Universe 12: The New World, The Great Pirate Era

"No! Please! Not again!" Zoro stuttered as he was pulled back at blinding speed while screaming.

"NAAAAAAH!LUFFYITOLDYOUTOSTOPDOINGTHISTOMEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

*CRASH*

"Oh, sorry. My bad." Luffy apologized.

"One of these days I'm gonna cut you to pieces..." Zoro groaned.

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"Welcome aboard the Thousand Sunny you guys! I'm the captain of this pirate crew. The name's Monkey D. Luffy and we're the Straw Hat Pirates!"Luffy greeted.

He was a skinny kid with black hair and eyes with an X shaped scar on his chest. His most noticeable feature was his straw hat. The rest of his crew finally introduced themselves.

"Oh yeah! Forgot. I'm Roronoa Zoro, the crew's Swordsman & second best fighter." Zoro said.

"The name's Nami. I serve as the crew's Navigator" Nami said.

Noel, Jubei and Tao bowed their heads.

"It's nice to meet you all. I'm Noel Vermillion." Noel replied.

"Name's Jubei Mitsuyoshi. Thanks for saven our keisters back their." Jubei thanked.

"I'm Taokaka, meow, but just call me Tao!" Tao said.

"Oh, by the way, Mr. Luffy. I have to ask how your arms stretched so far like that. How did you do that?" Noel asked.

Luffy pulled his cheek and it stretched like gum.

"Oh yeah, one time I ate a Devil Fruit so now I'm a Rubber Person." He oh so casually said. The three sweat dropped.

"Huh?" They went.

Zoro started to explain.

"You see, guys. There are these thing called the Devil Fruits, they're fruits that possess ancient and dreadful powers. There are a shit load of them and there are only one of each out there." Zoro explained.

"Yep! I ate the Gum Gum Fruit so now my body's made of rubber!" Luffy explained.

Zoro continued.

"They have all sorts of powers. They can make you fly, control water, split your body into pieces and reassemble, bring you back to life, give you aging powers, invisibility, read minds...

Invert your penis."

"Wait, WHAT?!" Jubei panics.

"Hahaha! I'm kidding, kitty. However, there is always a great price for great power. Once consumed, the Devil Fruit will always be a part of you so you can never be human again, plus it takes away your ability to swim. Once your in the water the Devil Fruit locks up your body so you can't move. So there you have it." He finished.

The trio gulped.

"So... these Devil Fruit thingies are bad?" Tao asked as if she was born yesterday.

"Wha- Of course there bad! Why do you think there called 'DEVIL' Fruits?!" Zoro replied, a little annoyed that Tao would ask such a stupid question.

"Don't mind her, she's kinda dumb." Jubei explained.

"Hang on. Luffy, I always thought pirate crews were huge, is this all you have?" Noel asked.

Luffy shook his head.

"Nah! There are actually nine of us but this is their week off! Me, Zoro and Nami are the only ones here right now. Anyway, I'm hungry! Wanna go get something to eat in town? We got a lot of money from out last adventure so my treat!" Luffy offered.

Noel shook her head and turned down his offer.

"Oh no. That's ok. We really don't want to be a burden like tha-"

"OOH! OOH! FOOD?! FREE FOOD?! CAN WE GO GET MEAT BUNS, PLASTIC MAN?! TAO LOVES MEAT BUNS!" Tao yowled in excitement.

Luffy jumped for joy.

"HAHAHA! YOU BET YA, TAO! NOW LETS GO GET SOME MEAT!" He said, happily. They both ran down the port singing...

"MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEATY MEATY MEAT BUNS!"

Everyone sweat dropped.

"Well, Noel. We've finally found someone as dumb and hunger crazed as Tao." Jubei said.

"Huh. Looks like we found Luffy a girlfriend." Zoro said.

Suddenly, Tao reappeared right in front of Nami.

"Whoopsie! Almost forgot about "those!"

"Huh? What are you- HUUH?!"

Tao gropped Nami's chest. Zoro's face went as red as a tomato while Noel and Jubei's faces stayed the same. This was just a usual habit of Tao's

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" The nav screamed.

"Hmm... There not as big and bouncy as they appear to be. Not bad, but not great eather. I'd say they're about average." Tao evaluated.

"What did you just say?!" Nami growled.

*sigh* "Tao feels so much better now, now to go get some food!"

Tao ran off again leaving Nami steaming.

"How the hell could she call these "average"?! They're not average! Are they?"

Over in town, Luffy and Tao, the two hunger crazed dummies were inhaling HUGE amounts of food at a local buffet. Luffy had ten plates cleaned and Tao had twenty.

"HAHA! I LOVE THIS STEAK!" Luffy exclaimed, with his mouth full.

"MEOW! THESE PIZZA BUNS ARE GREAT!" Tao meowed, also with a full mouth.

Everyone at the restaurant were just staring at the duo, dumbfounded by how much these two ate.

They finally slowed down as they finished their final plates and were both stuffed like briefcases.

"Man, that hit the spot!" Luffy sighed.

"Tao's stuffed, meow." Tao purred.

The waiter then approached the table.

"Oh god, I'm going to regret saying this but... is there anything else you two would like?" He asked.

"Umm. How about the bill. Me and my friend are stuffed." Luffy replied.

The waiter's heart started up again as he heated the word 'bill'.

"Very well! Here you go." He said, handing Luffy the bill.

"Thanks! Now to just... hm?"

Luffy felt nothing in his pocket, and that's not a good sign. He checked his other pocket, nothing. He checked his back pockets, shirt pockets, even in his straw hat, NOTHING!

"Oh fuck..!" Luffy mumbled in desperation.

"Is something the matter, sir?" The waiter asked.

"Nothing! Nothing's wrong heh heh." Luffy replied, sweating.

He then moved beside Tao and whispered in her ear.

"Tao, have you seen my wallet?" Luffy whispered.

"Wallet? What's a wallet? I mean I saw you drop something on the street but I thought you were just littering, being a Pirate and all." Tao replied.

Luffy's eyes widened.

"WHAT?! Why didn't you say anything earlier?!" Straw Hat snapped.

"Was this 'wallet' thingy important, meow?" Tao asked.

"And Nami calls ME an idiot! Without my wallet I can't pay!" Luffy explained in a panicked tone.

"Is something wrong sir?" The waiter asked.

Luffy chocked. couldn't come up with an excuse to get out of this.

"Oh, please don't tell me you just realized that you have no way to pay off your bill?" He asked.

Luffy sighed.

"I didn't wanna have to do this but..."

Back at the ship.

Zoro and Jubei were sitting on the deck, drinking a bottle of vodka together. Noel and Nami were both out shopping so they had the whole ship to themselves. Zoro just finished jugging back the last of the Booz and took a look at Jubei's swords.

"Hey, Mitsuyoshi. What kind of swords are those you carry?" He asked.

Moss head was very curios about what kind of swords they were since they recovered it from the other ship. Jubei turned to his blades and took them out the scabbard.

"These? There called the Nox Nyctores: Mucro Somnio: Musashi. They're special blade that my wife created that can cut 'what normally can't be cut'." Jubei explained.

"Soooo. What you're saying is that those things can cut through pretty much anything?" Zoro guessed.

Jubei nodded his head yes. Zoro went wide eyed. He never heard of swords that can cut through anything!

"Wow, Mitsuyoshi! Your wife must be something if she can make swords like that." Zoro complimented.

Jubei rubbed the back of his hood and chuckled, but it soon turned into a frown as he remembered what happened to the love of his life. How she sacrificed herself to help him and his friends against Izanami.

"Nine..." Jubei said, under his breath.

Zoro saw Jubei's expression and recognized it. It was the expression someone makes when they loose someone precious to them. He knows. He lost someone too. Zoro smiled and stood up.

"How 'bout a dual?" Zoro offered.

Jubei looked up at Zoro.

"Huh?" The cat went.

"I wanna see the power of those Nox whachamacallits! What do ya say, kitty?" Zoro said.

Jubei thought for a moment. He could use something like this to take his mind off Nine but he didn't want to hurt Zoro. Finally, he made up his mind.

"Just do go easy on me just cuz I'm an old man!" Jubei replied.

A few moments latter, Zoro and Jubei were standing on opposite sides of the ship, about to draw their swords. Zoro's swords were different from his other ones. They were all green.

'If what he said is true and if his sword's CAN cut through anything, then I don't want my best swords to get snapped.' He thought.

Jubei grabbed his swords and unsheathed them. There were holes in the sides of his cat sleeves so he could just slip them in like rods and hold his swords with his paws like handles in his gloves. Thankfully, the holes in his sleeves are tight so they wouldn't fall out so easily.

"Summon Musashi." He growled.

Zoro pulled out two swords and put one in his mouth, then he pulled out the third one.

"What in tarnation? He's usen all three?" Jubei exclaimed.

They both stood their ground, wind blowing, water flowing, silence in the air. The two eyed each other for a while now. This is it. The Straw Hat's Swordsman vs one of the Six Heroes.

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Zoro was the first to go!

"ONI GIRI!"

He attacked Jubei with two swords in his hand and turned his head to strike with the other one in his mouth two, attacking with all three swords at once! Jubei crossed his Musashi and blocked Zoro's attack. The Swordsman seemed surprised.

'What?! He blocked my Oni Giri?! No ones ever done that before!' Zoro thought.

Jubei grinned.

"My turn, son!" He said.

The cat swung his swords like a maniac with incredible speed. Sparks flying everywhere and Zoro could barely keep up! For an old cat he sure is agile. Zoro stood his ground and swung his swords hard to the right, forcing Jubei to loose his groove.

"Shit!" The cat exclaimed.

Zoro pointed his swords at the cat and turned his head to point the swords in his mouth too.

"Three Sword Style: SWORDFISH STRIKE!"

He leaped towards Jubei and grazed his arm a little. The feline jumped onto the balcony railing and put a paw in his wound. Zoro jumped over Jubei and swung his swords hard, creating a wind projectile.

"Three Sword Style: 1080 lb. CANNON!"

Jubei jumped out of the way in time before he could get crushed by the shot but Zoro appeared behind him and drop kicked him into the deck. Jubei got up and Zoro was charging at him with great speed. Musashi was knocked clean out of the cat's sleeves and Zoro had a sword to Jubei's throat.

"Seems like your out of options, old timer. No swords and all." Zoro said with a muffled voice due to the sword in his mouth.

Jubei chuckled.

"Now who said Musashi were my only weapons, sunny?" He said back.

Suddenly, razor blades popped right out of the claws in Jubei's paw sleeves and caught Zoro off guard.

'What the?! He got razor blades in his coat?!' Zoro mentality shouted.

The cat kicked Zoro in the gut and charged at him, baring the biggest claws you ever seen.

"Alright, Let's see ya dodge this, ya little whipper snapper!" He chuckled.

Jubei swung his claws at Zoro and collided with his swords. The cat's barrage was relentless! He just kept slashing like a mad man until he finished with a cross slash and sent the pirate back. Zoro stabbed the deck with his swords to slow down and he eventually stopped.

"Damn! Alright, take this! TATSUMAKI!"

Zoro created a huge blast of wind that looked like a Dragon and shot it at Jubei, but he sliced it in half with his claws. The feline grabbed his Nox Nyctores with his tails and charged.

'He can swing his swords with his tails?!' Zoro mentality shouted.

Now wasn't the time for thinking. He had to counter and fast!

"Three Sword Style: GIANT HORNET SWARM!"

The two were like rabid wolves fighting over food as they collided swords and sparks flew like fireflies. Zoro managed to knock one of Jubei's swords out of his tail's grasp and struck, but the feline jumped into the air at high speed to avoid the slash and grabbed his blade with his mouth. Jubei then launched like a missile at Zoro, slashing his side. Zoro flinched and turned around to see the cat launching again, only this time the pirate reacted in time to avoid the attack. Jubei halted to avoid flying straight into the ship's side and removed the sword from his maw. They jumped back and landed on the sides where the started from. Zoro was completely out of breath as he tried to catch some air.

'Are you kidding me? How is this cat so strong?!' He thought.

Jubei looked like he was about to pounce again and Zoro finally caught his breath and resumed his stance.

"Hehe. What do ya say we end this, kid?" Jubei said with a smile.

Zoro put on his black bandanna and tightened it around his head, while Jubei removed his hood, revealing his long, ebony black hair and holding his swords with his tails as his paw blade unsheathed.

"Fine by me. Come on, kitty cat!" He taunted.

Jubei leaped towards Zoro with his blades ready. The wind causing his long hair to fly through the air. He mid air summer salted Sonic the Hedgehog style and struck the pirate with his Musashi on his tails, causing the wood to crack and form a small crater. Jubei's eye widened as he saw Zoro has blocked his attack, with his arms! They were covered in some strange black aura and seemed unharmed. It was Zoro's Armament Haki!

"I call this No Sword Style!" Zoro exclaimed.

He cross chopped his arms and a huge typhoon was generated, trapping the cat inside.

"GREAT TATSUMAKI!"

The typhoon tore the ship's deck to sheds as it rampaged around the Sunny until Jubei broke free. He placed a sword in his mouth and dived at Zoro with blinding speed.

"Twin Guardians: MOURNING SHORE!"

Zoro dodged Jubei's attack but just barely as the impact of Jubei's attack broke through the deck of the ship leaving a large hole. Zoro looked down into the hole and saw no signs of Mitsuyoshi.

"Not exactly the brightest kitty, using an attack like that on a ship over water." Zoro snickered.

He turned around and walked away from the hole only for Jubei to reappear behind him and slash the pirate from behind.

"Not exactly the brightest pirate, turning his back to a still able opponent!" Jubei retorted.

Zoro jumped away from the cat sheathed two of his swords, except one. He then covered it in Armament Haki. It was time to end this

Jubei charged at Zoro and they were about to use their best attacks.

"Here I come, Roronoa Zoro!" Jubei hissed.

"Bring it on, Jubei Mitsuyoshi!" Zoro taunted.

"Thousands Hands:

"Black Sword:

ROARING PILLAR!"

DEATH LION'S SONG!"

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"Sorry, kid. I may be old, but this kitty's still got claws" Jubei said, as he sheathed his swords.

*click*

*snap*

Zoro's spare swords broke. He turned towards Jubei and bowed his head in respect. He had never faced an opponent THIS strong before.

"Thank you for the fight." Said Zoro.

Jubei turned around and bowed back.

"Hahahaha! No problem, kid. I should be thanken you for helpen me get my mind of my wi-"

"WHAT THE HELL?!"

The two went white and turned to the dock with fear in there eyes. Luffy was back, pissed.

"WHAT DID YOU TWO DO TO THE SHIP?!" He yelled.

It appears that the ship was a reck after the fight and it looks like they're about to pay the price.

"Oh shit..." They both went.

Next time

Kagura wakes up in a house on an island with an old man and some people who can to visit the old timer.

However they are approached by a strange man who is looking for some one by the name of...

Kakarot!