White Tiger

Florian Triangle, unknown area...

a humming tune could be heard on top of the abandoned ship floating on the foggy sea. 

Enel who had lost his consciousness after the battle, finaly waking up and saw an unfimiliar ceiling of broken bed. he tried to focus his attention as his eyes darted around the seemingly broken cabin of the unknown ship. 

he was surrounded with pungent smell of rotten woods along with other unknown substances inside the gloomy cabin. 

after several seconds, he tried to move and felt that his wounded body had been tended albeit roughly and covered with old rag instead of bandages. 

Slowly he raised his body to sit on the bed, causing the wood creaking loudly, and just as he tried to activate his Kenbunshoku(Color of Observation) Haki, he heard an eerie voice of someone singing coming from outside of the broken cabin. 

'Yo-ho...all, together..

hoist the colors, high...

heave-ho, thieves and beggar...

never, shall we die~~' 

Enel was intrigued by the voice, so he simply stood up despite in difficulty. After the battle with King which he almost couldn't remembered all of it, his body felt like made out of led, he felt so stiff and sore accompanied by countless bruises and wound all over his body. 

'The king and his men...

Stole the queen from her bed...' 

accompanied by the eerie song, Enel took a step towards the cabin's opening which had been a door before it was destroyed, seeing the dense fog outside, Enel was sure he is still within the Florian Triangle. 

'Yo-ho, all, together...

hoist the colors high...' 

after a grueling steps, Enel finaly took a sight outside the cabin, and he focused his attention towards someone's back who sat on the barrel in the middle of the broken deck. 

'Heave ho, Thieves and Beggars...

Never shall we die...' 

Before Enel approach the mysterious man whose back was facing him, he scanned his surrounding which by now he determined as the broken, abandoned, old ship. 

Seeing the ship's model, Enel squinted his eyes as he knew this kind of ship had been ceased from production more than 2 decades ago thanks to his knowledge on ship building.

the ship had only main mast in the middle, torn sails covered it and clearly it doesn't have any function anymore, there were several marks of battle along with skeletons of human strewn around on the deck, remnants from the past, the wooden panel on the ships had been rotten beyond fix. it was some sort of miracle the ship could stay afloat.

After he observed the wreckage mess called ship, Enel gaze was back towards the man who still singing the eerie song in the middle of the deck. 

'Yo-ho, all, together...

Hoist the colors high...'

the mysterious man wore an old style formal suit, there was a cane rested beside his wooden barel, looking at him from behind he was quite tall, and the most distinctive feature of him was his afro hair which bloom in full glory on top of his head. 

Despite Enel approaching him from behind, the man kept singing as if he doesn't realize there was someone behind. 

'Heave ho....

Just when the man continued to sing, Enel followed along from his back. 

"....Thieves and Beggars, Never shall we die. You could put yourself in Impel Down by only singing this song you know." Enel broke the silence as he adressed the unknown man. 

The man didn't mind Enel words, as he replied without turning back, "Ah, you're awake? how do you feel?" 

Enel squinted his eyes in response, "Thanks i guess despite the rough bandages..." 

"Yohohoho, don't mind it. i could only use some torn rags for bandage as there was no fresh bandages laying around here..." 

Finally the man stood up and turned around to face Enel, Seeing the man Enel couldn't help but felt shocked, 

"What are you?" Enel lowered his head to look properly towards the man body and face. 

After he awakened the Lunarian bloodline, Enel body had tremendous transformation, now he stood more than 300cm while the man opposite him stood at 266cm tall. 

The reason of Enel reaction before was because the man stood in front of him was not a man at all! he was all bones! a walking and talking skeleton!

"Yohohoho, greeting sir. My name is Brook i'm the owner of this ghost ship." despite his body was all skeleton, Brook's manner was impacable. he politely bowed in greeting making Enel feeling quite awkward in response. 

"Ah yeah, I'm Enel. well this must be one of the weirdest encounter in all of my life." replied Enel. 

"Yohohohoho. i'm sure it is, anyway nice to meet you, it's been too long since i've met another living being who could talk." Brook laughed. 

"Nice to meet you, By the way Brook, do you have any fresh water here? i'm quite thristy." asked Enel.

Brook chuckled as he gestured toward Enel to follow him. after several distance, they saw some rotten barrels filled with water on the corner of the deck, Brook the skeleton pointed towards the barrels and said, 

"Feel free Enel-san, usualy there is no water in this ship, but 2 days ago there was a rainstorm passing through here. it was weird actualy." 

Seeing the rotten barrels filled with water, Enel could only sigh helplessly, and yet he approached the barrels and took a sip from it directly doesn't minding the smell of rotten wood. 

After satisfying his thirst, Enel turned towards Brook who stood straight behind him and asked, 

"Weird? Whats so weird about it?" 

Brook tilted his head as if in wonder, "as far as i remember, in this region, i'm pretty sure it was never raining let alone storm occured. That's why i feel weird." 

"Is that so?" Enel folded his hand forward seemingly deep in thought. 

If what Brook said was true, then how could a rainstorm appeared when he battled against King? for quite some time Enel still couldn't find the answer while brook stood patiently leaning on his wooden cane. 

shaking his head, Enel decided to put it back in his mind for now and asked his brother Kimimaro later as he knew Kimimaro's knowledge ran deeper than him. 

Seeing Brook waiting on him patiently, Enel felt a surge of curiosity seeing the animated skeleton who could talk in front of him.

"Well, theres no point thinking about it for now. Anyway, i thank you for your help, if not for your help i might not live long enough and meet you here Brook." Enel spoke with simple smile on his face. 

Brook laughed after hearing Enel thanked him, "Yohohohoho! Please, i just did what i could do, seeing your unconscious body drifted towards my ship i couldn't turn blind eyes on you." 

paused slightly, Brook continued in cheerful voice, "....even though i don't have eyes anymore! Yohohohohoho!" 

Seeing Brook clapping his skeletal hands cheerfuly, Enel couldn't help but showing a dumbfounded look on his face.