[Action / Accidental Video] In which baby phoenixes flail a lot

[fierybluebird]

[Early Monday morning Marco is finally returned from his kidnapping. A lot tinier.]

[He wakes up by kicking his book open and there's a teeny tiny baby bluebird phoenix cocking an eye at the pages. Hello Luceti. Finally he decides it's just a blank journal so he hops back and goes to take in his surroundings, and checks the area around the fountain very carefully. Wet. Do not want. Well, he's bored now. Time to fly home.]

[That would work a lot better without this creepy added weight. What the hell! NO! HE CAN'T FLY?! So after several jumps, the hand-sized phoenix jumps about and tries to get air. Which much to his dismay, does nothing. With the added new weight of the fake Luceti wings, he can't fly! Eventually he just gives up and starts flailing.]

Pops! Pops! Pops! [There are a few more baby birdie chirps of this.] Uwah brothers! ANYONE! Where are you guys?!

[Walks around and looks distraught.] I must'a hurt my wings. But that makes no sense... because I'm a phoenix. [Sits back down and sulks for now. Oh, look a stranger! He starts to rush to hide behind the fountain, but well, he's not getting anywhere on his own... so he'll have to try something!]

Excuse me! Have you seen anyone really really tall around? Wait. No. What island is this? I don't remember docking? AH! Have you see Edward Newgate; my Pops around? It's really important, yoi! [At which point... he remembers he's a bird. And realizes nothing he said probably came out in human (it all did because lulz Luceti) so just have a deapan baby birdie stare.]

[ooc: replies will come from chibifirebird

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[Voice]

[toujoursfluer]

[She almost disregards the video feed, catching it late, until she sees the tiny phoenix hop away from the fountain edge and cheep for his Pops. Of course.

He seems young, too. How strange. She tries not to think about it, too much, and watches him with a faint sort of irritation that is partly aimed, even unfairly, at him, but mostly at the Malnosso who, it seems, can do nothing but stir up trouble]

He isn't here. Or, rather, you're elsewhere.

[Voice]

[chibifirebird]

[He looks around for the source of the voice and then just decides something he can't see must be talking. From the ground. Or the fountain. Or... whatever.]

Where?

[Since the voice is probably a bird, he stays one too, and looks up to find them.]

[Voice]

[toujoursfluer]

Luceti. It's not an island we can sail to, if it is an island at all. You were here before, though, in another form, so other people will know you.

[She gathers that you seem to be confused about where her voice is coming from but she's disinclined to point it out]

[video]

[hiken_ace]

[... okay uh. That's not normal. Not even for Marco. So quick as he can, Ace grabs his journal to respond, but then wonders what the hell he should say. Ace was kind of a brat to him, after all.

Maybe Marco will be different?] O-Oi, Marco? Hey, can you tell me where you are?

[And then it hits him that he came home in less than a month. A week, at that! HELL YES.]

[video]

[chibifirebird]

[CONFUSED BIRDIE.]

No... where are you? Ah. But I cannot fly to you just yet, so you will have to come here. Wherever that is.

[He doesn't recognize this face.... Are they even trustworthy yet? But if they are an ally, it might offend them. And the did know his name. But it is probably just an islander.]

What's the password!

[video]

[hiken_ace]

[...p-password jhvghvj. Was Marco always this cute? Back to the topic at hand.]

What do you see around you? I'll come pick you up. [And now that password...]

Um... Pops is the greatest dad ever?

[weakahoshi]

M- Marco-sama?

[Well, she's really tall...]

This is Luceti, Marco-sama. Are you okay?

[chibifirebird]

[He has yet to notice the giant mermaid, though you'd think with the pink hair and such he would.]

Luceti...

I see....

[Turns around and looks at the ground trying to understand what Luceti is.]

Ah! I cannot fly! Miss who knows my name, do you know where my Papa is?

[cryinghoshi]

Um, i- if you mean Whitebeard-sama, he's...

[And Shirahoshi starts crying softly, because even though she didn't know him, she knows he was important to Marco, and it's too sad to have to tell him that his Pops is dead.]

He's with M- Mother-sama, watching over us, so you don't have to worry, ok?

[Action]

[bubblywishes]

[Today, Norma's just taking a walk back from the library, as is her usual routine. She's been far quieter ever since Marco left, though she's been purposefully finding things to do to keep her mind off things. As she walks along, humming to herself a soft, slow tune, she notes the movement from the corner of her eye and pauses. For a minute, she doesn't think much of it - just a bird washing itself in the fountain - but when it starts talking and flailing and--phoenix...oh god. She whirls around and immediately begins to panic, approaching and going through a list of mental preparations and stuff. What to do, what to do?!]

Uh...h-hey there, Tu--uh, little guy... You lost?

[Action]

[chibifirebird]

Yes! Where are we? [Giant woobly phoenix eyes looking up at you Norma.]

[Action]

[bubblywishes]

[Oh my god, he's so cute and tiny and fluffy and vkvls;ajdkc--BACK ON TRACK. Norma crouches down a little and offers a gentle, friendly smile.]

This place is called Luceti, and I'm called Norma. Can you tell me your name?

[lostinmyway]

[Grune has been ambling about aimlessly, doing nothing in particular, when she notices a fair bit of flailing around the fountain. When she comes to investigate, it takes for a moment, but then she notices the adorable baby birdie. Awwww.]

Hello. What's your name?

[chibifirebird]

Marco! [Chirp!]

How about you Miss?

[lostinmyway]

My name is Grune. It's very nice to meet you, Marco!

[...Most people would be seriously doubting the possibility of two blue phoenixes named Marco showing up in Luceti. Most people aren't Grune.]

[Voice]

[daisy023]

[Marco. She immediately identifies him. It's clear they had taken him. Now, he needs help.

... Even, if she may not know how to explain many of the truths of Luceti, and the little she heard of his world, to him.]

... You'll have to be more specific than that.

[Voice]

[chibifirebird]

More specific than Papa?

He's the size of a houseboat and he has a big white moon mustache and a huuuuuge hal-bard bi-sen-to thing! And and he's got long blonde hair and a big black hat with a skull and crossbones and he has a tattoo on his back like our flag, and he has a big white jacket!

[Voice]

[daisy023]

[Whitebeard.]

I'm... I'm really sorry... I haven't seen him. We can get you someplace good on the meantime.

[Action]

[concasse]

[... There's a disgustingly cute bird talking to him. Right. Well, Sanji can roll with this, even if his expression is deadpan and far from inviting.]

Sorry, never heard of someone like that. [Not in Luceti] ... And you are? [He has a hunch, but verbal confirmation would be nice, too.]

[Action]

[chibifirebird]

[Yes Sanji, you can be the (swirly) aloof deadpan blond that Marco can no longer be.]

Oh! I'm sorry, I forgot.

I'm Marco, yoi. Are you from around here?

[Action]

[concasse]

[... Sanji is not comfortable with how cute you are, Marco. Stop that.]

You could say that.

... And just call me Sanji. [Well, now that his suspicions are confirmed, the chef can't very well leave him alone - not until he's sure Ace can pick the guy up] I don't think I can help you find your Pops, but there's a place we can wait.

[action]

[sailedfirst]

[Later, when Ace and Marco arrives home, they'll find Sabo making some epic sandwiches. He's quite enjoying himself, even singing Bink's no Sake cheerfully while at it.

So when the door opens, he merely waves his messy butter knife, not bothering to look up.] Yo. Check this out, Ace! Did you know you can put peanut butter and jelly together and they'll taste awesome? I only just found out!

[action]

[fierybluebird]

Yes! that is the best kind that Papa makes--

Whooooa.

He does not stack them that high though, eh!

[What is this skyscraper sandwich?! THIS IS MADNESS. This is Peanut butter jelly time!!!]

[Also hi Sabo. Your oldest/biggest brother is now the baby. Oops.]

[action] 1/3

[sailedfirst]

[Oh, strange new babby voice. Sabo's just going to look around, wondering if Ace brought a new friend home, but still ready to greet with a grin.]

Well, you know, big stacks for big appetites! I made a lot so--

[action] 2/3

[sailedfirst]

[Hear that? That's the sound of his thought process' breaks screeching to a complete halt.]