The Shopkeeper's Daughter: Act 2

[desertbloomed]

Characters: Lots!
Where: The hospital; the shopkeeper's shop; just outside the Chocobo Farm; in the wilderness; on the plateau.
When: September 12-13
Summary: It's time for The Shopkeeper's Daughter to get properly underway. Here we have act 2!
Warnings: Possibly some violence...

Overture
It’s market day in Aqures Ixen. People stream out of their homes and into the common areas, carrying all kinds of items, for bartering is just as popular on these days as buying things outright. Market days always bring with them a special kind of energy. Anything is possible on these days. One never knows what treasures one might find for sale. Except, of course, for Baltoro’s Blooms.

Comments

[thegreatninja]

"IT'S YUFFIE!" She shouted over at Luffy and then crossed her arms to wait for the others.

[umslay]

Ales walked around Luffy so that there was someone standing between him and Yuffie. He didn't want another fight between them.

"Gears? What? Are you part robot?" That was the only context for gears that he had heard of.

[gomu_ningen]

"I wish! Being part robot would be awesome!"

He looks at his hands, marveling over how tiny they are in comparison to how they normally appear.

"It's what I call my technique. It's named after taking things into a different gear. Ya' know, like, 'kickin' it into high gear'? Like that."

There's a whole science to it, and unfortunately it isn't in Luffy to be able to explain it. With his body being primarily made of rubber, Luffy's internal organs and bones are able to stretch and expand at will. Pumping blood and an expedited rate allows him to move faster, hit harder, and more. Any normal human would be under extreme duress, but with his organs and veins being able to now handle it, it was a simple feat.

Turning into a 'chibi' version of himself, however, has yet to be explained.

"I ate the Gum Gum fruit, so I turned into a rubber man. That's why I can stretch."

[umslay]

He had to agree, having the strength and power of a robot would be amazing, but unless that was possible, Ales was happy being an unassuming Teensie.

But at least the naming now made sense.

"Rubber? That's pretty unusual. Why haven't you mentioned that already?" There was nothing fantastical about a person that can stretch, compared to the strangeness that is his world. If he got those powers from eating a fruit, however, it meant that most people in his world couldn't.

[gomu_ningen]

It's a rather quick remark, tilting his head to the side as he brushes a finger over the bridge of his nose.

"No one asked. 'sides, I didn't know I could use my powers until we were fighting that monster by the big chicken ra-"

His sentence stops suddenly, his body bursting into another plume of smoke so that the pint-sized Luffy was now back in his usual form.

"Phew! That's better! Any ways, I didn't really need to use my powers for anything, so I never noticed."

[neverfirstclass]

Cloud nearly fell back in surprise as Luffy was once more surrounded that puff of smoke, balking at the sudden change back to normal shape. It was funny how people kept saying that this world (and by extension his own) were odd for having magic, but here was something even stranger.

Pushing it out of his mind, he glanced over to Ashelia, "So...uh...what do we do now?"