Life was so simple back in the forest. I use to scurry across the ground with my family. I don’t know how they ended up there, but I was born in one of the forests of Castrovel. It was somewhat a lonely few years, but I had my family. One night, something worried them and they went to investigate something. I heard a loud roar and saw the night light up. I was too frightened to see what happened that night. I shivered in our den for the rest of that night. When I left the next morning, I found a blackened field, but my parents were nowhere to be seen.
After that, I was alone and had to fend for myself. I would hunt for food and try to survive day by day. That is until one day, some metal monstrosity landed in the blackened land and some people climbed out of it. They were not like me, they were tall and had no fur. How did they not freeze at night, I couldn’t tell you. While they were away, I went to look at the thing. I didn’t know that it was a ship then, I just knew it as something new.
Their ship was not too big and I lost track of time as I found things I have never seen before and smelled something so sweat my mouth started to water on its own. I was able to open a box and I found a treasure beyond measure. Each thing in this box smelled like nothing I have ever smelled before. I brought one closer to my nose and sniffed. The aroma took me away and I had to have a bite of it. The thing was so delicious I couldn’t stop eating it, the next thing was a slimy thing but it tasted too good. A small red vegetable looked delicious, but when I bit into it my mouth set on fire and I cried. I ate too much and fell asleep.
The movement of the ship woke me up as they lifted off the planet. I was scared and tried to get out of the ship, but when I went to the area I came in from, it was gone. I couldn’t find out how to get out of the ship and tried to find somewhere to hide… I ended up in the room with the food box. I saw a little cave and hid in it. I fell asleep.
Sometime later, I was awoken by one of them screaming at the mess I made. I cowered in the place I was hiding and it wasn’t long till he found me. At first, I was afraid. I didn’t know what he would do to me. But I think he saw that I was still a child and took pity on me.
Eventually I started to help them. Sanji, their cook, took me in as a pet… don’t know how I feel about that now, but it was good. I started to learn from each of them and eventually started to help fix the ship and the more I learned the more that they saw me as a member of the crew and not a pet. Sanji said that I was always monkeying around and ended up calling me Chimp, Chimp Hancock, his last name. I was honored by the name and took to it fully.
Now, years later, we are still roaming through this system. We have been back to Castrovel once or twice, but we never visited where the black mark was. Though, I want to go back there, to see if I can find out what happened to my parents. But to do that, I will have to find my own crew, one that is not always busy with contracts and shipment dates. They have done enough for me already, I can’t ask them for more. That’s why I will now adventure out on my own. I’ll head to the station and hopefully find a good crew that will eventually help me find those I have lost.
All I have from my early years is a locket. There is a description on it in a language that I can’t understand. Hopefully one day, I will.
