#balckbeard x reader

“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.

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