One Piece: Letters

[what_we_dream]

Title: Letters
Fandom: One Piece
Pairings: None
Rating: G
Notes: The dates are minorly important. In that, you know, the years change/

Summary: Chaka and Pell can't always discuss. So they use the next-best thing.

July 1st, XX80 Alabarna
Pell,

Igaram still wants to fire you. I’d lay low if I were you.

C.

PS: Your expense report is due.

PPS: Do not take Vivi-sama flying. Igaram’s watching.


July 2nd, XX80 Alabarna
Chaka,

I’m aware.

P.

PS: It’s on your desk.

PPS: Thanks. This would have been more helpful to know before I did. If you need anything, do it yourself. I’m on probation.


July 5th, XX80 Alabarna
Pell,

Don’t know where you are, but Igaram says you can come back.

Terracotta made him.

C.

PS: I didn’t tell you that.


July 6th, XX80, Alabarna

I don’t know where you are, but I’m back and your work is now on your desk again. It’s not as though you have enough to justify taking up two.

P.

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November 18th, XX82, Alabarna
Chaka,

Just got back from Erumalu; nothing to report except they need more practice with moving targets. Going to bed.

P.

PS: Why is everyone so jumpy?


November 19th, XX82, Alabarna
Pell,

Here’s the duty roster. Igaram wants your report. But he’s probably forgotten.

Vivi-sama got into a fight. His Majesty says she’s making friends. He and Igaram are stalking her. We’ll need to run supervision; I put it in the roster. See you tomorrow.

C.


December 3rd, XX82, Alabarna
Pell,

Here’s my report on the kidnapping incident. His Majesty wants me to inspect the possible site for the new village. I should be back in a week – I amended the roster.

C.

PS: Try to keep them out of trouble.

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March 14th, XX89, Rain Base
Chaka,

Here’s my report on the pig pirates. I forgot their name. Igaram made me edit the initial dendenmushi reports to favour the Shichibukai Crocodile in light of His Majesty’s approval – consider doing the same if you don’t want to rewrite yours. I’m going back to deliver them, I’ll see you in Alabarna.

P.

PS: Bring some rock candy back for Vivi-sama, I don’t have time to pick it up.

April 1st, XX89, Rain Base
Pell,

Crocodile has confirmed his intention to open a casino here; my report is enclosed.

There’s nothing here. I don’t see how this can possibly be a viable enterprise, and yet he seems certain. Perhaps his connections will bring in an initial wave of support, but even a Shichibukai does not have unlimited resources.

If he fails, it will hurt Alabasta. And I don’t see how he can succeed. He won’t listen to my advice, and I cannot speak candidly knowing it goes against His Majesty’s wishes. This could do a lot of damage.

C.


May 15th, XX89, Rain Base
Chaka,

The reports are true, it has rained heavily here twice since the casino construction began. The natural aquifers are saturated; the water will last some time. It would be enough to support a small village, but unless it keeps up it cannot possibly support the crowd a casino could potentially draw.

I don’t have your nose, but as much as I dislike Crocodile I cannot find a scent of wrongdoing. And we know Crocodile’s devil-fruit power; he cannot be making it rain. Entirely the opposite.

The people here believe it is a legitimate miracle, brought by Crocodile. We are not a country traditionally blessed by miracles.

My official report is enclosed,

P.

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August 7th, XX89, Nanohana
Pell,

My official report is attached. It was as the initial reports said; a large quantity of Dance Powder was spilled in the main street, in the care of men claiming to be in His Majesty’s service. I have ordered the Dance Powder destroyed. The rumours will not be stopped so easily, however, without any unusual rain patterns we are for now at least able to combat them.

Chaka.

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July 24th, XX90, Erumalu,
Pell,

My official report is enclosed, but the just of it is that the city is dying of drought. I have informed Igaram that Alabarna must send support for these people, but it has not rained here in more than a year.

As a coastal city, it is doing better than Yuba, but the thirst is still palpable. We must increase the numbers of Guards here. Everything is in short supply, and everybody is thirsty.

Start working out the figures; I’ll look over them when I get back.

C.


July 26th, XX90, Alabarna
Chaka,

I am working on the figures. It’s not heartening. With the need to police Rain Base and its booming population, as well as the drought-stricken cities, our resources are already spread thin. But we are also bleeding numbers as the men lose confidence. And with all the doubt here in Alabarna, we need more troops than ever to ensure riots don’t break out. That damned Dance Powder has cracked, if not shattered, the trust of the people.

I fear what will happen if Yuba falls, and that anger breaks over the nation.

P.

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September 3rd, XX90, Nanohana
Chaka,

They’re gone. I can’t find them. They must have stowed away on a ship, no one knows anything – or they won’t tell it to me. And I can’t leave the country as it is now. I can’t follow them.

I couldn’t bring her back.

By the time this message arrives, I suppose I will have reported this to His Majesty. I can only take comfort in the fact that that means I must have found the words somehow.

P.

PS: How can we save the country without them? Without her?


September 5th, XX90, Alabarna
Dendenmushi message
Pell,

Return immediately.

Chaka.


September 7th, XX90, Alabarna
Chaka,

His Majesty has ordered me to Yuba to check the conditions there.

I would rather he blame me than himself. Don’t say anything.

P.

PS: Look after things.


September 7th, XX90, Alabarna
Pell,

You’re an idiot. Come back as soon as you’re done with your evaluation. His Majesty regrets his actions already. You should have stood up to him.

They’ll come back.

C.

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December 3rd, XX90, Yuba
Chaka,

Toto is sending a delegation to request aid in relocating his people. He doesn’t want to leave, but the drought is terrible. The city is finished, until the rains come again. If they do.

Kohza refuses to speak to me. Perhaps you should have come instead after all.

P.

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January 4th, XX91, Rain Base
Pell,

It must be the Dance Powder. There is no other solution. It must be, but there’s no hint of it here, no scent at all. But how can it be that it does not rain here, yet there is always water? It must be related to the rain in Alabarna having little effect. It must be, and yet how is that possible? This riddle will break us.

Crocodile is still a smug bastard. I would break his scarred nose for him, if His Majesty would allow it.

It may be bringing money into the country, but this place is festering. I can feel it in my bones, it’s unnatural, diseased, poison. It makes my teeth ache. You can come next time.

I want to throw him off our soil. Why –

C.

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January 20th, XX91, Yuba
Chaka,

Yuba has been evacuated. Toto refuses to leave. Kohza and the rest of the Sunasunadan were already gone when I arrived with the relief. Toto is confident they have gone to Alabarna, but he doesn’t know who they will stay with. He believes, for all their anger, that they will realise it is directed at the wrong person.

All our good people are drying up like the northern plains, splintering into brittle shards. While Crocodile and his lackeys grow fat on our despair. No one in Yuba will move there, no matter the prosperity. You are not the only one who scents the poison there.

These people mistrust me. The rumours are strong here, despite all His Majesty has done for them. Thirst drives all memory from the mind. Why will it not rain?

My official report is enclosed.

P.

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February 28th, XX91, Alabarna
Pell,

Here’s my list of active Rebellion members. Add all those you can think of. It won’t do any good, but at least we can be doing something.

Kohza is at the top. Stupid, stupid boy.

C.


March 3rd, XX91, Alabarna
Chaka,

I’m going to Katorea to evaluate the Rebellion activities there. I’ve made all the additions I could.

I pray we find a solution to this before Vivi-sama returns. It would break her heart.

P.


March 10th, XX91, Katorea
Chaka,

The Rebellion has practically taken over the city. Even those who do not support it do not speak out openly against it. Even here, where the drought has had a lesser effect than most other cities, seeds of doubt are so easily sewn.

I am recommending to His Majesty that he reduces the aid to Katorea, as there is no way to prevent it getting into the hands of the Rebellion and they can draw sufficient supplies from external trade. Short of sending in the Guard to tear the city apart, which would benefit none, I can think of no other possible course of action.

There is no point in pointing out that the one I have recommended has few merits: His Majesty will not authorize it in any case. Our hands are tied.

If it does not rain, there will be armed rebellion before the end of summer.

P.

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May 21st, XX91, Alabarna
Pell,

I couldn’t wait for you to return from patrol; 20 men just resigned together and I have little doubt about where they’ve gone.

With their resignation, we don’t have enough men to maintain an easy schedule. From now on until things calm down, we’ll be working 12 hour shifts with one of us on duty at all times. I’m assigning you day for the first week, unless you have a conflict. Looks like it’ll be a while before we have time to chat again. As if there were anything to chat about now.

C.

PS: Keep an eye on His Majesty, he’s not taking the inactivity well.


May 25th, XX91, Alabarna
Chaka,

I broke up a brawl today in the glassblower’s street. Some kid tried to stab me in the back. We aren’t symbols of Alabasta anymore, not as she is now. Don’t count on that. Not that you would.

P.

PS: Igaram was always much better at that.


May 28th, XX91, Alabarna
Pell,

You’re on night shift starting the day after tomorrow. Keep an eye on the stabling quarter, there’s been a lot of activity there.

We will fix this. Somehow. We have to.

C.


May 31st, XX91, Alabarna
Chaka,

The remaining men are loyal, but it’s difficult for them breaking up fights with their friends, with former colleagues. If war breaks out, I am not sure we will be able to hold the line. Perhaps we should discuss His Majesty moving to a safer location.

No, I suppose that would be a waste of time.

We must keep our faith. In His Majesty. In Vivi-sama. In the rains. They will come.

P.

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June 4th, XX91, Alabarna
Pell,

If you get a chance before me, punch that smug bastard in the nose.

C.


June 5th, XX91, Rain Base
Dendenmushi message
Chaka,

She is here. She is returning to Alabarna.

Tell His Majesty, she looks so much like her mother.

She has come home. I am following.

We will fix this.

P.