Chapter 2: the thief, the clown and the Sharpshooter.
Answering the reviews :
Kyo-The-Sheep : Alors d'un Merci pour ton soutient, de deux je suis d'accord avec toi à propos des fics françaises, de trois sans doute mais bon j'ai écris ce chapitre en deux jours et bien que je me sois relut j'ai du en oublier plus d'une, et enfin son baton car c'est bien un baton est en acier et ressemble à ceux qu'il utilisait enfant avec Ace et Sabo.
Previously in How a locked box changes everything:
Luffy found his first crewmate after freeing from a navy base, he also let his friend Kobby behind so that the boy could join the marines. Luffy and Zoro are sailing in East blue looking for the way to Grand Line and more crewmates.
"speaking"
'thinking'
Technique
Flashback
Fight
Now:
East Blue Zoro's boat.
It's been two days since they left Shell town behind and sadly no island was in sight, their food supply was also quite low.
"Are you kidding me, you are a pirate and you don't know a thing about navigation?" asked Zoro to his captain.
"Don't worry we will land somewhere, someday." replied Luffy to his crewmate.
"Yeah! Maybe but we really should find a good navigator or we are never going to reach Grand Line." stated Zoro.
"I am hungry…." stated the both of them as they let themselves fall on their backs.
They watched helplessly as a bird flew over them far out of their reach as if to taunt them.
In an Alternate Universe Luffy would have tried to catch the bird that flew over them leading them to a new town and a new adventures but fate works in mysterious ways.
"Let's follow that bird. It can't fly forever so we will catch it once he lands" said Luffy
"Good Idea!"
The two started to row, they followed the bird hoping to catch it but fate had another plan.
"Help us!"
Luffy and Zoro still rowing looked at each other, then at the men barely holding their heads above the water.
"We don't have time to stop!" yelled Zoro at the shipwrecked sailors.
Luckily for the three sailors they were able to grab on the boat and pulled themselves inside it as it passed.
"You wanted to kill us!" roared one of the sailors.
"Doesn't matter guys we can go back now." said another.
"Stop rowing and let us take your boat or if you want we can show you why it would be wise to fear the prates under captain Buggy's order." said the now revealed pirate C.
"What did you say?" asked Zoro looking ready to kill.
A short beat down later.
"We didn't know you were Roronoa Zoro and a friend, if we had we wouldn't have tried to take the boat." said pirate A.
"Tchh because of you we lost the bird, you better row until we reach the coast maybe we will find it there." grumbled Luffy.
The three pirates started to slowly row towards the coast.
"By the way why were three pirates doing in the sea, shouldn't you have a boat?" asked a curious Zoro.
"Great question thank you for asking." said pirate B.
"It is because of that bitch, who stole our boat from us, no matter how cute she was she must have been a witch." added pirate C.
"Yeah she feigned being weak so that gentlemen like us would help her, we were just returning from having successfully attacked a merchant ship, and then she went on our ship stole it and all the gold we took and then she made a storm appear from nowhere and sank the boat we were in…" shamefully concluded pirate B.
'Hmm must have been a good navigator if she could predict the storm' thought both Luffy and Zoro as a new idea grew inside the captain's mind.
"And who is this Buggy you spoke about?" wondered Luffy.
"What you don't know Captain Buggy, the pirate who ate the devil fruit!" exclaimed pirate C in shock.
'A devil fruit huh I wonder which one he ate?' wondered Luffy lost in his own mind as he thought back to when he first heard about those fruits.
FlashBack
Dawn island deep in the forest nine years earlier.
A young Luffy could be seen running in a forest from time to time he looked over his shoulder looking quite frightened.
'Damm Gramps why can't he understand I don't want to become a navy guy but the pirate king, and damm Ace to how could he left me behind to face Gramps.' thought the eight years old boy.
"LUUUUUUUUUUUUUFFFFFFFFFFFFFFYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" a faint yell could be hard coming from behind the boy causing him to run even faster in fear.
Suddenly the boy was tripped by a root and rolled on the ground until he hit another tree.
The boy shook his head to gather himself and looked around him for sign of his frightening Gramps. He didn't find his grandfather but instead he found himself looking at a weird Fruit shaped like a pear with swirly looking decorations and the color was off too being bright blue.
'Is that a fruit… Weird doesn't look to be to tasty' thought the boy as he took the fruit to get a better look.
"Luffy don't eat that!" roared the voice of his gramps startling him.
"Gramps I almost dropped it! And what is that thing, why shouldn't I eat it?" asked Luffy to the newcomer.
"That my dear Grandson is a Devil Fruit, if someone eats one he get a power and lose the ability to swim." explained the old man to his grandson.
"But isn't that good?" asked the young boy.
"It depends, the thing is you don't know the power you will get when you eat it, it could be something awesome or something lame." explained the old man "Come let's find Ace that way I will explain more about those fruits to the both of you! You should keep it, after all you were the one to find it, and you don't know when that thing will be useful. Promise me just that you won't eat it until you join the Navy."
The both of them then went deeper into the forest to find Ace.
Flashback end.
When Luffy was done remembering they were arriving inside a town's port.
"Here we are mister Zoro, mister Luffy." said pirate A as they landed on the docks.
"Where are the villagers? Is this a ghost town?" wondered Zoro.
"Well you see… the thing is that the Buggy's band of pirates is currently attacking the town." explained pirate C.
"I see how about you lead us to this Buggy guy, He sounds funny." said Luffy.
The three pirates that brought them here looked at the teen with wide eyes, before whispering among themselves that the girl must be far away and that they at least came back. They lead the crew of two pirates to the tavern of the town where the Buggy's pirates were partying after having caught the thief that tried to steal from them.
The five pirates entered the tavern looking for Buggy for different reasons, the infamous pirate captain was sitting on a throne like chair watching his crew partying, in a cage on the side you could see an orange haired girl.
"Hmm you three, Were you successful in your attack? Who are those two? Where is my money?" asked the captain looking at his three underlings.
"Well you see…" stuttered pirate B before his eyes caught the thief that stole their ship from them in a cage not far from his captain "There she is the thief that stole your money!"
"What is that true girl not only did your steal the map to Grand Line but also my money! That is Unforgivable guys prepare the Buggy Balls!" roared the furious Buggy as he realized the thief stole twice from him.
The Buggy crew prepared a cannon which was pointed at and a special buggy ball was put into it.
Just as the pirates were going to lit the fuse Zoro hit them all with his sheathed swords.
"Guys like you shouldn't hit a defenseless person." said the swordsman as he threw the pirates away from the fuse.
"He Zoro Let some for me next time." complained Luffy to his crewmate.
"Roronoa Zoro are you here for my bounty?" asked the captain who had a bonty of 15 000 000 berries on his head.
"Don't care, but we have business with the girl so if you don't let her go I will have to cut you." threatened the former bounty hunter.
While Zoro was talking with Buggy, Luffy went to the canon and flipped it over so that the canon faced the Buggy crew.
"Hey Boggy, turn your big nose over there." yelled Luffy as he lit the fuse of the canon.
"What about my nose you dumb assed ape." yelled the furious Buggy before paling as he saw his special buggy ball about to be fired in his direction
"WWHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT!?"
"Grab the cage and let's go Zoro!" said Luffy as he and his crewmate left using the smoke as cover.
In a house in town
Luffy and Zoro having escaped from the buggy pirates with the cage, went inside an empty house where Luffy broke the cage with pure strength and untied the thief that was inside.
"Thank you, I thought I could steal from buggy as he looks like a buffoon but I learned he is anything but. My name is Nami, I heard you have business with me, what kind?" asked the now named Nami.
"We saw how you dealt with the three idiots, are you a good navigator?" asked Luffy.
"If I am good, I am the best navigator on this sea, I am also quite a good thief, why do you need a navigator if you don't mind me asking?" bragged the orange haired girl.
"We want to go on Grand Line to findt he One Piece but neither me nor my crewmate here are any good at navigation, so I want to ask you to join our crew." replied the captain.
"One Piece, Grand Line, does that means you are pirate?" asked Nami starting to get angry at the thought of owning her life to pirates whom she despised on principle. 'Dammit just as I hoped tp be free of them they grow them on trees or what'
"Yeah even if it is not official yet." replied Luffy.
"I hate pirates but since you saved my life I am willing to work alongside you for a time, but beware I am not cheap."
"Hey I am not paying you, trust me you will like working with us Shishishi" laughed the happy captain.
"I don't trust pirates, but any way if you want to go on Grand Line you will need to map that Buggy got back from me. If you are able to get it back and help me get Buggy's treasure then I will be willing to work with you for free." 'He seems strong but a bit naïve, I will use him for a time then go my way'
Luffy and Nami shook hands to mark their alliance, before the three of them left the home they were in, ony to see a funny and weird show.
Indeed a dog was fighting a huge lion ridden by a white haired man, the dog seemed to protect the building behind him.
"Hey, what are you doing let the dog go." yelled Luffy to the white haired lion ridding man.
"Ah it's you, good I will be able t bring your head to captain Buggy. But before that Richie wants to eat what is inside that shop and what Richie wants, Richie gets." stated the pirate as he let his pet lion strike the poor dog to get him out of the way.
"This one is for me." said Luffy as he got between the lion andd the dog, he thus blocked the paw strike.
"What the... how dare you?" asked the pirate.
"Why are you wearing such a weird cap?" couldn't help but ask a confused Luffy.
"You That's my natural hair you dumbass... I Mohji will make you pay in the name of captain Buggy! Go Richie." yelled Mohji.
ROAR!
Mohji and Richie went to strike Luffy, the teen blocked the paw with his arm, he then grabbed the lion by his fur and started to lift the lion over his head.
"What the...? How can he ift that lion with pure strenght?!" yelled Nami in disbelief as she watched the fight with Zoro.
"That's the captain for you, he is insanely strong."stated Zoro.
"Take that..." said Luffy as he slammed Richie into the ground headfirst, a perfect german suplex, Mohji was sent flying from his lion into the wall.
Nami couldn't believe her eyes here was a guy that could lift and throw a lion as if the animal weighted nothing.
"You...Richie!" yelled Mohji as he looked at his lion who was still stuck head first into the round.
"Now you." said Luffy as he cracked his knuckles walkin slowly towards the poor Mohji.
"Eh let's not do something hasty right, I can see that you are strong, i am the first mate of the Buggy pirates I could speak for you to my captain. But please don't hit me!" begged Mohji falling on his knees before the straw hat wearing captain.
"As if!" yelled Luffy as he struck Mohji with a devastating blow in the face. The strenght of the blow send Mohji into blissfull unconsciousness as the back if his head slammed hard into the ground.
"One down, that's good." said Nami still a little shock at the ease Luffy had in this fight.
"Waf! Waf!" barked the cute little dog in thanks.
"What happened here!?" yelled a shocked voice.
The three pirates turned to see a older man dressed in a funny armor and armed with a spear. They explained what happened to the man as he fed the little dog. In turn the man told them he was the mayor and what happened to his town between the pirates attack and the death of Chouchou's master due to illness.
As soon as the pirates finished with their tale, just then an explosion destroyed the houses on the right side of the street causing the mayor exploded in rage.
"That's the last straw, Buggy I Boodle will take your head!" roared the mayor as he readied his spears and ran to Buggy's hideout, with the three teens following him.
Buggy's hideout
Boodle, the mayor, was the first to arrive before the taver the pirates used as their hideout.
"Buggy I know you are in there come down there and fight!" yelled Boodle trying to provoke the pirate.
Buggy and his crew appeared on the roof to see who was causing such a ruckus, seeing it was just an old man.
"Who the hell are you?" asked the clown.
"I am the mayor of this town. "said the old man.
"Bwahahahah, you think you have a chance against our captain!" yelled the crew.
"Captain." softly said a dark green haired man.
"What do you want Cabaji?"
"Please allow me to destroy that man in your name." asked Cabaji as he reached inside his mouth to pull out his sword. He then got on his unicycle to warm up a little.
Seeing this the crew cheered as they liked to see Cabaji fight as he was an awesome acrobate and his fight were very entertaining to them.
"What are you doing Cabaji? I am the captain and I say go back, let me handle him." stated Buggy killing the cheerfull mood of his crew. "Tell me old man what is your reason to come and defy me?"
"Don't screw with me! This town is my treasure and you are destroying it."
"A treasure? Idiot a treasure should be made of gold and precious stones, so that it's owner can flount his wealth." stated the pirate captain looking down on Boodle. "How could this town be a treasure you are pissing me off old man!"
"Don't screw with me you could never hope to understand how much this town means to me! I am here to teach you a lesson so come down and fight me!" roared the mayor.
"Come down, don't think so you hould stop bitching!" said Buggy as he launched his hand at Boodle, his hand was able to come off his bodu due to the Devil Fruit he once ate the Bara Bara no mi.
The clown was slowly choking the mayor and despite the poor man efforts the pirate wouldn't let him go, just as all hope appeared to be lost Luffy showed up and made Buggy let go by crushing his hand, showing that Buggy was still feeling anything that might happen to his body parts even when they were separated.
"Straw hat?!"
"Thank you youngster, you saved my life but I will ask you to leave this is my fight so please let me handle this." said the mayor catching his breath after being choked by Buggy.
Vlam! Suddenly the mayor was lauched headfirst into a wall by Luffy effectively knocking him out of the fight.
"Why did you do that?! Filthy pirate I knew I shouldn't have trusted you." yelled Nami thinking she may have made a mistake allying herself with such violent guys.
"He would have wanted to fight and he would have got in our way." stated the teen with Zoro agreeing with him.
"That's right if he had remained awake he would have died because they don't seem like the type to not hurt innocent bystander in a fight." explained the first mate to the thief.
"Maybe, but did he have to throw him that hard?"
"Hey Boggy our whatever your name is! What is that big red thing in the middle of your face? Is that your nose or an accessory?" asked Luffy shocking every one around him, even Buggy froze in shock.
"Fire! Fire every Buggy ball we have and destroy them all!"roared the clown in a furious rage.
His crew hurried themselves and fired the special Buggy ball.
"Why did you have to piss him off. Now hurry and flee if you don't want to die!" yelled Nami fleeing the street they were in and once more thinking sh may have madea mistake with this alliance.
"pff as if those thing could hurt me." stated luffy as he calmly rose his left hand and promptly caught the special cannonball with one hand.
"Tell me my dear Cabaji, am I dreaming or has this boy caught one of my special Buggy ball with one hand?" asked a bewildered Buggy to his quartermaster.
"Itaï why did you pinch me Cabaji?"
"I didn't know what else to do captain I am still shocked myself." stated the acrobate.
"You could have warned us don't you think captain?" asked Zoro as Luffy was calmly juggling with the cannonball.
"Where did he come from?!" yelled Buggy and Nami shocked.
"Hey he isn't going to..." started the Buggy pirates as Luffy got into a throwing position.
"I think that thing belongs to you here take it back Genkotsu Meteor!" yelled Luffy as threw the cannonball back at Buggy with twice the speed and strenght of the original cannon.
"Whaa...!" yelled Buggy as he watched his own Buggy ball fly back at him far faster than what he expected.
KaBoum! The tavern exploded when the buggy ball hit the roof, showing the strength of the explosives used by Buggy to make it.
"There now there is far much less pirates to worry about." stated a smirking Luffy while his two friend looked owlishly at him.
"How did you do that? What are you some kind of freak!" shrieked Nami once she recovered from the shock.
"I am no freak, I just had a trainig from hell." stated the staw hat wearing teen.
The smoke finally dispersed causing the three pirates to turn their attetion back to Buggy and his crew.
The clown and his quartermaster survived the explosion by using crewmembers as shield.
Only instinct allowed buggy to use his crewmembers as shield and survive the explosion, however the man starred at Luffy as if he saw a ghost.
Flashback
25 years earlier somewhere on Grand Line
A young Buggy could be seen arguing with a young Shanks about something not important, other pirates were seen doing whatever pirates do when there is nothing to do.
"A navy ship is coming at us from the back!" shouted the look-out.
"Who is the leader can you tell from there?" asked the captain fearing that he knew who was following them relentlessly.
"RRRRRROOOOOOGGGGEEEEERRRRRRRRR!" roared a voice coming from the navy ship.
"GGGGAAAAAARRRRRPPPP you can't catch me!" taunted the pirate captain to the one who swore he would catch him.
"I don't have to catch you. You just have to stay in range, I will sink you! Get me cannonballs and keep them coming." said Garp as he turned to his men.
"And how will you shoot at us? We are out of range?" asked the pirate.
"Like that Genkotsu Meteor!"roared the navy officer as he threw cannonballs after cannonballs at the pirates, forever scarring the young Buggy.
FlashBack end.
'He can't be related to that man can he?' thought the clown as he looked at the yung man in fear and dread.
"Don't worry captain Buggy, i'll take care of them." stated Cabaji snapping his captain out of his shock.
The quartermaster drew his sword and used his unicylce to charge Luffy, Zoro went between them and stopped Cabaji with one of his sword.
"If it's going to be a swordfight I will be your opponent." stated the swordsman.
"Roronoa Zoro an honor."
Zoro vs Cabaji
The two swordsmen engaged in a furious swordfight, where it clearly appeared after the first few strikes that Zoro was clearly the better swordsman.
Seeing that his crewmate was going to be defeated unless he did something Buggy took a free shot at the green haired swordsman by firing his hand holding a knife into the swordsman sides, injring him quite severely.
"How cowardly, he struck him in the back!" yelled the orange haired girl in shock.
"Tch don't think you will be able to do that again I am watching you." stated Luffy deciding to keep the cheating clown in sight.
"Thank you captain! Now how will you be able to keep fighting whan you are injured like that?" asked Cabaji to his opponent thinking he had the fight already won.
Steel met steel with a clang as Zoro blocked each and every one of Cabaji's strike. The acrobat was surprised that even with such a wound he still wasn't able to gain advantage in the fight against the other swordsman.
Seeing that fighting without cheating wouldn't bring him victory, Cabaji decided to cheat.
"Kyokugi! Kaji Oyaji!" said the acrobat, as he blew fire at Zoro to distract him, his strategy succeeded and he was able to kick his opponent right in his wound.
"AAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!" yelled the swordsman in pain.
"I didn't strike you that hard what's happening to you?" mocked Cabaji.
"That scum he struck him in his wound that's not fair." fued the orange haired thief.
"Kyokugi! Yukemuri Satsujin Jiken!" yelled the acrobat as he spun his sword creating a cloud of smoke blinding his opponent, he tried to strike Zoro, but the man was able to block with two of his swords.
"What..." stated the green haired swordsman as he saw Cabaji going once again for his wound, however he wasn't able to block the kick and was once again send to the ground in tremendous pain.
"That bastard he did it again." fumed Nami as she watched helplessly the fight between the two swordsmen.
"What happened? A big guy like you rolling on the ground, that's not something you should do. I hope you know that you and your freakish friend did a lot of damages to us, You maybe a dangerous bounty hunter but you shouldn't have attacked the Buggy pirates" stated the acrobat standing tall on the unicycle.
"Why aren't you helping him he could die?" said Nami as Luffy stayed silent watching the fight.
"Prepare to die Roronoa Zoro!" yelled Cabaji as he went for the kill, however Zoro got on his feet and struck Cabaji with the pommel of his left sword, sending the acrobate on the ground.
"You are starting to bore me, is it that funy to you to strike me in my wound?" asked Zoro before worsening his wound by slicing his side wide open shocking everyone.
"Wha...Are you crazy!?"
"My goal is to become the greatest swordsman in the world, I now have a greater disadvantage! I will prove to you the difference between our level!" yelled the crazy green haired swordsman.
"I clearly underestimated you..."
"Know that in the future I won't lose any fight against the swordsmen that will end up facing me." stated Zoro.
"I see you have an iron will, but sadly the wound you have will end up causing your end in this fight." said Cabaji keeping up with this banter between foes.
"You are wrong if I loose know then I will have to worry about the future." stated Zoro.
"Son of a bitch" grumbled the acrobate.
"Listen Luffy, there is a house behind the piece of junk that holds all their treasure. So I will go help myself with it I leave you with the task of getting the Grand Line map, which Buggy must hold hiimself. If you manage to get it then I will be interested in working with you some more." stated the thief as she left to get more treasures for herself.
"This is my special technique Roronoa! Kyokugi! Kamikaze Hyakkoma Gekijo!" said Cabaji as he launched hundreds of tops at Zoro forcing the man to block them.
"Kyokugi! Yama Noboro!" said Cabaji as he rode his unicycle up a wall that was still standing. "Kyokugi! Noryo Uchiage Hanabi!"
Cabaji lept from the wall once he reached it's apex, he was know up in the air ready to strik Zoro from above.
"Cabaji! Kill him while I hold him in place, Bara Bara Ho!" yelled Buggy as he fired his hand at Zoro.
"Cowards..." said the target as he watched the hand fly towards him.
Luckily for the green haired swordsman Luffy leapt between them and stomped quite hard on the flying hand to keep Buggy from interfering in the fight.
"I told you I would watch you you stupid clown." said Luffy as he grund his foot in Buggy's hand.
"Thank you captain but I don't need your help in this fight." stated Cabaji as he started to come down due to the natural force of Gravity. "Ichirin Zashi!"
Zoro leapt to the left dodging implament, before standing up.
"That's enough I am tired..."stated the swordsman.
"That's good, the little man is tired, that's normal if you look at all the blood you lost in this fight. It's a great thing you did fighting that well until now." replied Cabaji before he was sent to the ground as Zoro kicked the unicycle he was riding.
"You don't understand I have enough of your silly acobatics" said Zoro using a dark voice.
"Then allow me to kill you with this technique..." started Cabaji only to be interrupted by Zoro's technique.
"Oni Giri!" stated the swordsman as his opponent fell bleeding on the ground.
"How could the crew of Buggy the clown be defeated by lowly thieves." moaned Cabaji from the ground.
"We are no thieves, we are pirates. Luffy I will take a nap now." stated Zoro as he fell on the ground to sleep.
"Don't worry... I will take care of him." stated the captain as he readied himself to fight.
Zoro vs Cabaji winner: Zoro!
"You...Pirates." said the clown in surprise.
"Yes of course! you should hand that Grand Line map over to us." stated Luffy.
"So that's what you wanted...Grand Line isn't a sea for rookie pirates like you, you won't survive there, what's pushing you to go there?" asked a curious Buggy.
"I want to become the pirate king!"
"WHAT Pirate King! What the fuck! I am the one that will find all the treasures in the world so if you becoem pirate king what does that make me...God? Stop dreaming will you!" roared a pissed of clown.
"Stop talking and start fighting!" complained the straw hat wearing teen.
"That straw hat of yours remind me of that guy I once knew in my youth, that red haired punk." grumbled Buggy shocking Luffy.
"Red hair... You know Shanks?!" yelled Luffy in shock that his friend could know some one like Buggy even tif that was a long time ago.
"Hmm? He seems to interest you, why do you want to know if I knew him?" asked the clown.
"Do you know where he is if you even know him."
"Maybe I do know where he is, maybe I don't. In anyway you will have to beat the answer out of me." stated Buggy as he drew out eignt knives from his belt.
Luffy vs Buggy
"I see you want me to use force, fine." said Luffy as he got ready to fight.
"Take that Bara Bara Senbei!" said Buggy as he launched his spinning lower body at Luffy who calmly jumped over the spinning legs.
"We will see if you handle yourself well in the air..." yelled the clown as he threw his eight knives at the airborne teen.
The straw hat wearing teen used his mastery of the staff to block all the knives that Buggy threw at him using his steel staff.
"Ho you handle yourself well." stated Buggy as he watched Luffy block all of his knives.
Luffy ran at the clown as he swung his staff at Buggy's head. If the staff were bladed the move would have decapited the poor Buggy.
"Bara Bara Kinkyu Dasshutsu!" yelled Buggy as he separated his head from his body to dodge Luffy's attack. The teen not managing to stop due to his momentum and because of his missed attack ran past Buggy and into a wall.
"Don't underestimate me kid." stated Buggy.
"Not fair, I would have hit you if you had left your head in it's place." grumbled Luffy looking at his opponent.
Nami who stood nearby was speachless ad she watched the two of them fight: while one had strange powers the other while not having any special powers held his own in this fight. She noted the teen uses of a staff and wondered if she should ask him to teach her to fight better with her own.
"What a fight I don't believe my eyes." softly said the orange haired thief.
"Bara Bara Ho!" said Buggy as he launched his forearm at Luffy who was forced to cath the member least he be pierced by the knives the hand held.
"Kirihanashi!" the hand lanched itself frm the forearm surprising luffy who was barely able to dodge, he was unharmed however his precious straw hat was a little bit damaged.
"You bastard! you dare to touch my hat!" roared Luffy furious that the clown harmed his precious treasure. "That hat is my precious treasure no one but me is allowed to touch it!"
"Ho that hat is that important to you?" wondered the clown as slowly and unseen by Luffy his hand started to rise in the air. The hand threw a knife at Luffy forcing the teen to dodge, then the hand launched itself at the straw hat. "Then protect it!"
Having seen Buggy used underhanded technique before, Luffy expected something like that to happen during his fight, so he was able to keep his precious hat safe from harm. However the teen was still furious that Buggy would resort to such underhanded tactics in the fight.
"How dare you threaten to harm my hat! It is the symbol of my promise to Shanks!" roared the teen.
"So it belonged to Shanks... No wonder that hat seemed familiar since he and I used to sail on the same ship." stated Buggy smuggly "We were nakama once in a time, we were cabin boys together."
"Shanks is a great man, you don't play at the same level!" stated Luffy running at Buggy looking like he once again aimed to strike at the clown's head.
"Bara Bara Kinkyu Dasshutsu!" said Buggy once more separating his head from his body to dodge the strike aimed at his head.
However that aim was a distraction as Luffy didn't punch Buggy's head but kicked him in the stomach. "Who do you think you are!?"
Buggy coughed up blood due to the strenght of the kick he received in the stomach, it took him several minutes to get his breath back.
"Don't ever say that Shanks and you were ever Nakama." said Luffy as he caught Buggy's head and started to stretch it like it mas made of rubber.
"But we were nakama once upon a time... I am telling the truth. It is not my fault you won't understand! Bara Bara..." started Buggy only to be punched right in his big red nose by the straw hat wearing captain keeping the clown silent.
After freeing himself from Luffy's grip Buggy went to explain why he hated Shanks who according to him robbed him of a treasure and hi ability to swim by making the then teen swallow the devil fruit he intended to sell. (If yo want to know more about what happened read the manga vol 3 chapter 19)
"I would say that Shanks saved your life." stated Luffy glad to hear that his role model was such a great man.
"That's not the point! The point is that I had to change all of my plans since all under water treasures are lost to me. I then got the idea to use these abilities of mine to steal all the treasures that are above land!" stated Buggy launching his upper body in the air.
"I'll crush any insect that would dare ro me of my treasure! I will kill any one that would steal from me." roared Buggy as he launched his upper body at Nami who was trying to steal from him.
She spotted him but was unable to react at seeing half a man flying right at her.
"Let go of my treasure!" roared Buggy.
"Shit he spotted me!" said Nami as she tried to run away but the weight of the bag of gold she was holding was slowing her.
"You thief, unhand my Gold or I will cut you in pieces." said Buggy as he readied eight knives held between his knuckles.
Buggy really shouldn't have done that as Luffy spotted his lower body parts not far from him. Nami was shocked to see Buggy suddenly stop not to far from her, she could see an expression of surprise and pain on his face.
The reason for that was that Luffy had kicked him vey hard in the balls.
"How...Dare you stike at my scrotch!" moaned the clown in pain.
"In case you had forgotten, I am your opponent not her." stated Luffy. "Oï Nami as long as you hold that bag he won't stop attacking you."
"You ask me to let go of this treasure never! This treasure is mine why should I give it up." yelled Nami.
"Your treasure..." grumbled Buggy still trying to recover from the kick in the balls he received earlier.
"Exactly, I am a thief specialised in pirates and since I stole from you, that treasure is now mine." stated the thief.
"Are you mad! What you hold in your arms is mine, it is not because you stole it that it is yours! What did your parents ever teach you?" yelled Buggy.
"A pirate that tries to preach the good word isn't that cute. Allow me to say that I didn't reach low enough to allow a pirate to teach me anything." stated the thief.
"You will rue this words little thief...Bara Bara Festival!" yelled Buggy as he separated himself into many pieces that started to fly around.
"Ha ha ha so kid you still want to help your little friend?" taunted the clown.
"Hmmm the feet don't seem to fly around like the rest of the body parts." remarqued Luffy as he spied Buggy's feet walking around, he quicly caught one and started to torture it causing the clown to react in several different and funny ways.
"Oï stop kidding around!" yelled a panting Buggy as he had his foot tickled, pinched and his toes smashed.
"I agree with you." said Nami as she tried to use her bag of gold to hit the clown.
However that was quite a bad thing to do as Buggy caught the bag first with his hands, then he bit the bad and tried to hit Nami in the back with knives. Fortunatel for Nami Luffy choosed this moment to hit the clown while he was distracted.
"Good now to find the map." said Luffy while the clown was still stunned by the blow.
After searching all the body parts, Luffy found the map to Grand Line. Buggy choose that moment to wake up.
"Hey wait a minute kid, that map is mine. I will destroy you!" yelled Buggy "Bara Bara Rememberement!" yelled Buggy calling all his body parts back to him, however only his hands and his feet answered his call, the rest were trapped by Nami.
"Wha My body..." stuttered the surprised pirate.
"You are looking for this?" asked Nami as she stepped on the trapped body parts.
"She tied my body parts!?" yelled the clown in surprise.
"Well done thief, Now Buggy how about a littke trip, Genkotsu Meteor : Buggy version!" said Luffyas he grabbed the chibi Buggy and threw him far far away.
Luffy vs Buggy winner: Luffy.
"Now that is done will you join us?" asked Luffy.
"No I said we are allies, that's all we are, but I wont sticking around as you seem to be quite strong, at least enough to allow me to loot anything that might catch my eyes." stated the thief. "And since Baggy had a love of good treasure I might be able to get 10 millions Berries out of it."
"Do you mind holding half of it, as it is it is too heavy for me." asked the orange headed girl.
Luffy looked around and spotted Zoro still sleeping on the ground and went to wake him up, once done he went to wake the mayor up but before he could the other villagers came and chased them away, thinking that the three pirates were the one that did all of this.
Thanks to the help of Chouchou, the dog Luffy helped, they were able to escape unscathed to reach the harbor. Once there Luffy and Nami, the former holding the injured Zoro, found the three pirates that led Luffy and Zoro to Buggy. The three pirates fled once they saw Luffy and Zoro, they clearly remembered the beat down they received earlier.
"Hoi Nami, did you know you had Buggy's flag on your sail?" asked the captain.
"I couldn't do anything about it as I stole it from the three idiots that fled from you." replied the thief.
"Oh the mayor is here." observed Luffy as the two boat started to sail away from the town.
"You guys... Thank you for everything you did! I owe you a lot!"shouted the mayor moved to tears causing the three pirates to smile as they slowly sailed away to new adventures.
Open sea a few weeks later.
It's been a few days since the three pirates left Gaimon's Island after helping the strange man who gave them some fruits to help them reach Grand Line.
"It's not going to work..." observed Nami "If we want to reach Grand Line, the map only won't help us, we need a proper ship. Like that we wouldn't make it out alive."
"Yeah you are right but we need, more food, and also another crewmember, maybe one with some medical knowledge, because while I thank you for stitching Zoro's wound but I can't force you to do it every time one of us get hurt." replied the captain agreeing with his almost crewmate.
In a village on a nearby island.
A young long nosed teen was standing on a cliff looking at the sea in front of him.
"Ah it's a good day to come." said the teen before turning and running to the village screaming for help "Help the pirates are here! They are going to kill us, they are coming here!"
"What pirates are here!?" asked a random villager.
"Ah don't worry, that is Usopp he is lying." stated an older villager.
Soon villagers started to chase the lying teen to make him pay for telling such worrying lies, however the chase only made the boy happy as he laughed running from the villagers.
After the villagers gave up chasing Usopp, as the teen hid in a tree to escape his pursuers.
"Hahaha today too they trusted me." stated the happy young lier.
"Ah there he is." stated a young voice.
"Oh is that you guys?"
"Hi captain Usopp, have you slept well?" asked a young boy with pepper shaped hair.
"Your crew is ready for your orders!" said a young boy with carot shaped hair.
"Piiman, Ninjin there is two of you? Where is Tamanegi?" asked the captain of this young crew after climbimb down from the tree.
"He must still be asleep don't you think?" asked Ninjin.
"Yes that must be it." answered Piiman.
"Really what am I going to do with a late sleeper for a pirate?" wondered Usopp.
"HELP!" screamed a voice coming from down the road.
"Ah there he is." stated Ninjin.
"Why is he screaming like that?" wondered Piiman.
"It's awfull, the pirates have landed on this island. I swear it is true!" yelled the newcomer.
"Are you kidding?" chorused Usopp and his two young friends.
"Yes and I swear I saw the flag of Buggy the clown." stated Tamanegi.
"Are you certain?"
"Yes!"
"It's time to eat!" yelled Usopp as he fled in fear.
"Where are you going captain?!" asked the young crew.
"I have a terminal disease where I have to eat at regulat time unless I want to die." lied Usopp s he feigned being hurt.
"Liar!" chorused the crew.
"Captain, you always told us you wanted to become a great pirate." said Ninjin.
"How could a great pirate be affraid of other pirates?" asked Piiman.
"Yes and besides they are only three of them." added Tamanegi.
"Only three? I thought they all came here?" asked a shocked and hopefull Usopp.
"No there are only two small boat." explained Tamanegi.
"Perfect! It's time for the Usopp pirates to act, let's kick these guys off our island. Follow me Guys!" yelled Usopp.
"Aye captain!" yelled the crew.
Gecko island's beach.
"Great job Nami, we arrived on the right isand." stated Luffy.
"It's not that hard, when you know what you are doing. And we had a map so that was easy." said Nami.
"So we can reach the village by that road?" asked the captain.
"Yes but you shouldn't expect much it is just a small village." explained Nami.
The three pirates were watched by Usopp and his crew.
"Hey Tamanegi, is that them?" asked Usopp.
"Yes look at their sails it looks like a skull." said Tamanegi.
"They don't look that dangerous." remarqued Ninjin.
"You can say that again." said Piiman.
Zoro left the boat he was sleeping in, and stretched to get his feeling back in his members.
"Ah it's been a while since I walked on earth." said Zoro.
"It's no wonder you slept for a good part of the trip." explained Luffy.
"Hey, did you notice we were spied on, they are over there." stated Zoro pointing right at the Usopp pirates.
Seeing that they were spotted, the three kids ran away leaving Usopp alone to face the three pirates.
"Hey you don't leave me here!" yelled Usopp at his retreating crewmates.
"My name is Usopp, I am a pirate and my crew rules this Island with an iron fist! All the villagers call me Captain Usopp, showing the world my glory." yelled Usopp trying to bullshit his way out of a fight "So you should think twice about attacking, because you stand no chance against my crew of 80 millions men."
"Are you kidding?" asked Nami seeing through Usopp's bullshit.
"Argh how did you guess?" yelled Usopp.
"You just told me..." deadpanned Nami.
"Argh my tongue slipped, the plan fall shorts!" said the lying teen.
"Ah you are a funny one." stated Luffy.
"Funny!? I have pride mister, we don't call me Usopp the proud for nothing." replied Usopp.
Later in a restaurant called Meshi.
"So you are here to get a ship and recruit new members." stated Usopp.
"Yeah that's right." replied Luffy.
"Lucky for you I know where you can find both, for the ship I don't know if he will help you. He is the owner of the largest house in the village, or rather you will have to deal with his daugher as he died a year ago. For the crewmember you are looking right at him, I will gratefully accept the position of captain. " stated the long nosed teen.
"No You won't be captain." chorused the three pirates.
"You won't think about it longer?!" yelled Usopp, in shock.
Later near a large house.
Usopp left the three pirates at the restaurant as he had a date with the owner of the large house, however he had to dodge the servants and tha guards as the adults didn't appreciate his presence near the young owner of the house, the young and beautiful Kaya.
"Usopp you came!" said Kaya happy with his presence.
"Of course, Lady Kaya you look marvellous today." said the long nosed teen.
"So what story will you tell me today?" wondered the young heiress.
"Did you know that in the southern seas there is a Glodfish si huge that his shit forms Island of their own." told Usopp to the young girl that listened as his story made her travel something that according to her butler Klahadore was forbidden.
Back with Luffy and co.
The three pirates were joined by the young kids that were with Usopp earlier in the day, after alittle misunderstanding with the fate of Usopp. They finally agreed to lead Luffy and his friends to Kaya's house where Usopp was sure to be found.
Luffy decided to speak with the owner to convince her to give them a ship. All six of them slipped past the guards into the garden where they found Usopp talking to Kaya.
"Wh... What are you doing here?" asked Usopp shocked to find them here.
"He is the one that told us to lead his here." said Piiman as he pointed at Luffy.
"Who are they?" asked Kaya.
"Hello miss." said Luffy.
"This is a fan of mine who come from far away, he is now part of my crew." bragged Usopp with his arm around Luffy's shoulder.
"Euh Now In reality we came here to ask for a favor." said the captain.
"A favor? I will hear you out." stated the young heiress.
"We need a big ship." asked Luffy.
"You there, you are on private property." said a voice that instantly angered Luffy.
"Shit, there is the butler." grumbled Usopp.
"Klahadore..." softly said Kaya.
"You were never told not to enter other people's home with no warning." said the butler.
"Klahadore let me explain..." started the heiress.
"No need Lady Kaya, you can explain things to me after I deal with these trespassers. Please leave the property, unless you have a request to make." said Klahadore.
"Yeah I have a request to make, but not to a mere butler, no butler would keep his lady from speaking, something tells me you aren't used to obey orders but to give them so who are you butler?" asked Luffy looking at the butler, it was almost unnoticable but the young teen saw the butler flinch as he spoke, showing him this butler was hiding something.
Seeing that the young teen wearing a straw hat wasn't an easy target, the butler shifted his target to Usopp as the butler knew every and all of Usopp's weak points such as his father.
"You are Usopp aren't you. I know everything about you, you spent your day doing nothing but lie about pirate attacks. I know everything about your father too, the worthless man that left his wife and son behind to become a lowly pirate because he was ashamed of them." said klahadore hoping to have Usopp strike him so that there would be disagreement between the boy and Kaya.
"You stop talking about my father."
"Klahadore you go too far apologise to him." yelled Kaya to her butler.
"Apologise to this peasant, surely you jest lady Kaya, besides I am sure that the only thing that makes him spend time with you is that he is after your money."
"Klahadore!" yelled Kaya but the butler didn't listen to her as he kept angering Usopp.
"You are getting angry for such little things, how about you tell us a little lie about your father being a merchant or how about that your aren't his real son." continued Klahadore.
"Hey Krapadore, first your voice piss me off so shut your mouth, second I have no respect for someone that wear a jacket with golden poop on it, third, I finally remembered where I had heard the name Usopp before: from his father Yassop who is a valued member of the crew led by Shanks and also can't shut up about his son and last I have business with the lady behind you not with you so begone from my sight you lowly butler." said Luffy as he kept Usopp from hitting the butler.
Every one were shocked first at the way Luffy spoke with Klahadore, and about the crew which Usopp's father was a member off.
Kaya having enough of the behavior of her butler finally took charge of the conversation.
"Klahadore, enough go back inside, we will have a talk later about your behavior! As for you maybe we could talk about it tomorow, it seems I have a butler to handle." said Kaya as she glared at her butler.
"Thank you we will return tomorrow, we will stay in town until then." said Luffy bowing in thanks.
Later in Town.
Usopp went away to calm down, his three young friend went home, so that left the three pirates who spoke about the aftermath of the conversation Luffy had with kaya and her butler.
"Say Luffy I am impressed, you were really being a great captain out there." stated Nami.
"Well It's just that this butler rubbed me the wrong way, I think he is hiding something nasty. Besides manners were drilled into my head when i was younger." explained Luffy.
"You are right, the way he held himself... It's like he has been in swordfights before." observed Zoro.
"Bah let's just wait, besides i have to speak with Usopp about his father, if he has even half the talent his father had, I want him in my crew as the sniper." said Luffy.
"By the way Luffy how do you know such a big pirate?" asked Zoro.
"Didn't I tell you, He is the one that gave me this hat." said Luffy as he left to look for Usopp.
On the way he spotted a funny guy that walked backwards, the only reason why the straw hat wearing teen noticed the guy was because of the strange chakram he wore on his neck.
On a cliff overlooking the sea outside the village.
Usopp could be seen brooding, looking at the sea.
"Ah it's you." said the brooding teen as he spotted Luffy coming from behind him.
"You are Usopp, the son of Yassop, right?" asked Luffy.
"So you really know my father... What was he like?"
"He seemed like a fun guy, the greatest shooter I have ever seen, the only fault he had was that he couldn't stop speaking about the son he left behind...you." explained the straw hat wearing teen.
"He...spoke about me..." wondered Usopp in awe.
"Yep everytime I spoke with him." said the captain.
"So He made a great name for himself in the crew of such a great pirate." said Usopp "Guess I will have to leave to meet with him."
"Mah don't worry, If you have even half the talent of your father I want you in my crew." said Luffy.
The two kept talking about a lot of things creating a strong friendship, the sun was getting a little low in the sky, the two of them were about to leave when they heard voices coming from the beach, curious they slowly approached the edge to see who was talking.
Down there was Klahadore and the strage man Luffy saw earlier in the day, the two of them spoke about the plan Klahadore, who was really a pirate named Kuro and the other man former captain, created two years ago. (To see the full plan read the manga vol 3 end chapter 25 and chapter 26)
Having heard the full plan and that the actual was scheduled to begin in a few hours the two teens slowly wlaked away from the edge and started to plan what to do.
"We must warn the town, about the attack and god someone must warn Kaya about Klahadore or Kuro or whatever is name is." said Usopp
"We can't warn the town, they will think you lie and me and my friends are strangers so the villeagers won't trust us, what we will do is that you go warn Kaya, then join us to fight the pirates, from where the pirates could attack?" said Luffy.
"Hm either from here or the beach on the other side of the island." answered Usopp.
'That funny guy I saw was coming from the other side of the Island, maybe their ship anchored on the other side.' thought Luffy as he thought back to that weird guy.
"Maybe we should put some traps here just to be sure, and defend the other beach, that guy that was with the false butler was coming from the other side of the island." said Luffy.
"Ok!"
With the two of them it took only ten minutes to trap the slope going from the beach towards the village, when they were done Usopp ran to warn Kaya and Luffy ran to find his crew to warn them about the upcming fight.
Later Kaya's house.
After having taken a nap to rest a little, Kaya looked for her butler to speak with him about his behavior but was told by Merry another servant that he went into town, a little angry at being disoeyed by her servant again, the young heiress went in her room only to find a panting Usopp looking at her from the three branch he sat on.
"Kaya listen to me, someoe is trying to kill you, It's your butler, he lied to you his real name is Kuro, he is a former pirate captain that wants to take all your inheritance." said Usopp trying to warn Kaya about the false butler.
"Now Usopp I know that Klahadore, disrespected you and your father earlier in the day, but it's no nice to tell such lies about someone. I expected better from you Usopp." said Kayalooking disappointed thought she noted that the normally calm Usopp was freaking out.
"But I am telling the truth."desperately said Usopp.
"Please let me rest I still have to speak with Klahadore about his behavior so please return home, we will speak more tomorow." said Kaya dismissing the teen.
Seeing that his words weren't heard choose to leave to defend his village against the pirates.
Night was falling and still no Klahadore so Kaya went to sleep vowing to talk to her butler in the morning the following day.
The butler returned later in the night and was confronted by Merry another butler about his earlier behavior not knowing that the other butler was really a pirate and that he was very angry about what happened.
"Klahadore where were you the mistress wanted to talk to you, your behavior was no behavior a true butler should have, now I know you came into the service of the lady's parents only two years ago but that's no excuses. " lectured Merry.
Something inside Kuro snapped, his plan was about to become a succes so he had to do his part by making the accident that would happen to Kaya believable and that was by killing every one on the property. With that in mind he put his bladed gloves and just attacked surprising Merry who only had the time to open his mouth before he was cut. Kuro then went on a rampage throughout the estate killing all the servants and the guard that were on duty, for the others they wold be killed by his men when the attack on the village started.
Later Kaya woke up to a silence that wasn't normal, worried and with the earlier warnings of Usopp in mind, the heiress slowly walked out of her room, when she went to one of the rooms, her mouth opened in shock as laying in a sea of blood was Merry her other butler.
"Merry, are you okay what happened?" asked the very worried heiress.
"La...dy Ka...ya?" asked erry struggling to even breath.
"Don't speak, save your breath, you are going to be ok." sobbed Kaya.
"Do..n't lie, I ...Know ...I won't sur...vive cough Kla...had...ore, he ... killed cough everyone...He wants... your Inheritance...please...flee you...have to...live..." struggled to say Merry to his beloved mistress before breathing his last and dying in his mistress' arms.
End.
The crew :
Captain : Monkey D Luffy
First Mate : Roronoa Zoro
Ally/Thief/Navigator : Nami
Sniper : Usopp
Techniques :
Genkotsu Meteor : Meteor Punch : One of Garp's signature technique which he taught to Luffy. The user just had to launch a cannonball with their bare hands.
Kyokugi! Kaji Oyaji : Fire Breath : Cabaji spits fire at his foe.
Kyokugi! Yukemuri Satsujin Jiken :Murder at the steam bath : Cabaji spins his sword creating a smokescreen.
Kyokugi! Kamikaze Hyakkoma Gekijo : Dance of the 100 kamikaze tops : Cabaji launches 100 explosive tops at his foe.
Kyokugi! Yama Noboro : Hike in the mountain : Cabaji rides vertically up a wall.
Kyokugi! Noryo Uchiage Hanabi : Acrobatics! Let's climb a mountain : Cabaji leaps from the top of a wall.
Ichirin Zashi : Sting of the unicycle : Cabaji comes down from above his foe.
Oni giri : Demon Slash : Zoro slashes his foe with his three swords two diagonally and one horizontally.
Bara Bara Ho : Split Split cannon : Buggy launches his hand at his foe usually holding knives.
Kirihanashi : separate : used after Bara Bara Ho Buggy laungches his hand after having launched his forearm surprising his foe.
Bara Bara Senbei : Split Split Rice cracker : Buggy launches his legs spinning after having unsheathing a knives he had hidden in his shoes.
Bara Bara Festival : Splt Split Festival : Buggy separates all his bodyparts making them fly around to hit his foes.
Genkotsu Meteor Buggy Version : Meteor punch : Buggy version : A version of the original using Buggy instead of a cannonball.
What will happen to Luffy and his friends, will the attack of the pirates succeed and what will Kaya do now that found out the truth about her butler and what he did to her servants? Find out next time in The nurse, the cook and the navigator!
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