A Princess Rages

**Date Started:** 08. 22. 2022
**Date Completed:** Ongoing
**Previous Role-Play:** Leagues from Wreckage
**Next Role-Play:** Carnival of Fears
**Users Involved:** User:Haraxmant, User:ThePirateKingmaker, User:EazzyMacc
**Setting:** East Blue, Ocean, Near Loguetown
* **Pirate**: Armani D. Lazuli, Yoshoku Bonny, Ilphen Kagu

### Enter Wreckage

With her new ship, new allies, and new ability to control her ship, Laz easily made her way into East Blue, commonly known as the weakest of the blues, but that didn't matter to her, it meant the people here had more to prove, more reason to be angry, or break things alongside her. The idea sounded so fun, she just couldn't wait! She rushed to the side of her ship and began cupping around her eyes, looking for any sight of people.

Far off in the distance, she saw it, a ship waving a black flag, pirates! "Starlight, head to their ship!" Laz commanded, the Starlight shifting direction, picking up wind and pushing off toward the opposing ship. As they neared the ship, Laz spoke once more "Starlight, pull alongside them, fire a set of cannonballs, and throw me over!" She commanded, she was insane, for a devil fruit user to be thrown over water? It was suicide. The first volley fired off as a rope wrapped itself around Laz's waist, lifting her into the air and throwing her towards the opposing pirate ship.

Laz tucked herself into a spin before tackling one of the pirates on the deck "I'm taking this ship!" she commanded. "Like hell you ar-" a man rushed up to her, angrily. Laz quickly headbutted the man, causing his nose to spurt blood, but before he could even react, she palmed his face and shoved him overboard. "Who's next?!" she called out.

From under the deck, the scrambling of feet could be heard as three other pirates burst through the door. "She's crazy man! She's frickin' crazy! It's a headless monster!" Seeing Laz standing on the deck, their faces fell even further. "OH GOD! What's going on!? Are we cursed!?"

One of the three was pulled directly through the doorway into the dark underneath just as if he was caught by a monster in a horror movie. The other two pirates scrambled away as a short, thick-set woman in dark leather clothes and curled black horns stepped into view, chewing on the remains of what looked like an old mattress, half of the furniture still held in her hand as she spoke.

"Gooooaaaahahahaha! This is what the PEASANTRY is reduced to seeing my beautiful form!" She brutally kicked on of the men between the legs, holding nothing back. The image of a cracked and leaking egg would be summoned to mind. "You DESERVE this! No one forgets that I'M A PRINCESS! It is PRINCESS Slave! Or PRINCESS Captive! Or PRINCESS Servant! God, why did you even CAPTURE me if you can't even follow the rules." Seeing Laz on deck, her cheeks puffed out. "Are you the captain of this disgusting ship? You need to teach your servants how to address royalty properly."

Laz was taken back by the sight of this strange woman, but at the same time, enthralled by her energy. She set off an alarm of chaos within Laz's mind that she hadn't seen in a long time. "Me?! The Captain of this pathetic lot? Hardly." She said, before doing a cartwheel, grabbing a bottle mid-roll and smashing it across a man's temple as she landed. "I just wanted to do something fun, and taking this ship sounded fun!" she added, before a sword sliced past her body, another pirate attempting to kill her. The sword did no damage at all, breaking apart into rust as soon as it contacted Laz.

Laz turned and headbutted the man, following up with a push, throwing him into the ocean. "Well, what's your deal, Princess?" she said, though the way Laz used princess was meant as an insulting manner, it probably wouldn't land as such. "Coming up from the ship, attacking the pirates. Did they kidnap you? Or is this some strange fetish thing? Cuz if so-...nevermind." she added, shaking her head at the final comment.

Bonny gasped in shock as the woman spoke to her. "GAH! Someone with manners! FINALLY!" She stepped forward, looking up at the much taller Laz. "My DEAL is that I was captured by these nitwits but even captured, I am used to a modicum," she knelt by one of the pirates, shouting in his ear. "A MODICUM OF COMFORT!" She kicked him in the ear before turning her attention back to Laz. "I am the Pirate Princess Yoshoku Bonnabel Bonny, the Pirate Princess, if you didn't hear that part. And despite repeated warnings, they refused to acknowledge my royalty, so I had to show them a little teeth." She grinned, her mouth lined with three different rows of serrated triangle chompers. "And who're you? Another Pirate here to try and take advantage of this helpless lass?" She tried to look innocent.

Laz was surprised, she took a crossed-legged seat on the deck and looked up "Modicum? That's a pretty big word. I guess that's proof enough of your heritage." she commented with a laugh "I left all that stuff behind, it was way to constricting!" she added, it was funny one of the first people she met was also of noble blood. "Well, if we're doing full names, I'm Armani D. Lazuli, of the Noble Armani family. But that's for the 'PrOpEr'" she said, mockingly spitting the word proper from her mouth. "I go by Laz now, Laz the Wreck, Captain of the Wreckage Pirates." She stood back up and looked to her ship as it began pulling up alongside their current one "As for...what I want? I just wanna have fun and do what I want, really. I'm tired of all the rules and regulation, the prim and proper, the content and safe...You know?"

She moved over to the side of the ship, stepping up and walking along the rail of the ship like a balance beam, her arms spread outward "I just came from the New World, looking to build a crew here in the East, and eventually, I dunno. Maybe I'll form an empire? A collection of people who share in my idea-" she shook a bit, almost falling from the rail "Ooh- Yeah, just surround myself with people who do what they want, take what they want, and.." she looks around at some of the bloodied bodies and jumps down, standing near to Bonny's face "Ain't afraid to fight for it." she smirked.

Bonny stopped listening halfway through, head lolling to the side and a snot bubble appearing to show she was asleep. Snorting awake, she huffed. "I heard Noble Family. Okay, Laz the Wreck, I like your idea of fun, but you haven't shown me nothin' I haven't been able to do myself." She crossed her arms. "So you're some kind of Captain, huh? Then as Princess and now your responsibility, I'll take on the role of First Mate and Chronicler of the Story of our crew, because you obviously have the Noble heritage I've been looking for in a Captain." She grinned up at the much taller Laz as she got closer. "Despite your use of the word 'ain't', like a hillwilliam, I think you're the best link I've met yet to make it to my beautiful dream of my own Kingdom. You need my Nobility and smarts. We should go to the top together!"

A couple thugs ran up from behind Laz, trying to attack her, but her fists launched upwards, she shouted a cheer as Bonny mentioned joining her crew. The thugs were launched backwards and over the edge of the ship. "YEAHHH!" She shouted excitedly "Chronicler, eh? I guess it'd be important to keep track of our adventures, for sure." She said, before moving towards the center of the ship and began piling various wooden objects. "So, you want your own Kingdom? I thought you said you were nobility, and a Princess?" She asked, cracking apart a wooden board over her knee and tossing it into the pile. "Why don't you tell me about that? I sorta, renounced my nobility, kinda. I guess it's not the same for you?" she continued.

As another thug emerged to slash at Bonny's neck with a cutlass, the Princess grabbed one of her horns and lifted her head off of her shoulders. Her head turned around and grinned at the shivering man before her head rushed towards him. In a frenzy of bloody haze and chewed up clothes, Bonny's head viciously attacked the man like a swarm of Piranhas before returning to her shoulders. Adjusting her head, Bonny smiled. "I am a Princess of the Goa Kingdom, but dirty Rebels took over my land and killed my family, just because they boarded up a bunch of commoners in a mine when they went on strike. I was saved by a dashing Robin Hood-type fellow and I took my late Mother's ship to sea and made it here." She gawked at Laz before holding her hands up. "Hey, you can renounce your Noble blood all you want, but Captain, you're still a Noble. You can't argue with heritage. But yeah, no. I'm NOT going to renounce my heritage, I'm a beautiful fairy tale princess and I just need to find my Kingdom." Her smile turned cold as she wiped blood from her face. "And I'll get my Kingdom of Happiness and Love no matter who's face I need to chew off."

More sounds of combat echo out from below deck but don't last long. The fight stops and the only sound is the clink of chains getting louder. A few moments go by and a young man with messy hair and a dazed expression on his face appears. He walks up from the lower deck with chains around his wrists and ankles. His white shirt and pants are heavily stained and ripped in numerous places that indicate they haven't been well kept. Colorful tattoos cover nearly all of the exposed parts of his body. He also carries a cutlass in one hand and it resembles the ones the pirates had used to swing at Laz with no affect. The man stares at the two women for a moment then raises the blade of the cutlass to his mouth. He takes a bite out of the metal and begins to chew it as if it was a piece of bread.

"Oi are you two the ones makin' all this noise? Its way too early for this kinda commotion..." He mumbles his words while he chews on the metal sword. He swallows and then takes another bite out of the blade in his hand.

Laz raised an eyebrow "Dirty Re-" but before she could fully reply to Bonny, a another man came from inside the ship "Looks like you missed one, Princess." she commented before moving towards the man. "Early?" she questioned, looking puzzled, as the sun was clearly beating down from overhead. "You're not from here, huh?" she said, before squinting her eyes, leaning forward and sniffing at the man a bit "Yeah, you don't smell like these guys either.." she smiled and pushed a pack of matches into the mans chest "It's always time for commotion, silly. Otherwise it'd be expected, and not actually be a commotion... I think" she walked past the man and over to Bonny again, standing beside her and shouting to the new guy "You can't be first mate, Bonny already has it, but if you burn this ship, I'll give you the Mayhem position!" she shouted, before leaning in to Bonny and whispering "He's kinda cute..." she said, nudging at bonny with an elbow.

Bonny grinned and wiped slobber from her chin as the man came out eating the cutlass. She clapped. "Oh he has good taste. Yes, join us, JOIN US!" She violently thrust her hips in the air. "He's not one of the slavers though. He may have been in one of the other cages underneath." She clapped excitedly. "Except those slaves who didn't escape don't get to live. The strong will live! The weak will die! Now burn the ship down and I'll accept you as my personal servant and you can also join our crew, I guess." She smiled and licked her lips. "BURN IT! BURN IT! BURN IT!"

The man blinks a few times and yawns. It's pretty clear that he has just woken up and is either hungover or still drunk. He takes another bite of the sword while he looks the two women over. It's also pretty clear that he is a lot more reserved than the two excitable women before him. Hearing the offers to join their crew he decides that would be better than staying on whatever slave ship he sold himself too when he was too drunk. He opens his mouth wide and with little effort swallows the rest of the sword, handle and all. He chews for a moment then bites the center links of the chains connecting his feet and hands. Now that he is able to move freely he stretches his arms and popping can be heard from his back.

"Hmmmmmmm that's a good one. Yeah I'll go along with you two, but I'm no one's servant. But you two are kinda cute so maybe I'll let you boss me 'round a bit." He grins at the two ladies. He takes the matches that were handed to him at places it on his tongue like a breath strip.

"So you wana be on the ship when I light or what?" He chews the matches and gulps them down. A mischievous smile comes across his face as he asks his question. Small blue flames erupt over his hands and arms as he looks at the women.

"*Very* Cute." Laz corrected, before turning towards the edge of the ship "But, you're right." She added before stepping up to the rail again, grabbing onto some ropes, leaning out and giving a loud whistle "Starlight, pull up alongside us!" She shouted across the water, her own ship springing to life and following her commands. As the ship pulled alongside them, they could note that the ship itself was completely empty. Laz hopped over and onto her own deck once more. She leaned down to touch the boards "Starlight, these two are new friends, we're gonna take them with us, once they're on board, take off." she commanded once more, standing back up and waving the two to follow her.

Bonny, despite being the shortest of the three, smacked the man in the arm. "Hey! Introduce yourself to us, you weirdo! Also, I am PRINCESS Cutey, remember that! I know you're probably a peasant but that doesn't mean you can disrespect me." She pulled her head off and shook it in frustration. "URGH! TEMPER TANTRUM!" She cooled down before ogling the ship down below. "Cooooool! You command respect even from boats. That's awesome. One day I'll have someone run a ship for me, but you can do it for now I guess." She rotated her head around. "I'll grab what I can from the kitchen. No sense heading out to sea without food. Don't set it on fire until I'm out, or I'll bite your ass!" She rushed downstairs.

"My name is Ilphen Kagu. I guess I am a peasant by birth but I've never been a big fan of titles. So apologies, your Highness, but I prolly won't remember to call you any title." Kagu does a mock bow as Bonny walks by him to find the kitchen. "You'll bite my ass? Is that a promise?" The blue flames dancing off his grow larger before retreating into his skin. He appears to be completely normal again but the smoke that begins rising from around his feet reveal that he is still using his devil fruit powers.

"I'd say you have about a minute before this joint sinks. I'm guessing you ate a devil fruit since you can take your head off so I'd recommend getting on the other ship."

Bonny heard literally nothing beyond 'apologies, your Highness'. She chortled and waved him off gently, ignoring anything else he said. "Goabbleablleablle! Think nothing of it, Mr. Kagu! Your apologies are not needed for the royal me. You've shown gentlemanliness manners so just remember to NEVER. EVER. FORGET. That I am a Princess." She scurried off to the kitchen, her Piranha-sharp nose sniffing out the remaining good food and drinks on board. She bundled them up in a bedsheet, slinging them over her shoulder before emerging. It didn't take a hyperactive monster like her long. "Phew! Alright, I'm here, so we can leave."

Seeing Bonny emerge with her haul Kagu increased the output of his flames. Blue fire spreads out from around his feet and he walks over to Bonny. Making sure to keep the flames from her he scoops her up in a princess carry.

"If I may, your highness, I wouldn't want you to get a splinter." Once she is in his arms he releases a blast of fire from his feet that pushes him into the air. The torrent of blue flames break open the deck of the ship and shower splinters and embers over the rest of the ship. The ship groans as flames sweep over it and the roar of the inferno grows louder. Kagu holds Bonny close to his body to make sure he doesn't drop her or her haul as the pair soar through the air some thirty feet over head. The trajectory of their launch brings them down directly in the center of Laz's ship. A few feet before they land Kagu lets out another, much smaller, burst of fire to slow down and lessen the impact on both himself and the ship.

"I do hope you enjoyed the brief ride." He speaks in an obviously fake posh accent as he lets Bonny down from his arms. He Then glances over at the flaming ship as it creaks and moans from the raging fire that consumes it.

"A beautiful sight isn't it."

As soon as they met the deck of the ship, it took off from its position, and Laz watched as Bonny and Kagu launched over onto the ship, and even applauded at their landing "Very nice! We're rea-" she said before an explosion from behind her, the other ship, and launched her forward, falling flat faced on the deck. "Ouch.." she groaned before rolling over and sitting up, cross-legged. She watched as the fire in the distance got farther and farther from them and she smiled "We're gonna make so many people mad!" she laughed.

Turning around on her buttocks, she faced Kagu and Bonny before patting her hand on the deck next to her "Come sit! I wanna learn more about you guys." she scratched her head before jumping up to her feet "Ooh wait, I have an idea" she said, rushing into the ship, a clatter could be heard before she made her way back out, a beer bottle in her hand, held up, almost empty, as she chugged the rest of the liquid from it. she pulled it away and gave a satisfied sigh "Here!" she added, before sitting back down on the deck of the ship and placing the empty bottle in front of her "We can spin the bottle, and when it lands on you, you share!" she explained, eager to play with her new companions.

Kagu raises a brow at Laz's actions but simply does as he's told. He sits down near her and crosses his legs. He takes a knife from his waistline and begins chomping on it.

Bonny gasped as she was lifted and dropped like a real princess. Her heart fluttered and her smile was genuine until she was set down. Flustered, she smoothed her shirt and cleared her throat. "I... thank you, Sir Kagu." Still flustered, she sat across from him and next to her captain. She remained strangely quiet, avoiding looking anyone in the eyes and uncharacteristically quiet.

### Sharing is Caring

Laz grinned and spun the bottle, throwing her hands in the air "here we goooo!" she shouted, watching the bottle spin and spin. It was so exciting, who was it going to land on?! It slowed, and it had stopped on....Laz, she spun and it hit herself "What a bummer! That's no fun." She sighed before tapping her temple with a finger. "mmm, okay. My name is Armani D. Lazuli. I come from noble blood, the Armani family, we're pretty powerful, well some of us. Like my cousin owns this huuuuge gambling place in the New World. Oh, I'm from there, the New World I mean. But, you know, that life never really was for me, I didn't like being coddled and told how to act." she said, snapping to an alert and sit up position, using various hand motions to assist her story. "The ship is from my cousin, and then I ran into Henry Avery and this cute dude, they brought my ship to life, her name's Starlight. So I made them a promise to be allies, right? So once we reach the New World we're gonna team up and break some shit." she paused for a moment before continuing

"a-and I also uh, I ate this fruit and it lets me break things, but not like you guys, I don't really eat things, I can rust things, not just iron but like, even people, it's basically like, an immunity to metal weapons as well. It's why those guys back there couldn't stab me" she laughed. She reached forward and grabbed the bottle "I think that's it for me...well, wait do you guys have questions?" she let go of the bottle and sat back up again. "I shouldn't get ahead of myself, I'm sure you have something you wanna know more about?" she asked.

Kagu looks interested as Laz speaks. His relaxed expression doesn't give anything away and it's anyone's guess what he could be thinking.

"Noble blood huh? Looks like you both have a leg up on me then. I'm from the South Blue but I've spent a lot of time in the New World as well. Oh, I guess I shouldn't be sharing cus it didn't land on me right? Oops." He smiles and shrugs a bit. "As for questions, what are you doing out here if you were born in the New World? If you just wana gather crew surely there are stronger options in the New World?"

Laz nodded as Kagu said that he shouldn't be going yet, as it wasn't his turn. She listened to his question and scoffed "It's kinda simple. People in the New World, they don't have the same drive or the same passion as people here. They have all this power but no respect for it. Either that, or that wanna destroy shit because they think highly of themselves, I don't really like that." she answered

Bonny grinned wide, rubbing her head and scratching her scalp. "Wait, questions? So if we're gonna gather a crew to get stronger, I dinnae think that me bein' the first mate is a good idea. I'm beautiful, charming, fantastic, sexy, powerful, alluring... I forgot where I was going..." She dazed out for a moment. "Oh, right. I'm all those things, but I'm NOT super strong. Yet. But I want to be known for being beautiful, not..." She stuck her tongue out, a heavy iron ring piercing the middle of the long length. "Being someone else's number two."

Laz paused "Thats...a fair point Bonns...You should get a spot that really shines and displays you as what you are, not as my second...hell maybe no one gets the second seat then, I don't want any of you to feel like you're under my rule." She flopped backwards and looked up to the sky. The ship creaked a bit and Laz nodded "Yeah..that means you too Starlight." she said, though it was unclear if Laz could speak to the ship, or if she just replied to a natural ocean creaking.

She flung upwards "Oh duh! Bonns! You can take the Carnage spot! I seen the way you tore through those men with your teeth, if anyone deserves that, it's you!" She jumped up and pointed to the sky "Headless Prin-, no they'd just make fun of that name sexually... Bloodlust Bonny! Maybe? and then-" she pointed at Kagu "Uhmm, how about..Kagu of the Ashes? ugh. I'm no good at this. Oh!" she quickly flopped back to her sitting position and grabbed the bottle again, spinning it hard "almost forgot the game!" she added, before the bottle came to a stop on Kagu. "Right, Kaguuu, tell us!" she finished, awaiting his reply.

"Hmm...well I come from a small island in the South Blue. Parents were merchants so we were pretty well off but not anything close to royalty. I worked as a kinda disposal unit for a long while when I was a kid. Also powered forges for a bit but that got boring fast. My cousin is some big shot pirate I guess, part of a Yonko crew I think..." He scratches the side of his head as he thinks of other things of interest to add.

"I spent some time with a crew in the New World but those guys were all really fuckin' weird. The original captain dipped out and this mad scientist type took over. He gave me creepy vibes so I left and just wandered. Did some odd jobs, got in some trouble, sold myself as a slave to pay off some debts, now I'm here." He speaks rather matter-of-factly, not thinking much of what he was sharing.

"Kagu of the Ashes doesn't sound bad. It's pretty spot on and self explanatory so I kinda like it. Do you have a name for yourself?"

Bonny slammed her hands on the table, making the bottle jump. Her cheeks puffed out furiously. "IT WILL BE PRINCESS BLOODLUST BONNY OR I WILL BURN THIS ENTIRE SHIP TO THE GROUND!" She smoothed her shirt, clearing her throat. "Sorry, sorry, seems like that's gonna be a trigger. I'll introduce myself since that dumb bottle hates me. I am Princess Bonnabel Bonny, the Midnight Snacking Princess of the Goa Kingdom." She grumbled. "Until that damn rebel went ahead and ruined my PERFECT LIFE!" She tried grabbing her temper back. "A... anyways, my Father, before he left, made a Perfected Ancient Devil Fruit! And I was the one he blessed to eat it. I can basically chew anything to ribbons, my head floats... and... that's it." She shrugged. "You lot better protect me."

Laz burst out in laughter as Bonny lost her temper once more "Of course Bons! I'll march straight up to the marines and demand they take your title seriously if I have to. But, I'm not sure all of that can fit on a bounty poster." she commented before laughing again and looking to Kagu "I do have a name, it's Laz the Wreck!" she laid back on the deck again, looking up to the sky "Wow, what are the odds we're both from the New World and we met in the East, crazy circumstances- wait did you say you sold yourself? You're not very smart Kagu!" She laughed again before sitting up and looking to Bonny.

"The Goa Kingdom, huh? Do you ever think of going back?" she mentioned, then pointing to herself, then Kagu "With us three, we could take it I think, but I don't know how well we'd be able to keep it intact. We're kind of only good at breaking things so far" she tapped on her lips a couple times before continuing "I think we should take a stop at an island and stock up, then we take the supplies a- HEADLESS PRINCESS" she suddenly shouted mid-thought "That can be your name, with your head coming off and all!" she seemed awfully excited by the revelation and completely forgetting her previous plan.

Bonny rolled backwards and clapped, laughing hard enough that her pudgy round head rolled off of her shoulders, giggling on the floor as her body stumbled around trying to find it. "GOABLEABLEABLEABLE! Yosh! I love it! I am the Headless Princess Bonny! All fear my rule and my teeth and this THICCNOSH!" She wiggled a bit as her body picked her head up and stuck it back on. "Good job, my sexy body!"

Kagu watches the pair with an amused look on his face. He thinks about the crew had been on for a short time in the New World, and how different these two were. This was much more his speed, none of the crazy plans or experiments he had seen before. Simple and fun was what he was after and to him this is the perfect start.

"We need to make sure we stock up on plenty of booze when we dock. Oh, and Laz I wouldn't say I made a dumb decision. IF you can borrow all the money you need and all you have to do is sell yourself as a slave and then escape I call that a pretty good deal. Plus, it got me here so that's a good thing too." He smiles at his new friends.

Laz laughed alongside Bonny, she was a good time to be around for sure! She then nodded to Kagu "You're right, Booze is verrrry important." she stood up and rushed into the ship, returning with a map "I took a couple of these charts to help us find islands." she said, before looking into the distance off the port-side of the ship "Oh, nevermind then." she said, before tossing the maps overboard and cupping her hands around her eyes to look at the island in the distance "who knew we were so close..." she commented before holding her hands out, still cupped like binoculars "Take a look, d'ya think they got booze?" she offered to whoever was willing to look.

Kagu chuckles and walks over to the edge of the ship. He holds Laz's wrist as he leans in to look through her finger binoculars. He looks at the island for a few moments.

"Hmm...I can't imagine many populated islands don't have booze. Wherever there's people there's something good to drink in their mugs. I don't know what island that is though. I don't really know where in the sea we are actually." He stands up and hands Laz back her own hand binoculars with a grin. "So, captain, how do we proceed?"

"It's real simple Kagu." she stated, taking her finger binoculars back and looking through them. "We blend in, gather supplies, party a little bit, figure out the rules, and then break them!" she said before giving a hearty laugh, she leaned back and slapped the railing with laughter before looking shocked and looking over the side of the ship "I dropped my binoculars!" she said, before pausing for a moment, realizing she never had any to begin with, she cleared her throat and walked calmly to the center of the ship "right...Starlight! Take us to that island!" she said, pointing towards the island, the entire ship creaked and began shifting, changing course toward the new island.