Author's Note: Hey guys, here's the 1st chapter(technically second, but whatever) and just to warn you, there might be a lot of repetition of some words like 'as' and 'when', but I'm still a novice writer so don't be too harsh. Also, for the attacks, I put them in Japanese cause honestly, they sound better that way, but in the end, I'll put the information on each technique and it's English name in the bottom. So with that,
Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I Don't Own One Piece or any other anime.
Chapter 1: The Straw Hats are Back!
Luffy looked down from where he was standing as several Pirates fought against Marines that arrived after hearing the 'Straw Hats' were out of hiding and were recruiting.
He sighed as he thought to himself.
"How the hell did I get myself into this mess?"
He remembered, after saying goodbye to the 3 animals and Rusukaina, boarding Hancock's ship and being given a backpack full of food, which he accepted with a big grin. He was then warned by Hancock to try to stay low until he met up with his friends and gave him a pair of fake glasses with an attached nose as a disguise, which made him sweat drop as he declined the offer.
After being dropped off by the Kuja Pirates, Luffy started to head to Rayleigh's location using his vivre card with his incredibly huge backpack full of food, despite gaining immense power and knowledge, Luffy never lost his humongous appetite.
Luffy concentrated so hard on following the vivre card that he never realized that he ran into someone.
Seeing that the person fell down due to his mistake, Luffy apologized a little half-heartedly, due to his excitement of seeing his friends again after 2 years, and tried to leave as fast as he could while walking, but stopped when he heard the man he knocked down yell at him to stop.
The man then ordered him to apologize for not seeing him and for colliding with him. Hearing the anger in the man's voice, Luffy decided to try and apologize a little bit more sincerely, despite already doing so.
When he turned to the side to face the other man, Luffy's eyes slightly narrowed as he took in the appearance of the man and noted that he was dressed similar to his look from when he started his journey. This made him immediately deduce that this was the man who was recruiting other pirates using his name.
Using his Observation Haki, Luffy sensed that the man wasn't really that strong so he decided to not kick his ass because he guessed that someone else was bound to figure it out and do it for him.
Luffy did a quick bow and apologized to the Fake Luffy, making the crowd around them sigh in relief, before quickly turning and walking away. He was finally glad that was done and before he could celebrate, his backpack hit the Fake Luffy again.
Cursing the size of his backpack, Luffy gave a groan when the Fake Luffy had enough and pointed a gun to his face.
Luffy was so irritated by being stopped by the same fucking person who wasn't even worth his time that he, when a woman screamed and the Fake Luffy fired the gun, dodged the bullet with Observation Haki and sent out a weak pulse of Conqueror's Haki aimed for the Fake Straw Hats, causing said people to faint.
After the Fake Straw Hats fell down unconscious, Luffy continued on his way with the crowd watching the whole ordeal to just stare at the unconscious Fakes before they looked around in confusion, wondering what the hell happened.
A couple minutes later, where Luffy looked around as he walked wondering how many things changed, Luffy saw blonde hair and green hair amongst the crowd of people.
Excited in thinking that he found Sanji and Zoro, Luffy ran through the crowd and by the time he reached the pair of people he thought were his crew members, he frowned and released a sigh of breath when he discovered it wasn't them.
Before he continued on his way, he looked at the pair he mistook for his friends and deduced they were with the impostors he met before. This caused him to go from irritated to angry, despite it not showing on his features, at the audacity of these people trying to impersonate his friends and himself while ruining their image.
He was so pissed off that he was done playing nice and was dead set on kicking these impostors ass, so when the Fake Sanji and Fake Zoro gestured for him to follow them, Luffy did so willingly in a calm manner, but with unbridled rage begging to come out and lash out at the fools, causing said fools to shiver in fear before they looked around in confusion, wondering where that feeling came from.
When they reached their destination, Luffy saw himself standing in front of several hundred pirates talking or arguing.
Looking behind him, he saw all the impostors were here lined up with only the Fake Luffy standing beside him. Luffy, under his black hood, gave a dark grin as he thought how perfect this was.
The Fake Luffy then got the attention of all the pirates, causing them to look at them waiting for his words, and told them this is what would happen to them if they planned on crossing him. The Fake Luffy then took out his gun in preparation.
Seeing a perfect opportunity to finally rain on this guy's parade, Luffy brought out his right arm from within his cloak, ready to beat the hell out of his impostor, but was prevented from doing so by the appearance of Marines.
Cursing yet again, but this time at his luck, Luffy withdrew his arm and watched the seen before him.
The Fake Luffy looked slightly panicked before he gained a cocky smirk and ordered his subordinate Caribou, to use the Marine Spy as a shield to make a path, but Caribou doesn't listen and said some bullshit before killing them man, making Luffy look at the man in disgust.
That action caused a fight to break out and here we are now.
Luffy sighed and felt like rubbing his temples as he thought to himself,
"Every single time. I somehow end up getting in stupid situations like these. I don't know whether to call it good luck or bad luck."
He shook his head and watched some battles that interested him.
"Hm, it seems that Caribou guy has a Logia Fruit power. With the way his smothered that Marine, it could be bad to be caught like that," here he smirked, "unless you were someone like me, who could easily deal with such a troublesome power."
Luffy was kind of surprised at seeing the Marines losing to the group of pirates with most of them being at the level of canon fodders, but wasn't to surprised because the Fake Luffy motivated most of them with saying something about being the Right-Hand man and most kills.
He tensed up though when a bright yellow explosion occurred, killing some of the pirates, down below.
Sensing a familiar person, Luffy looked across from where he was standing and saw Sentomaru with 2 Pacifistas. He noted, with an amused smile, that Sentomaru was made an official Marine.
He frowned as he realized that Sentomaru probably identified that he was here, thanks to those damned Pacifistas. Observing how fast the Pacifista took out a pirate with a bounty, Lip Doughty he guessed, Luffy was able to see that the Pacifistas were about the same level as 2 years ago with some improvements.
Luffy rolled his eyes when he saw the Fake Straw Hats run after Lip Doughty was taken out and wondered how gullible could people be that they could mistake those impostors for himself and his crew.
The Fake Luffy ran into Sentomaru himself, causing all fighting around them to cease as the pirates thought he would fight and cheered him on.
Luffy, wanting to watch the impostor get slaughtered, sat down in the ground before taking out a piece of meat from his bag and started eating it.
Sentomaru glanced at the pirates around him with bored eyes before glancing at the impostor in front of him.
"Why are they calling you, 'Big Boss'?"
Fake Luffy, thinking the Marine would run away if he heard who he 'was', started to brag.
"Don't you know who I am?!" He started to glare defiantly at Sentomaru, but you could see snot coming out of his nose and sweat form on his face, "I'm Monkey D. Luffy! Son of Dragon and Grandson of Garp the Hero! I was in the War of the Best and have a bounty of-"
He was interrupted by Sentomaru, who yelled out that Luffy wasn't scum like he was, smashing the axe on his back on top of his head.
Luffy smiled in appreciation as he heard Sentomaru's words and was glad that the whole thing was cleared up. He chuckled at the pirates reactions when they heard who the impostor really was.
Seeing that the Fake was revealed, Luffy tried to get out of there, but had to do several backflips to avoid being blasted.
Luckily, his cloak didn't come off so maybe he could get away while blending in the crowd.
That thought vanished when he noticed that he landed right back on the platform he was before, causing all attention to be on him. The pirates there identified him as the real Straw Hat and the Fakes having panic attacks at threatening the real deal. Marines started shouting out orders at preparing for Luffy's capture.
Sentomaru stared at the cloaked form of Luffy and, despite not being able to see Luffy's face, trusted PX-5's locating system.
"Straw Hat!"
Luffy, even if you couldn't see it, was annoyed.
"What the hell?! I try to get back to my friends and set sail without a hitch, but all this crap happens!"
Sentomaru smirked at Luffy's displeasure.
"Don't worry because you won't be setting sail. I've become a Marine during the last 2 years and I'm going to arrest you here and now."
Luffy chuckled at Sentomaru's words, causing said man to shake in anger, before smiling under the cloak and saying words that shocked Sentomaru.
"I can see that, Sentomaru, and I have to say that you are a great marine that will rise in the ranks in no time," Luffy smile turned to a grin, "but I won't be arrested here. Not after all the training I've done."
Sentomaru regained his composure after being frozen in shock by his words and his anger rose to new heights at hearing the last part.
Turning around, he gestured to the Pacifista labeled 'PX-5'.
"PX-5! Shoot him down!"
PX-5 brought down it's head and opened its mouth. A bright yellow light appeared and it's form shook until it released 3 shots.
Luffy looked at the approaching attacks before he said,
"So slow."
Without the help of Observation Haki, Luffy swerved his head to the right then to the left before swerving to the right one more time as the 3 attacks passed his head, hitting a tree in the distance, causing an explosion to go off and wind to blow faster.
Sentomaru looked in shock as Luffy easily dodged the blasts from PX-5.
"WHAT?!"
Luffy's eyes hardened under his hat and went from defense to offense.
Slightly whispering under his breath, Luffy said,
"Soru."
His body disappeared and reappeared from above the Pacifista and coated his hand with Haki.
Pulling his arm back, he thrusted it forward and called out the name of his attack.
"Buso Koka: Gomu Gomu no Bullet."
When the fist hit PX-5 in the face, the Pacifista's body was slammed to the ground face first and bounced up in the air.
While it was in the air, Luffy brought his right leg back and kicked as hard as he could.
"Rankyaku."
The result was a sharp compressed air blade ejecting from where Luffy kicked with his right leg that cut the Pacifista in half from the waist.
The Pacifista's body then exploded as a result of being severely damaged.
In the air, Luffy flexed his legs…
"Kamisori."
and appeared back where he was before he attacked.
All this occurred within one second.
Everyone in the vicinity stared in shock and confusion when PX-5, who was standing still, suddenly exploded.
Sentomaru, though, was the most shocked out of everyone there.
"What the hell happened?! I was staring at Straw Hat the whole time and I didn't even see him yet, PX-5 was destroyed instantly! That is probably as fast as Kizaru when using his devil fruit! All I could tell was that he knows how to use Haki. How strong has he gotten in just 2 years?!"
After Sentomaru analyzed what he could, the Pirates in the vicinity also came up with their own conclusion that Luffy was the one who did it and now knew that he was the REAL Straw Hat Luffy.
Luffy laughed loud enough that Sentomaru heard it and said,
"It was fun and all, but I got to go! See you later!"
Luffy grabbed his humongous backpack with his left hand and effortlessly carried it over his back. He started running and jumped off the platform, heading straight to two familiar presences that made him smile.
"Wait, Straw Hat!"
Luffy ignored Sentomaru's words along with some Marine's ordering them to not let hi escape.
His smile got bigger when he heard an all too familiar, yet at the same time, different voice.
"Oy! Luffy!"
Two men were shown running towards the direction of Luffy.
The first man had green cropped hair that was slightly slicked back and was at a height of 5'11. The man also had a scar running over their left eye and a massive scar starting from their left shoulder to the right hip. He was a very muscular man wearing a long, open dark-green coat that showed no shirt underneath, closed on his waist by a red sash, which also contained three swords with each sheath being the color of white, red, and black tucked in the sash, where currently he had one sword in his right hand over his shoulder, a green haramaki under the coat, three identical gold earrings on his left earlobe, and a black bandanna tied around the left sleeve.
The second man had blond hair with one bang covering his right eye showing his left eye that was black, curly eyebrows, a dark goatee with some stubble on his upper lip and was at a height of 5'11. This man was wearing a black and yellow 3 piece suit.
These were Roronoa Zoro, Luffy's First Mate and Swordsman and Sanji, the Cook and Leg Fighter, with a bounty of $120,000,000 Beli and $77,000,000 Beli, Respectively.
As the two ran with smiles on their faces towards Luffy, Sanji raised his right hand in greeting.
"Luffy! I knew you would be here with all this trouble!"
Luffy, despite the situation, sweat dropped at his cook's words.
"Really, Sanji? After not seeing each other for 2 years, you're first words are to insult me?"
Nonetheless, Luffy replied back in kind.
"You don't know how much I missed you guys!"
Sentomaru, who just now recovered from his shock, narrowed his eyes.
"Roronoa and Black Leg! This proves that they really are back!"
Turning to the remaining Pacifista, Sentomaru gave it an order.
"PX-7! Take them down!"
PX-7's eyes blinked rapidly before they took action.
It jumped towards Zoro and Sanji while hiding within the dust cloud, calculating the success rate would be higher when unnoticed. It opened it's mouth and a bright yellow energy similar to PX-5 appeared, ready to blast the supposed unsuspecting targets.
Too bad for the Pacifista that the targets knew Observation Haki.
Zoro and Sanji's face grew bored and attacked it in their own way.
Sanji jumped in the air and spun, where when he stopped spinning, his right leg was on fire.
Zoro put the sword, that was over his right shoulder, in his mouth and drew his two other swords from his right hip.
"MOVE IT!"
Sanji kicked PX-7's chin, making it's head snap up and nearly rip, while Zoro cut it's chest in the form of an X with a line going through horizontally.
"I cut it!/I broke it's neck!"
When they landed back on the ground, PX-7 exploded from behind them, getting rid of it's body for good.
Zoro, who already sheathed his swords by the time he landed on the ground, pointed at Luffy with his left index finger.
"Just so you know, Luffy, you're the ninth to arrive."
Sanji immediately yelled at Zoro, telling him to quit that already, and turned to luffy while using his right thumb to point behind him.
"Luffy, let's go. Everyone's already at the ship waiting for us."
Luffy nodded his head in agreement and they started to run.
The marines behind them started to chase after them, but they were still pretty far from their area.
Luffy while running with Sanji and Zoro grinned from under his hood.
"I can't wait to see how the others are doing and how far they got in the last 2 years!"
Sensing an incredibly powerful presence, Luffy stopped running and turned to the left.
Sanji and Zoro stopped running and turned to their captain before Zoro asked,
"What's wrong Luffy?!"
Luffy didn't say anything. He just smiled from under his hood while Zoro and Sanji gained knowing looks.
Taking a deep breath, Luffy yelled out,
"RAYLEIGH!"
This made the marines running after them stop and the pirates still there to stare at a figure in the distance.
The figure was a man that stood around the height of 6'2 from what they could see and had round glasses, facial hair arranged embattled across his lower jaw, and a scar over his right eye. He was wearing a black T-shirt, a silver hooded cloak, and beige shorts.
This was none other than Silvers Rayleigh, The Dark King and Vice Captain to the Pirate King himself, Gol D Roger.
Both Marine and Pirates all yelled out in shock,
"THE DARK KING?!"
Rayleigh gave an amused chuckle and looked at Luffy with pride shining in his eyes.
"I just wanted to see how you were doing since the last time I saw you was 6 months ago. I didn't know it was possible, but it seems you've got immensely stronger than the last time I saw you."
Luffy looked at Rayleigh with his smile intact and nodded.
"Then you should probably head on back to your friends! You don't want to keep them waiting, do you?"
Luffy stared at Rayleigh as he thought about the last 2 years with the man.
Rayleigh taught him so much in such little time that it was astonishing. If it wasn't for him, Luffy doubted he would ever be as strong as he was today if he didn't stop to train.
Wanting the man who helped him be who he was today know how much he appreciated all he's done, Luffy brought his right fist to the air.
"Rayleigh! Thanks to you, I am stronger and smarter than I was 2 years ago. I will take on the New World and become the PIRATE KING!"
Rayleigh started to tear up before he cleared it up as he stared at the cloaked Luffy.
"Luffy, despite you not being my son by blood, you are probably the closest thing to a son than anybody else. I know you will do great things as you venture on in your journey and make many new friends. Just like Roger."
Rayleigh, not wanting to make Luffy think he was sad, chuckled at his words.
"It's not like you to thank me for your training. Now, GO!"
Luffy just gave his usual 'Shishishi' laughter before waving to Rayleigh one more time, and running with his friends right behind him.
One of the Marines got broke out of their shock from seeing the 'Dark King' and quickly yelled out to the others.
"What are you guys doing?! Get the Straw Hats!"
The other Marines jumped a little at the shout, but nonetheless, complied as they charged with a shout.
They were stopped from going further by a gigantic blue air blade that made dust fly everywhere.
When it cleared, it showed Rayleigh holding a sword with his left hand looking at them with a calm yet intimidating stare and a deep trench in front of him.
"Please do not interfere as my student sets sail."
Without even looking behind him, Rayleigh shouts out,
"GET TO THE TOP!"
The Marines were puzzled by his words, wondering if there was any hidden message in them, while Luffy who was way ahead smiled knowingly.
His eyes narrowed even further.
"Cross this line if you dare."
With Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji
After they got away from the Marines and Sanji collected his ingredients for the feast he was going to cook for the reunion, they started running towards the Thousand Sunny as fast as they could.
They were slightly annoyed when they saw another group of marines heading their way.
Luffy, instead of being irritated like last time, grinned in excitement.
"Looks like we'll have to take them out as we run."
He frowned a little in disappointment when the Marines were taken down easily by ghosts that made them feel so negative about themselves.
"Oh crap. It's that woman again with the power to make you feel depressed. If one of those things comes flying my way, I'm so going to kick it away."
Luffy was about to attack Perona(Didn't feel like describing her. Don't know what she looks like, watch the anime again.) when he calmed down seeing Zoro knew her.
Luffy laughed at Sanji's misfortune when he kept on sniffing Perona.
Perona told them that she was there to warn them about the Marine Warships that were arriving and that they should hurry up, with Luffy and Zoro nodding at her words, before she left.
They all felt another presence from the sky and when they looked up, they smiled at the person standing on the gigantic bird.
A small raccoon dog-like animal with a height of 2'11 was seen standing on the top of the bird's head. He was wearing a blue cap that has a ring of dots around the circle, while the cap has buckles hanging from it, with a pink hat under it, and a white and yellow vertical-striped tank top.
This was Tony Tony Chopper, the last member of the Straw Hat Crew and his role was the Doctor, with a bounty of $50.
Chopper giggled and waved his arms around.
"Guys! I'm here to pick you up!"
They all jumped on the bird, with Chopper resting on top of Zoro's left shoulder, and headed back for Thousand Sunny.
Grove 42: Thousand Sunny
"Yohohohoho~!"
This laughter was heard from a skeleton with an afro wearing a black coat, heart-shaped glasses, a yellow feather boa, a top hat with a giant crown on the brim, and orange red trousers with flower designs. In their hands was a guitar with the body looking that of a shark and the whole thing being the color of a light green.
This was Brook, the Musician of the Straw Hat Pirates, with a bounty of $33,000,000 Beli.
Currently, he could be seen riding on a flying fish that was preparing to land on the Thousand Sunny.
When he was close enough, Brook thanked the driver and jumped off the fish.
Taking off the hat with his right hand, he bowed as he brought his right arm across his chest.
"Everyone! I'm so glad to see you guys again!"
He stood straight up again and was greeted by everyone.
"Brook!"
"I see you left you're stardom. Good for you!"
"It's nice to see you again, Musician-San."
"I knew that laughter sounded familiar."
The first person was a man who was wearing a pair of goggles around his neck, some headphones or ear protectors, a white sun cap, a pair of rolled-up yellow pants with red suspenders, and a pair of boots. The man also had a little goatee, a long nose, and was at a height of 5'8.
The second person was also a man was exactly 7'10 and had humongous shoulders, torso, and arms, metallic nose, two stitch-mark scars on his torso running down from the back of his neck indicating that he had sewn his skin back on. He was wearing rigged suspenders, a red coconut tree-motived Hawaiian shirt, a red speedo, and sunglasses.
The third person was a gorgeous woman standing at a height of 6'2 and had long shiny black hair that reached her lower back, High D-Cup breasts with an hourglass and curvy figure like Nami. She was wearing a long pink sari-like skirt with a partially-zipped purple vest with a V-neck line and a white rose on her left breast near the shoulder, pink high heeled pumps, a pink back pack, and sunglasses.
The last person was also an equally gorgeous woman with long orange hair that reached all the way to her lower back, shiny brown eyes, a tattoo on her left shoulder that looked like a pinwheel with a tangerine growing on the top, and D-Cup sized breast along with a curving and hourglass figure that would make many models envious. The outfit she was wearing was a revealing green and white bikini halter top, tight low-rider jeans, orange high-heeled sandals, a pair of pearl-like earrings, and a log pose on her left wrist.
These were Usopp, the Sniper with a Bounty of $30,000,000 Beli; Franky, the Shipwright/Inventor with a Bounty of $44,000,000 Beli; Nico Robin, the Archaeologist with a Bounty of $80,000,000 Beli; and Nami, the Navigator with a Bounty of $16,000,000, respectively.
Brook laughed his usual laughter again as he walked to a barrel and sat down, with the guitar in his lap.
"Robin-San, Nami-San, you have grown so beautiful. Now, Nami-San," he strums his fingers on the the strings of his guitar, making them think he was going to sing until, "may I see your pan-"
He didn't get to finish as he was promptly kicked to the ground with a huge lump on his skull by Nami.
"Like hell I will!"
Usopp and Franky laughed joyfully, Robin giggled into her left hand, and even Nami cracked a smirk at the atmosphere.
After Brook recovered, he stood up and looked around in confusion.
"So it seems that not everyone is here."
Robin informed Brook of the situation.
"You don't have to worry about them. Chopper went ahead and went off to pick them up. They should be back in a couple minutes or so."
Just as she said that, a loud caw from a bird caused them to look up and what they saw made them all smile.
"Everyone! I brought them like I said I would!"
On the bird's back, Chopper was shown giggling from Zoro's left shoulder, with said man standing and giving a smirk, Luffy in his cloak standing there with his arms crossed and a humongous grin on his face under the hood, and Sanji also standing smoking his cigarette.
Usopp jumped up with his arms up, Nami waved with both her arms, and Franky and Robin stared at them with a smile.
"Luffy! Zoro! Sanji!"
Sanji smiled as he looked at each crew member until his eyes landed on Robin and Nami, causing him to freeze. He inhaled deeply and released out some smoke with his eyes closed.
Chopper smiled and giggled joyfully until he heard a sound similar to a ketchup bottle being used. Turning around, his eyes grew wide as he saw the sight of Sanji flying off the bird with a nosebleed.
"EH?!"
When they all jumped off the bird and landed on Thousand Sunny, Chopper turned around and looked down at Usopp holding onto a nose bleeding Sanji.
"Usopp! Is Sanji alright?!"
As Zoro walked passed Usopp, Usopp told Chopper to help stop Sanji's bleeding, with said man incoherently muttering something about 'beautiful and sexy women'.
Luffy had his arms still crossed as he watched Franky's performance of his new body.
"How do you like my new and improved body-mecha?"
Luffy chuckled at his words and looked up at Franky.
"You're body is impressive, Franky. I'm glad to see how powerful you got."
Franky was momentarily stunned by Luffy's reply because he was expecting a more hyperactive response, but nonetheless, smiled at the compliment.
"Thanks, Luffy."
Luffy nodded and felt a tap on his shoulder.
Turning around, he saw Nami there looking slightly panicked.
"What's wrong, Nami?"
Nami looked at Luffy with surprise, but shook it off, deciding to deal with it later.
"I heard a report of warships arriving on this island, so we should hurry and leave."
Not even a second later as she said that, the boat shook when a cannonball almost hit their ship, making everyone falter a little.
Usopp took a telescope from his bag and looked from the side of the Thousand Sunny.
"Three Warships are heading this way!"
Looking away from the telescope, he turned to the crew.
"Guy! If we don't stop this now, we could get killed!"
Usopp tensed up when he, through Observation Haki, felt 3 cannonballs heading there way.
Cursing, he warned the others.
"Three Cannonballs are heading towards us and are going to hit us!"
Everyone besides Luffy, who just stood calmly, were prepared to intercept the cannonballs when suddenly several pink arrows hit the cannonballs, making them turn to stone and drop to the ground.
They turned their heads and saw the ship of the Kuja Pirates.
While the Kuja Pirates were in front of the Marine Warships and talking to them, Brook and Sanji swooned over the beauty of Hancock, with Sanji literally turning to stone.
Robin was wondering about why the Kuja Pirates were helping them, but was soon answered by Luffy.
"Oh, it's Hancock and the others. No need to worry about the Marines, guys. They're my friends and are most likely helping us escape."
This made Sanji depressed at the fact Luffy got to live every man's dream while he had to go through hell.
Meanwhile, Usopp seemed to gain a serious expression on his face, concerning Chopper.
"Hey, what's wrong, Usopp?"
Usopp glanced at Chopper before he looked at the island.
"It's just, we've been here a while and I'm wondering, why aren't there any other Marines attacking us from the coast?"
On the island, several marines were being prevented from heading towards the Straw Hats by several weird and bizarre situations.
Some marines were being attacked by gigantic bugs.
Another group tried covering their equipment from rain that appeared out of no where.
Ghosts were flying through marines, causing them to fell depressed and lose all will to fight.
Finally, the most terrifying of all, marines were being kissed and hugged by grotesque men.
Usopp was brought out of his thoughts by Franky, who commented saying that it was great that they weren't being attacked, which he immediately relaxed and agreed with.
Franky nodded in satisfaction at seeing Usopp relax and informed Nami that he detached the air sack.
Nami looked at the mechanics in her hands and nodded her head.
"Yosh!"
Looking up, she saw Zoro and Brook working on the sails.
"How are the sails?"
They both looked down at Nami and Zoro answered her.
"We're all good here."
Luffy started walking towards the mast of the ship near Nami and asked her a question.
"Are we ready to go, Nami?"
Nami smiled and nodded her head.
"Yep. Everything's good and we can go on your order, Captain."
The rest of the crew proceeded to get in close as they prepared for Luffy, who stood on the seat attached to the mast, to give his speech.
"You guys! In these past two years, I thought about nothing, except rejoining you guys, stronger than before. I want to thank all of you with agreeing with my decision!"
Sanji smirked as he said,
"You sound like we've never dealed with your crazy plans."
Usopp, Chopper, Brook, and Franky agreed while laughing, Zoro smirked, Robin giggled in amusement into her left hand, and Nami shook her head with a smile.
Luffy chuckled as he nodded to those words.
"That's true."
Zoro, though, was wondering about something and decided that it was good as any to ask.
"Hey, Luffy," everyone looked at him, "why are you still wearing that cloak?"
Everyone were also wondering and never asked because of all that was happening.
Luffy scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Well, I was wearing this because I didn't want to be noticed until we got together, but I guess that it was useless."
Luffy grabbed the top of his cloak, making everyone feel excitement as they wondered how he looked after the 2 years, and pulled it off.
This made Zoro and Sanji impressed; Chopper, Brook, Franky, and Usopp to stare in awe and stars in their eyes; and Nami and, surprisingly, Robin, to blush with Robin only having a slight pink hue.
Luffy was wearing black dress shoes similar to Sanji, black jeans with chains by the right pocket held up with a skull belt, a red skin tight t-shirt that showed off a 6 pack and a body similar to Zoro's, but slightly smaller, and his straw hat around his neck. Strapped on his back was a black Bo Staff, with the ends being red.(Think Hiruzen Sarutobi's Adamantine Staff).
Luffy brought his arms to the sky and yelled out to the top of his lungs,
"SET SAIL!"
Techniques
Soru(Shave)- How it is done:kicking off the ground at least ten times in the blink of an eye. Effect- allows the users to move at extremely high speeds in order to avoid attacks, attack at higher speeds, and attack with more strength.
Buso Koka: Gomu Gomu no Bullet(Armament Hardening: Gum Gum Bullet)-Luffy stretches one arm, far behind him, uses Busoshoku Haki to harden the fist at the end of his stretched arm, then snaps it back to deliver a powerful short-distance, one-fisted blow to an opponent's abdomen.
Rankyaku(Tempest Kick)-How it is done: users start by kicking at very high speeds and strength. Effect- Sends out a sharp compressed air blade that can slice objects and greatly damage humans, or if with enough strength, slice a human in half.
Kamisori(Razor)- How it is done: A combination of Geppo(Moon Walk) and Soru(Shave), where the user uses Soru in a zigzag motion in midair, allowing extremely fast movements in three dimensions. Effect- can appear somewhere seemingly instantly or used to cut through enemies while utilizing its high-speed movements.