? '------ {. ' 'CROCODILE ' '.} '------ '?

Crocodile had been having a shit day before the literal Yonko of the Sea, Red-Hair-Shanks, intercepted his ship as he made his way to Alabasta after joining a shit-meeting from the Marines, a Warlord meeting that had been semi-mandatory if he wanted to keep his title.

'God, what do you want? ' Crocodile sighed, not having any of the energy to deal with the Red-Hair shit that he kind of befriended years and years ago.

Shanks grinned, 'I haven 't seen you in so long! Let 's party! '

Crocodile denied but Shanks was a persistent asshole and soon enough the Warlord was stuck having a bonfire with the idiot he was kind of friends with. They had met when Shanks was just starting his own crew, taking on the Grand Line and leaving a trail of booze and bounties as they did so.