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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.

That is until one day, one stopped in the middle of our territory. My family watched as a horde of wild beasts attacked the train and were quickly dealt with. My family decided to leave the next day. While they were packing and getting things ready to go, I snuck away and was able to get into the head of the train.

It looked like one of those wild beasts got through and tore the inside of the head apart. There was one small, fat monkey in there. It looked like he was a Medicine Man, trying to heal this beast. I noticed him fumbling for some stick on the ground. He couldn't see where it was so I picked it up and handed it to him. He said something in his language that i didn't understand. Then he looked at me and i guess i scared him. He jumped and hit his head on the skull of the train. I moved back, tripping over a rock on the ground.

After a few minutes, he put the stick into the rock and sit down. He pulled out something from his pocket and took a bite and held out a piece for me. I looked at it and sniffed it. It smelled like old dead meat. Well, he was eating it, so i decided to give it a try. It wasn't bad. He soon went back to healing the train. I watched and it wasn't long until he had it fixed.

Then i saw this beast regain consciousness and start to slowly move. Before i knew it, he was pointing to things and trying to teach me his language. I didn't noticed that we were leaving my home until we were already out of the forest and on a great plane.

After that, he took me back to his home. He lived in a forest with trees that didn't have leaves. There were some normal trees, but they were not many. I soon learned that these trees were called buildings and it wasn't a forest, but a town. The stick he was using on the Trains skull was a wrench and the rock was a toolbox.

Sanji Hancock taught me many things and i helped him out in his workshop since i came to the city. When we first met, he thought i was a monkey so he named me Chimp and it stuck.

Now, years later. We are still working in his workshop and business is good. I have learned many things from him and have started to tinker to make my own devices. That is until the earthquakes started. They tore through the workshop, knocking stuff off the wall, causing damages to the new home i have found.

When Sanji heard about the government sending out a party to investigate, he wanted to go. But Sanji is old, really old for a gnome and shouldn't be out exploring caves. I went in his stead.