After a few moments of thought, Tashigi began to tread deeper into the island, her hopes resting on finding civilization of some kind, or at least some means by which she could contact the Marines. Unbeknownst to the Captain, however, her fate had already been decided on the other side of a nearby bush laden with peppermint candies.
"Ooh, I just got a great idea!" Perona suddenly burst out. "Let me take care of this!" Twila simply leveled an inquisitive look at the new candy girl in response, wordlessly prodding her to continue.
"Okay, here we go..." Perona murmured as she tried to focus, though her excitement still showed through somewhat in her lowered voice. The pinkette put her hands behind her neck and thrust her chest forward, delivering an unhindered display of her wobbly marshmallow mounds. After a moment, Perona's gumdrop nipples began to wiggle and pulse as a pore opened up at the ends of both, and a pink bubble began puff outward from each one. Both bubbles grew and lengthened, eventually gaining tiny arms and cartoonish faces, giving them a very similar look to the ghosts that Perona was previously summoning with her Devil Fruit powers.
"Ooh, neat! My transformation did affect my powers!" Perona squealed in excitement at her altered ghost, already making plans to test them out on the Marine intruder. For the moment, though, she would settle on capturing Tashigi, and she waved the bubble ghosts toward their target as her way to getting her orders across. The new ghosts responded just as quickly as the normal ones did, darting off toward the intruder without hesitation.
Meanwhile, Tashigi was exploring the island, cataloging what she found in hopes that at least some of it may prove useful later.
"Hmmm... I should keep exploring the coast. If anyone is here at all, they- woah!" Tashigi halted her out-loud thought processes when a flash of pink flew past her, circling around before darting back out of sight. The swordswoman glanced around, trying to get whatever it was back where she could see it.
Though it wasn't due to Tashigi's efforts, one of the pink ghosts hovered back into her line of sight, grinning mischievously at her. She didn't trust it, but it was too late to do anything, as the ghost's noodly form was already thinning and lengthening into a rope that suddenly drew in close, wrapping itself around her legs until they were effectively bound.
"What the?" Tashigi gasped, struggling to remain upright with her knees held together with what seemed to be stretched-out bubblegum. Another pink ghost floated into view, and before Tashigi could react, it did the same as its predecessor, except that this one wrapped around her arms, binding them to her torso and rendering them just as ineffective as her legs.
"Argh, what even is this?" Tashigi growled as she tried to pull off the unconventional bindings, but it stretched along with every movement she made. "Who's behind it?" With a shout of surprise and dismay, the young woman finally lost her balance, tipping over on her bound legs full onto her back.
"Horohorohoro, so, what do we have here?" Perona gloated as she strutted into sight. Though it looked like she was about to say something, words failed Tashigi once the absurdly busty marshmallow girl came into sight, and she could only desperately try to keep her vision away from the candy girl's bust and lower torso as her face went bright red.
"Oh, don't be like that." Perona went on. "You'll get used to my looks soon enough. In fact, you may look similar soon enough. Guess it depends on what I want to do with you." The ghost girl's thick pink lips pursed in though as she considered the downed Marine, weighting the options that swirled in her head.
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