Apprentice’s Apprentice ft Roger and Whitebeard pirates
Lesson 3: Sneaking off can be Scary
Prologue, Chp1, Chp2, CHp4
A/N: HERE WE GO OMG HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE WE HAD A FEW IN A ROW? Guys I just discovered sprints and it is thanks to it that we got this chapter done!
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They should have known better than to think a three-year-old would listen to them and go against her curiosity, especially when that three-year-old was Dokucha, a kid who had taken after them and their stubbornness, a child who was currently getting closer and closer to the ‘enemies’ turf; more specifically, to a certain zoan-user.
Dokucha popped her little head out from the tree she had taken cover in, sneaking a glance at the blonde sitting criss-cross on top of a rock.
Snapping her body back into her ‘hiding spot’ as the man suddenly opened his eyes, gaze directed towards her, as another voice piped up.
“Hey, you’re with the Roger’s, right? You should not be on this side. We are currently in a cease-fire.”
“C’mon, Teach, she’s just a kid,” Marco called with a chuckle as he jumped down from his place and casually approached the kid, easily plucking them from the ground, leaning them on his hip.
“She’s so cute too,” He gushed, smiling at her, an expression that she happily returned, realizing that she had somehow ashieved her objective, ‘getting to the bird.’
“He is right tho, watchu doing on our side of the woods?” Marco wondered, digging his fingers into her side, watching her let out a cackle at the ticklish feeling.
“I waned to meet the bir man,” she admitted, wrapping her arms around his neck to keep herself from sliding down as she glanced behind him after hearing a slight snicker from one of his crewmates.
“Phoenix,” Marco easily corrected.
“Phoenix,” she parroted, looking up as a shadow enveloped both of them, shrinking once she noticed the huge figure of another of the whitebeard pirates.
“Hmm?” Marco called, looking up, and gave a grin once he noticed Jozu peeking in to see the child.
“Oh, that’s Jozu, he’s a pretty big guy, but don’t worry, he’s actually a softy!” Marco laughed, turning Dokucha around so she could look up at the man. Although she tried to hide herself at first, she eventually stared at Jozu for a second before extending her hands towards him. Jozu seemed to be in a trance as he stared at her, then grabbed her without saying a word.
“Zu?” She questioned, trying to sound out his name. In response, the teen couldn’t help the slight blush that appeared on his cheek, a small, dopey grin soon joining it.
“Oh! What about me?! My name is Marco,” Marco piped up, the same small blush in his face as he kneeled next to Dokucha after his brother had placed her down.
“Mako!” She echoed, letting out a squeal as Marco suddenly spun her around ,the exact same Dopey look his brother wore now on his face.
“You’re so cute!” He giggled, pulling her close.
Seeing the shift in attention, Teach slowly approached the group, something Dokucha noticed as she happily exclaimed.
“It’s you!”
“Me?” Teach repeated, confused, raising an eyebrow at her statement
“Yeah! My brothers weh talking about you! They say that that you never sleep! Bugs says that it’s kind of scary, but Shans says means you have so much more.... She rambled on.
Marco let out a slight surprised sound as she suddenly leaned closer to Teach, making the blond stumble at the switch in weight.
“I ike your eyes!” She noted, glancing at said eyes. Just like many three-year-olds, the girl often struggles to stay on task, causing her to frequently create confusion and whiplash at her quick switches in topic; something that, despite being around a child themselves, he was on the shyer side and had long since grown out of most sporadic quirks.
“My..Eyes?” he Gaped out, confused
“Boutiful Eyes!” she nodded, turning around as she suddenly remembered something, not noticing as Teach’s face grew red and he became bashful, turning away from the group and returning to his post.
“Mako, can you sho me the phenix, pleasee?” She begged, perhaps he had just spent a little too much time around his brothers tough love, but hearing someone wanting to see their Zoan form with nothing more than admiration pulled a heartstring in him that he didn’t even know he had as he preened in pride.
“Ye-
“Dokucha!” A voice hollered, causing all their heads to turn, spotting a blue and red head standing not far away.
“Come here!” Buggy Cried
“They don’t look too happy,” Jozu remarked.
“Woops,” she mumbled.
“Can you show me phenix later?” Dokucha whispered with a guilty face.
“Yeah! I will take you flying too!” Marco promised, rubbing his cheek against her as they both laughed.
“Hey! Get your hands off her!”
Marco couldn’t help but snicker at this as he placed her on the ground and watched her begin to scamper off, only to stop and turn around.
“Bye Bye Makko! Bye Zu! By pretty eyes! She hollered, waving them goodbye before resuming running, leaving behind the pink-cheeked boys and joining her brothers on the Roger’s side of the standstill.
Dokucha couldn’t tell how long she had to stay and hear her brothers scolding her, reminding her that she has to stay on their side lest she ‘Gets stolen by the Whitebeards,’ but it surely felt like an eternity. But did she listen? Absolutely not! No way she was missing on all the pretty plants the place had to offer.
To her defense, she hadn’t ventured past the invisible line the two crews had established for the cease-fire and instead had luckily conformed with collecting all plant life that caught her eye from a cliffside not too far away from the Roger’s Main Camp.
Although she had not ventured far, which had been the apprentice’s prime concern, it seemed the sea itself was determined to punish her for once again sneaking away from her brothers, as without any warning, the floor began to shake, and soon the sea started rising and falling in an impossible manner.
Dokucha had no time to prepare her little body and thus ended up tumbling down from the high cliffs.
It would have been a fatal fall, had it not been for the talons that suddenly swooped in and stopped her descent.
Looking up with teary eyes, she couldn’t help but gasp, starry eyes growing on her face at the sight.
It seemed that Marco had made good on his promise sooner rather than later, as he glanced down at the girl on his talons, a goofy grin on his face as he laughed.
“Mako”
“Looks like Pops got you!” he chortled.
“Pretty bir,” She awed, ignoring his statement in place of admiring the way golden and blue flames now replaced his arms, dancing around in erratic movements, seemingly being one with the carefree teen carrying the fire.
Again, he had been around the tough love, not only teenage boys engage in, but pirate teenage boys, and grown pirates, pirates that usually were not one to hand out compliments regarding one’s look, and especially not using such straightforward and wholesome words the girl in his grip was throwing out. So once again, he could do nothing but beam in pride, laughing gleefully and without restraint at the comment.
“Pretty cool, right?!” He boasted flying the both of them peacefully around the island.
“Ya!” she agreed, screaming in delight and excitement as the boy took that as a cue to show off, throwing both of them in a dizzying amount of loop-arounds and different but no less thrilling tricks the Phoenix engaged in, fueled by the girls’ cheering and laughing.
Blackbeard, Shiryu, Doc Q, Catarina Devon, Van Augur reaction to their crush falling asleep on them
Teach x reader, Shiryu x reader, Avalo Pizarro x reader, Laffitte x reader, Catarina Devon, Jesus Burgess x reader, Doc Q x reader, Van Augur x reader
description: Teach, Shiryu, Avalo, Laffitte, Devon, Burgess, Doc Q, and Van Augur (seperate) when their crush falls asleep on their shoulder
warnings: none
a/n: it’s so weird imagining Teach “soft”
Teach/Blackbeard
it was very late at night but Teach had dragged you along to a resturaunt because the crew was setting sale soon and he wanted a quick full meal before you would have to wait a week for that.
you sat next to Teach while he was eating, and eventually you eyes got too heavy to hold up- your head fell forward and landed on Teach’s forearm. he froze mid-bite and his eyes slowly moved to land on the sight.
he set his food down slowly, worried any movement would wake you. he literally sat their still as. a rock staring at you until Shiryu came to get him.
Teach wanted to let you sleep, but Shiryu shook you awake earning a death glare from Teach. instead, Teach insisted you climb onto his shoulders so you can get some more sleep on the way to the boat.
he was leaning against the wall polishing his sword while the the two of you talked, you sitting on the couch right beside him.
he noticed you stopped replying at some point then felt something hit his leg- he was about to scold you for hitting him when he looked down and saw you had fallen asleep against his leg.
he kept wiping his sword but he kept his eyes on you- Devon attempted to reach over and touch your cheek, only to have her hand hit away by Shiryu who glared at her until she moved seats.
once he was done he slid his sword into the holder and took you in his arms, carrying you out of the room and to the closest bedroom, which was his, and setting you down in bed. he threw the blankets over you before leaving, placing himself outside the door just in case someone decided to bother you.
Doc Q
so the crew had stopped to eat- Doc Q finished first and was waiting outside on Stronger (the horse) when you had come out and leaned against the horse.
the two of you were lightly chatting but after awhile you stopped responding and Q looked down to see you had fallen asleep against his arm that dangled off the horse.
he grinned as happily as he could and whispered about how lucky he was tha.t his crush had fallen asleep against him. he kept talking to your sleeping form, obviously you weren’t listening but he didn’t care.
when the rest of the crew joined you two and began walking, Q realized that he couldn’t have you ride on Stronger with him because of the horse’s awful health, and Q walking by himself was out of the question because of his health- so he soflty shook you awake
when you were somewhat concious he told you to hold onto his coat sleeve
so you did and while the group walked you leaned against Stronger with your eyes closed drifting in and out of consciousness
the horse led you kind of like a service dog while Doc watched you to make sure you didn’t trip
you were watching Burgess challenge a poor group of marines to fight him- just them against him- and Devon had pulled you into her and threw her arm over your shoulder while she rested her head on your shoulder.
she was whispering critiques about the fight when she felt you sway, so she peeked at your face and saw that you were just barely awake.
her eyes widened and a blush appeared momentarily.
she held back her laugh and smirked, waiting until your eyes finally closed completely.
then she scooped you into her arms and held you bridal style, allowing you to rest your head on her chest and continue sleeping- while she shot death glares at anyone who got too close or too loud
the ten titanic captains and Blackbeard were all sitting in a room on the biggest ship, they were all sitting somewhere around the room- and you were sitting next to Van Augur on the couch against the wall.
the rest of the captains were talking about something that Van Augur found quite boring, so instead he was reading the newspaper while you read over his shoulder.
he didn’t pay much attention to you and he even forgot you were next to him- until he felt something hit his shoulder.
he looked down and saw that you were sleeping peacefully against his arm, he smiled softly and moved a stray strand of hair away from your face, letting his knuckles run over your cheek carefully.
it felt like the world had disappeared around the two of you until the other captains broke out into a chorus of laughter as Burgess tried to challenge Devon to an arm wrestling contest. Van Augur frowned and looked back at you, quickly making up his mind and scooping you into his arms.
he walked out of the room ignoring the loud drunk teases from his crewmates, heading back to his own ship and placing you in you bed. he stayed by the door for a moment, admiring your sleeping face and your tranquil breathing before leaving.
Anonymous requested: If it isn't too much trouble, would you be alright with writing a scenario for Teach comforting his small, trans male s/o, as he struggles with feelings of inadequacy and wishing he was more manly? Thank you in advance, but I understand if you cannot write this. 💖
This was such a cute request that I just had to do it! I switched it to headcanons and they may be on the short side though just because I am a little bit unconfident since I am a cis female and I would hate to get this wrong. Thank you for entrusting me with this request and I hope you like it Lovely!
On that note, I need to say BLACKBEARD WOULD BE THE MOST SUPPORTIVE PARTNER IN THIS SCENARIO!
Marshall D. Teach (Blackbeard) x Trans!Male Reader
Warnings: Fluff, self-doubt from reader, so like a hint of angst
Words: 319
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First things first- If you are feeling unmanly, Teach would not put up with it
He would constantly affirm with you that you are the manliest and strongest person he knows and of course he is right if you are in his crew (I mean do you see how much trust and power he and his crew has?)
Speaking of trust, Teach trusts you fully with any mission that needs to get done and because he knows you struggle with feelings of inadequacy, he does tend to give you the harder missions just so you can prove to him (but more yourself) that you are more than capable than any other man in the crew
He will straight up fight (more like murder) anyone who says you are not man enough
He will go down proving you are
Also, I can’t stress this enough- It does not matter how small you are, Teach will be the small spoon on more occasions than one and this will boost both yours and his self-esteem
He will fight you for the position too lmao
He likes to feel vulnerable every once in a while, and since he has to be tough not because of his crew but because the marines and the world is watching his move, he can only rely on you, so you bet he is showing his full vulnerability around you and showing you there are more ways to be a man other than being big and tough
A bit off-topic but he knows you can fully take care of yourself, but he does watch out for you in battle
And much like Luffy with Zoro (you know the whole dragging around thing?) When Teach gets excited he will straight up pick you up so you can go exploring together
Anyway 10/10 he will not let you feel bad about yourself and will be your number 1 biggest supporter
summary: before you join the ouroboros on their way to origin, you want to fight against teach one last time!
"you want to fight against me..?"
teach looked at you a bit surprised, a soft smile resting on his lips.
"i do! before i'll head to origin, i want to make sure i'm able to beat you. if i can't even beat you, how am i supposed to take down Z?"
"i see…"
teach nodded, before drawing his blade. without warning you, he attacked and you managed to jump to the side just barely.
"in a real fight, your opponent won't be waiting for you to draw your blade!"
he reminds you, as he strikes again. you quickly draw your blade, dodging another attack from teach.
"i wouldn't have it any other way! go all out on me!"
once you had your blade drawn, you were able to stop dodging and instead finally got to attack as well. teach wasn't an easy opponent, but he had taught you how to fight well, so you knew which tricks you had to pull to win this. just when it seemed like teach had you cornered, you finally landed the last strike, teach's blade shattered by yours.
"you fought well"
teach smiled and rested his hands on your shoulders. you were still breathing heavily, the fight having taken a toll on you.
"did you hold back…?"
"i didn't! you beat me fair and square. and you'll be able to defeat Z as well. i believe in you!"
summary: teach gets jealous seeing you with the kevesi boys...
tags: established relationship, quiet jealousy (teach towards noah/lanz), wholesome fluff, cheek kiss, implied agnian!reader
you've noticed the way your boyfriend stared at you from afar, as you talked to the ouroboros group. teach was always careful around new people, but this time you knew he wasn't concerned about the kevesi boys hurting you. no, he was clearly worried about something else…
“you don't have anything to worry about” you whispered to your boyfriend, as soon as the six ouroboros left you two alone for a moment.
“i don't know what you're talk–” teach started, but you quickly interrupted him with a quick kiss on the cheek.
“you should know by now that you're the only one i've got eyes for~”
