's final destination." Franky said.
"I'll find the Rio Poneglyph, and unlock the true history of the world." Robin said.
"I'll become the best doctor in the world, and cure any sickness or disease!" Chopper said.
"I'll find the legendary sea, All Blue." Sanji said.
"I'll become a great warrior of the sea!" Ussop said.
"I'll make a map of the world" Nami said.
"I'll become the world's best swordsman." Zoro said.
"I'm gonna find Gold Rodger's treasure One Piece," Luffy said smiling "and ...... I'M GONNA BE KING OF THE PIRATES!!!!"
"This is gonna be one interesting trip." Roy thought to himself "I just hope we can survive it."
At that moment, .....