Right before Chloe's eyes, Buckeye began to change. His body morphed in shape from stocky to gaunt and twisted. The tips of his skin bubbled and purpled. Long swirling curls of dark purple hair shot out the top of his head. His newfound eyes, once blood red were now a jaundiced yellow and his teeth were blackened and his gums swollen and puffy. He now sported a jet black top and miniskirt and when he opened his mouth, it was of a scratchy but mischievous female voice. "I guess I can say, aye aye, to you foolish pirates," she laughed evily and pointed to her sickly eyes. "Because I actually do have eyes. Oh where are my manners..."

She extended her hand out to Chloe. Her skin, infected with purple pustules practically oozed with excitement as Chloe winced and cringed. "My name is Topsy Scurvy!" the female demon exclaimed. "And I am one of the three plague demons of the sea!"

Chloe took a step back in shock. "Motherpuffer! So you're related to Mick the Ick?!"

"Why yes!" Topsy Scurvy said, putting a spindly finger to her chin. "He was my big bro! And I was quite amazed when you finally cured the world of him."

Chloe shook her head. "I hope you're not mad. We were doing the world a favor!"

Topsy Scurvy grinned so hard her gums started bleeding. "Of course not, you sicko. Now I, Topsy Scurvy can be the most feared disease on the sea! So thanky panky very much!"

"Argh!" Captain Abacab grimaced over from his seat. "Is a horrid vixen like you truly the embodiment of scurvy?!"

"Why yes, old man!" the plague demon said with a twisted smirk.

Abacab's eyes widened like he had encountered a serial killer in the flesh. "Yee 'ave taken too many of my mates!" he cried. "Scurvy is indeed the most feared plague of the sea!"

A confident veneer spread over Topsy Scurvy's face. "It was my pleasure," she said, sticking out her blackened tongue. "And what can I say, scurvy is a cruel mistress!"

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Topsy Scurvy rolled both of her eyes in different directions and grinned gleefully. "But that's not why I'm here. I murdered this haggard blind man I was impersonating so I could get my hands on *his* treasure."

"Who?" Navi squeaked.

Topsy stuck out her withered but lengthy hand. "Captain Big Oaf. The dumb muscle men who led you guys. For he...has the only bauble in the world that prevents my master from ruling it! I NEED IT!"

Big Joe's crew all looked at each other. So did Chloe's crew. At last, Chloe defiantly broke the silence. "We're not letting you have it, manic sickly nightmare girl!"

Topsy Scurvy buried her teeth into her mutilated lips. "Ooh I like that name! But of course I'm getting that, you little squirt. What Topsy wants, Topsy gets!"

Chloe looked around the room. "Everyone?! Are we gonna let this diseased freakazoid take over the whole sea?! I know we've had our difference, but I'm sure we all hate scurvy!"

Chloe received many nods, much to her surprise, not only from her side, but also Big Joe's crewmates. Even Antonio, who had once stood hard against her, offered Scurvy a serious scowl. "Enferma. Even if you are beautiful in a perverse way," Antonio said, "You murdered our captain and now you must die!"

Monica sighed. "I love when gallant swords people swear revenge on murderers!"

Vinnie rolled his eyes. "Toots, I always do dat. And this sick freak beauty is going down!"

"Oh really?" Topsy said, raising her bony forehead. "Because I could easily just snap and..."

The plague demon snapped her clawlike fingers and Chloe didn't feel so good. Her jaw ached and her arms and legs began to wobble. It wasn't long before she toppled over. There were a bunch of following mumbles and grumbles and Chloe watched in horror as many of her other friends and rivals fell over too.

"What's going on," she muttered. "And why do I feel like I need to eat an orange really bad."

"I'm insulted!" Topsy Scurvy scowled. "It's in my name and you still don't what you have! Well, sweetums, you have scurvy!"

"I should be honored!" Chloe growled. "All true men of the sea get scurvy! And now even I, the demon pirate queen has it. But uh, this kinda...sucks."

Topsy Scurvy's beady eyes widened and her mouth full of blackened teeth followed. "It's my displeasure. Looks like none of you have been getting enough Vitamin C with how easily you all went down. This was truly like taking candy from a baby. Or should I say, citrus!"

Topsy Scurvy carefully stepped over the moaning bodies of Chloe and her friends. "Now...at long last, the mother of the pearl will be mine!"

She winked. "I'll let you all decay in peace!"