Well I'm back again, I know it is fast but I'm on a roll at the moment; I suspect that stuff will slow down in a few chapters. I'm still looking for a beta BTW, one that is good with removing spelling errors and can help me flesh out the story a bit more, because if I'm totally honest, save for some key scenes I'm making everything up as I write, and that can only get me so far
This chapter will feature both Zoro and Nami joining, though with a small twist
POLL
Also since someone asked, I opened a poll, concerning if you want Sabo to have a devil fruit and if yes, which one, on my profile, it will stay open until I either have a new poll or we get to that point
Legend: see chapter 2 (note: Sunny the klabautermann is referred to as Sunny. And Sunny while in ship form will be referred to as The Sunny)
Story start
Chapter 4: green, orange, strawhat and a ship
Somewhere in the east blue: 2 days after setting sail, early in the morning
Luffy and Sunny were sailing for a while now, going where the wind takes them, that is, until Luffy got bored of drifting around (read: all the meat was consumed) and asked Sunny who his first mate was in her time
"We didn't really have a first mate, though if you had to choose then I would say it would be Zoro" sunny said "but since I'm the first to join you crew this time can I be the first mate?"
"Okay, sure" Luffy agreed "but tell me, is this Zoro strong?" Luffy asked
"I would say he is the strongest swordsman in the east blue, and he has the potential to become the greatest swordsman in the world" Sunny answered, hoping Luffy would agree to make him join the crew
"Take me to him" Luffy ordered, he was exited, after all; the future pirate king had to have the future greatest swordsman on his crew. Though now that he thought of it, he wasn't that great at navigation either; so a navigator was a must, a cook to make meat was also needed, and of course a shipwright who could take care of Sunny, a doctor to take care of him and his crew, he was also thinking to recruit Yasopp's son if the boy was any good and most importantly: a musician, because pirates love to sing
This is when Sunny snapped Luffy out of his thoughts "Luffy there is a pink pirate ship attacking another ship, wanna help out?"
"sure, I'm bored anyway" Luffy said "And ask for the way to shells town, its where Zoro is and I have no idea on how to get there" Sunny shouted before he nodded and launched himself to the ship with Sunny following him at full speed using her engine, happy that she was smart enough to stock up on fuel barrels
Luffy landed on a whale, who, after further examination was revealed to be a very ugly woman
Getting up Luffy looked around
"Why are you guys looking at me like that" Luff asked
"Where the heck did you come from!?" one of the pirates shouted
"I launched myself from my ship" Luffy said, pointing to the new ship next to theirs
"Luffy we need to get to shells town, hurry up please" Sunny said, in response Luffy let loose a blast of haki that knocked everyone out (including an orange haired stowaway in the sunny and a pink haired boy next to him) "and take that pink haired boy with you" she added.
Luffy nodded and did as he was told, knowing that whatever it was, it was important to take the boy with him if Sunny said so.
On the sunny: a few minutes later, a few km away from where we last were, orange and pink are still out cold
Sunny came out of the ship carrying an orange haired girl, and upon being asked who she was, she answered that she was one of his future nakama, and that she was one of the greatest navigators in the four blues and the grand line.
"Whoa, cool" was his response
After a few minutes, the two woke up and Sunny disappeared into her body not wanting to reveal herself to someone who wasn't part of Luffy's family or one of his nakama; orange was the first to react
"Who the heck are you guys" she asked
"I'm Luffy"
"My name is Coby, and who are you?" Coby, the now named pink one asked
"I'm Nami and I love money and mikan" the orange haired girl, Nami, responded
"Cool, can you bring us to shells town? I heard Zoro is there, and I wanna make him join my crew"
"Sure, but what do you mean by crew? You aren't a pirate, are you? Because I hate pirates, they took my mother from me"
"Of course I'm a pirate! I'm gonna be King of the Pirates after all" Luffy responded "and not all pirates are bad, like not all marines are good" he continued
"P-P-Pirate king!?" coby said
"That's what I said, wasn't it?
"Does that mean you are going after one piece?"
"Yep"
"And that you are heading for the Grand Line, the Pirate Graveyard?"
"I'm on my own now, but once I have more nakama? Yes"
"Impossible, impossible, Impossible" *bonk* "ow, why did you do that?"
"Because I don't care if it's impossible, I'm gonna do it, but if I don't, that's fine too, at least I tried"
The response inspired both Coby and Nami; Coby responded first "so, do you think that if I truly tried I could become a great marine? Like the hero Garp?"
Trying hard not to wince at the memories that came with the name Luffy responded "yes, yes you can" he turned to Nami "can you take us to shells town now?"
The question broke the girl out of her musings, and she nodded asking if this was his ship. Luffy responded with a nod and asked her to join his crew, he got a no in return, but said that she was willing to help him until shells town where they would part ways
A few minutes later
Nami had never had such smooth sailing before, the ship was a dream to pilot, it responded to her thoughts, desires and directions as if it could read them, (which the Sunny could, in a way, not that she knew) it was for that reason they reached shell town in record time, before the
Shell s town: after Nami split off from Luffy and Coby, its midday
"So I heard the marine in command in this base is axe hand Morgan" the comment sent the civilians scuttling away in fear
"Huh, I wonder why they reacted that way?"
Maybe cause he's a bad man?" Luffy answered
"But that is impossible, he's a marine"
"not all marines are good, believe me, I know someone who knows" referring to the sunny and her stories about a marine that in her time killed ace, he refused to know more, not wanting to believe ace could die, though in his hearth he knew that someday he would need to know the story, especially if something like that happened in this time too.
The two remained silent after that, Luffy using his haki to try and find where Zoro was, by listening to the people talking and feeling their emotions, though he frowned when he felt that all people save himself, Coby and Nami, who was already in the marine base looking for something, had some measure of fear in them, he also felt Sunny following them using her klaboutermann, he noted that she was pretty good at hiding herself from the crowds, though that came as no surprise after Luffy snuck into high town with Sunny when he was 16 to prank all the nobles, for training of course, he smiled at the memory
Coby suggested they go and eat somewhere, Luffy agreed, remembering he hadn't eaten since dawn, having missed 2 meals and 3 snack moments already, he would have eaten more but Sunny refused to tell Luffy the code on the lock of her fridge ,so he was stuck munching on the dry ingredients in the food storage. Sunny was a great cook by the way, way better then him, though Sunny said she wasn't as good as their future chef
Inside the restaurant
They talked for a while, but when Luffy mentioned Zoro a sense of déjà vu overcame them as the people in the restaurant pressed themselves against the wall or fled out of the door, this only served to scare Coby more
That is until a little girl came up to them and told them Zoro was captured because he killed the pet wolf of Morgan's son after he let the beast run wild in the streets of the village, she also told the two were Zoro was. After their meals they went to find Zoro as soon as possible.
The yard in front of the marine base where Zoro is held: a few minutes after they ate at the restaurant
The two boys were looking over the wall and found a man tied to a post.
"Those menacing eyes, that ominous aura and that black headband. That is definitely Roronoa Zoro" Coby stated. Whwn when Rika, the girl from eathouse came to give Zoro some food, only to be rejected when she made the rice balls sweet instead of salty,
Rika then mentioned that Morgan's son, Helmeppo was planning to execute him in three days, depite the agreement they had. She was discovered afterwards and thrown off the terrain by the marines on Helmeppo's orders,
Once the marines vanished (and Nami left the marine base, he noted with his haki)
Their first meeting goes almost exactly like cannon, except for Zoro agreeing to become a pirate under Luffy knowing that he would be treated as a criminal anyway if he escaped, letting himself get killed was not an option, so he agreed as long as Luffy wouldn't get in the way of his ambition of becoming the world's greatest swordsman, and that he had to pay with his life if he did, and if he would get him his swords form the marine base
In response Luffy asked Coby to guard them, saying that Sunny would help them if he really needed it, that last part confused Coby, but he agreed either way
Just outside the marine base building
"Looks like everyone is up top, let's go there and ask where Zoro's swords are, Gomu gomu no rocket" Luffy said as he launched himself into the sky, using the statue that was lying there to stop his ascend
Again this is completely like cannon so I'll skip this part, only difference being Morgan ordering some of his men to execute Zoro as soon as possible, before going down himself to see the execution happening
Back on the yard were Zoro is: just after Luffy left
"So, how was your day" Coby asked, somewhat nervously
Zoro gave him an emotionless look "I was tied to this pole the whole day, and three weeks before that, while being fed occasionally by a little girl but otherwise left to starve" Zoro said "how do you think my day was?"
"Miserable" was the answer Coby gave Zoro "at least they gave you water, right?"
"Yes" Zoro said, deadpan "once every three days half a liter or less of water"
Coby was shocked "How are you even alive? A normal human needs water every day to stay healthy!"
"I don't care, to be the best you need to be more than human, this is only a trial for me to becoming the best" Zoro didn't know how right he was, he also didn't know to what extent yet
Once again Coby was impressed, this time by Zoro's conviction and he resolved himself to join the marines no matter what the cost
"I want to be a marine admiral, but I haven't even joined the marines, do you think I can do it?"
"No" Coby deflated ath the answer, but perked up when he hear what Zoro said next "not as you are now,but if you work to improve your, and don't falter and fight for what you believe is right, then I believe you may just be able to do it, but you still have to join the marines" Coby deflated before he adapted a serious face full of conviction 'I'm going to ask it, I'm going to join the marines and I will not take no for an answer' Coby thought, his conviction would be tested moments later when a group of marines came into the yard, and aimed their rifles at Zoro
"Stop!" Coby screamed, holding his arms wide to stop them "why are you listening to that tyrant, why don't you inform the higher ups or arrest him and lock him up for power abuse, are you that afraid of one man!? I want to be a marine but I don't want such a man as my superior, he brings shame to the marines!"
After Coby's short speech the men lowered their rifles thinking over what the boy said and eventually agreeing. Murmerings formed as the group discussed on what they should do; on one hand Morgan was their superior but on the other hand he was just a man who let the power he had get to his head, and effectively lost his position when he started to abuse his powers, all they had to do was to report to Morgan's superior and they would launch an investigation and if he was found guilty they take him in, but that was where the marines could not act, the only denden mushi with enough reach was in Morgan's possession, the rest only had a baby denden mushi, and anyone seen sending out a distress signal using it would be executed on the spot by Morgan or the nearest marine, lest they be both executed if Morgan ever discovered it. And if they acted themselves they would capure Morgan and take him in but they would lose a lot of men in the process. And there still had to be an investigation to investigate Morgan's actions, and if he wasn't found guilty of power abuse, they would release him and take them in instead. Then a voice broke them out of their discussion
"It seems we have a lot of traitors to execute, but I will give you one chance to redeem yourself, kill them or I will, followed by you traitors
In response the marines raised their guns and fired shortly after, shooting both Zoro and Coby who stood before him, all the while apologizing in their minds. Then a mysterious figure appeared, it looked like a young carpenter girl wearing a coat that covered most her body, holding a hammer in her right hand, both arms spread wide, standing in front of Coby and Zoro using her Black sheened body (even her coat had a black sheen Zoro noted) to shield them, the bullets bouncing off her like she was a steel wall
Coby who was busy thinking he was going to die before he could even become a marine opened his eyes, wondering why he wasn't full of holes, he too saw the mysterious girl
"Well said Coby" the mysterious girl said, then Luffy appeared
"Thanks Sunny for protecting them, by the way Zoro here are your swords, there were three of them and I dunno which are yours, so I took em all"
"They all belong to me, I use Santoryu" Zoro said
Luffy cut Zoro loose using one of the swords and gave them to Zoro "care to demonstrate your style on the axe man over there?" Luffy asked
Zoro's response was a bloodthirsty grin "gladly, captain; Santoryu: oni giri" and just like that Morgan was defeated by Zoro, the marines both cheering at Morgan's defeat and cowering for Zoro's bloodlust
Luffy meanwhile was grinning, he had a new nakama and he knew who he wanted next, that orange haired girl, Nami. Using his haki he felt her getting into a buiding, presumably a bar or a motel for her to sleep the night away, he would follow her and ask her to join the crew the following day
Coby at the same time was asking if he could join the marines, who responded that they already knew of his background as a slave for a pirate crew, maybe not willing, but he was a former pirate nonetheless, and only after declaring his dream to become a great marine and some positive words from a few off the marines who heard his speech he reluctantly accepted, saying that if they were wrong the fault would be on them.
"So who is the girl?" Zoro asked
"That Sunny, she's my ship" Luffy answered
"How can a girl be your ship?" a confused Zoro asked
"Simple, she's a mystery ship"
Zoro was having doubts now, who the heck did he join? He hoped Luffy wasn't some loon that would get him killed.
A marine came up to them asking if they were pirates, the answer was yes, and the marines, as thanks, allowed them to stay on the island for the night though they had to leave within an hour of sunrise, or they would be breaking protocol too much
Luffy, Zoro and Sunny went to the restaurant of Rika's mother, and were allowed to stay for the night.
Second floor of the restaurant: almost midnight
Luffy was already sleeping with a belly full of meat and Zoro was talking to Sunny.
"so, is it true what Luffy said, that you are his ship?" Zoro asked Sunny
"In a way, this body is not a ship, this body is my consciousness given form, my 'real' body however is a ship"
"How can a ship even be alive?"
"In two known ways, the most common way is when a ship that is loved reaches the end of its life but wants to carry them further, in response the consciousness is given form as a klabautermann, which is what this body is called,and uses it to repair the damage done as good as it can, though the skill the ship has repairing itself is dependent on the skills of the ships shipwright, in fact a klabautermann inherits all the skills of their crew to a lesser degree, except for haki, though I'm guessing that the types it can learn are dependent on the crew, and devil fruits"
"And the second way?" Zoro asked, filing away the words haki and devil fruit away for later questions
"…when a ship that was loved to the extreme loses its crew, which is what happened to me" Sunny said quietly "my former crew loved me so much that it granted me special powers, the power to travel back in time, the power to change the future, in a way."
"That crew was Luffy's, wasn't it?" While it was a question, the tone said that it was a statement.
Sunny nodded "Yes, it was, and I hope to change your future to prevent my past from repeating itself."
"So what are you going to change?" Zoro asked
"I already changed a lot, but what I'm gonna change now is that tomorrow you will get haki training, and I'm going to teach you how to cut steel. I will teach you how to launch a flying slash attack once you get 2 new swords of at least the skillfull grade, but preferably better. That reminds me, we need to buy 3 training swords for me to help you train"
Zoro was meanwhile grinning at the prospect of learning to cut steel, before deciding it was enough for today and he went to bed while Sunny disappeared back into her real body
Next day early in the morning, sunny is back at the restaurant to wake Luffy and Zoro
"Luffy, Zoro, wake up!" nothing happened so Sunny decided to use drastic measures "Luffy wake up or we won't have meat in the ship, and Zoro, wake up or no cutting steel" while it was said quietly it seemed both had heard it because they shot up Luffy begging her not to do that while Zoro gave sunny a disapproving look, both of which sunny ignored
"Well, now that you are awake could you guys please help me stock up on meat for the journey, we also need sake, and some vegetables, or else I can't cook some of my dishes" Sunny said "And hurry up please Nami has also woken up, and she will be leaving soon too"
At those words they went out Zoro to buy some training swords for both him and sunny, using what little money he had while sunny went out food shopping with Luffy
When they returned Nami already had a 20 minute advantage on them, thanks to Zoro getting lost and Sunny forgetting about his nonexistent directional sense. Sunny was happy she could still sense her if she stretched her senses as far as she could in Nami's direction after stucking up in record time they set out in pursuit of Nami
Once they set sail she answered some of Zoro's other questions about devil fruit and haki, also mentioning that she would teach Zoro about cutting steel once she acquired some to practice on
Meanwhile with Nami
Nami was happy she found this boat she could 'borrow' though 'borrowing' things from people that were not pirates or other thieves left a bad taste in her mouth
'It's for saving my village, to free my friends from Arlong, I'm almost there' she reassured herself
She then noticed a change in the wind; she also saw a better fishing boat that could survive the coming storm. Nami smiled deviously.
Back at the sunny: later that day, only a km from Nami
Sunny had explained haki to Zoro, and to say he was exited was an understatement, he was doing exorcises to unlock his armament haki until Sunny mentioned there was a training room in the crow's nest, and after half a day of haki exorcises that didn't seem to have any effect (though Sunny did say it took a while to unlock haki) he was eager for some good old fashioned weight lifting
Luffy was sitting on the railing with a fishing pole waiting for the fish to bite, he too had gotten some training in today, mainly on finding a way to use a gear second technique to increase his normal speed, kinda like how his gramps did after he discovered an almost 17 year old Luffy had painted his face with a jolly roger, he seemed to disappear and reappear in an instant, having used it to catch him after the prank, despite Luffy dodging the first two tries and thanks to that managed to see how his gramps did it, he kicked the ground many times within a second, though Luffy was having some success in his gear using it, without his gear it was a lot harder, but Luffy was nothing if not determined, he also idly wondered if there were more techniques like that
The sunny was both navigating and steering herself, it was the advantage of being a sentient ship, and was following Nami at full speed. But if she stretched her observation haki into Nami's direction and past that, she could feel some presences which she presumed was buggy and his crew but she wasn't sure of that, with future Nami's logbook only going back until gecko island, the rest was guess work and stories she heard from the crew while they were reminiscing, and her own personal experiences only going back to water 7
Like Nami, Sunny also noticed the storm brewing so she had to slow down, wake Luffy up and take him from the railing to prevent the anchor from sinking like one.
Moments later
With Luffy woken up and safely off the railing with the help of a promise of meat and Zoro still training in the crow's nest the storm began, it was strong for the east blue, but laughably weak in new world terms, scratch that, it was laughably weak even for paradise terms
About an hour later, after the storm settled down
Though she had to slow down in the storm, even if was minimal in such weak storm they still had to land so following Nami at a distance she too moored in Orange town, a fair distance from both Buggy's big top and Nami's fishing boat and called Luffy who was trying (and failing) to raid the fridge back on deck
Once Luffy was on deck she explained "Nami is here, you go find her, and there are also some relatively strong people here by east blue standards"
Luffy nodded in response "I'll follow you after I wake up Zoro" Luffy nodded again and sent himself flying using a gomu gomu no rocket
Meanwhile Sunny disappeared and reappeared in the crow's nest and woke Zoro telling him there are some pirates he could beat, she also gave him a cryptic statement "learn to listen to all things, and learn to cut nothing, but the thing you want to cut" Zoro recognized the cut nothing part, so he figured it had to be a hint as to how he could learn to cut through steel
Meanwhile with Luffy, who is still flying through the sky
"I wonder where I will land" Luffy said to himself "meh, as long as it isn't water I'll be fine, I'm made of rubber after all"
His answer came not long after when he crashed into the orange haired girl he was looking for, allowing the pirates following her to catch up
'Oww what was that?' Nami thought to herself as she stood up pushing the boy of her body and ran a… whoa back up, boy? Yes there was indeed the strawhat boy she recognized from shells town standing just about where she pushed him, she once again got an idea
"Hey boss look out where you are going, never mind ,I got the treasure, you take care of those goons and we will meet up later" and Nami was running again knowing the strawhat boy, Luffy, she remembered, could take them all. She then got up onto a building to watch the show and was shocked to see that the boy had already beaten them, she knew he was strong, but to beat them that fast meant that he was really strong.
'Maybe he is even strong enough to beat Arlong, no, who am I kidding, no one in the east blue can beat Arlong, he's a grand line pirate.' Nami thought sadly
"Hey Nami!" Luffy shouted "do you wanna join the crew now?"
"No I said I hate pirates, why should I join one?" Nami said though something in the back of her mind said this boy wouldn't take No for an answer.
"But I will agree to a temporary alliance, what do you say" hoping he would say yes to this
"Sure, but let's first go to my ship and crew"
After Luffy took Nami towards his ship, meeting Zoro and Sunny about halfway they entered a random building and went on discussing terms, it ended with Nami joining the crew in everything but officially joining the crew, Nami was shocked that the stupid boy was that stubborn, but still great at negotiation.
"Hey Nami is this house yours?" Zoro asked
"No it was abandoned after Buggy and his crew set up shop here, I guess they scared everyone away"
"Buggy?" Luffy asked
"A pirate" Zoro answered "he has a bounty of 15 million beri, and is rumored to have a devil fruit power, I didn't believe that rumor, but since I saw yours, I think that rumor might be true"
"Devil fruits exist!?" Nami blurted out
Lufft stetched his mouth impossibly far "Wes I aave the gowu gowu no wi" Luffy said his speech unintelligible thanks to him still stretching his mouth while he said that
Nami was shocked to see that devil fruits were real
After a short while Nami recomposed herself "anyways, back on topic, I know you guys want to go to the grand line, and I know buggy has a map to the entrance, I will steal the map and all his treasure, and you guys will keep him busy while I do that, okay?" the three nodded and while Luffy and Zoro went to confront Buggy, Nami followed them at a distance, waiting fot the chaos the two woud cause and Sunny went back into her body, intent on causing some havoc for buggy and his crew and to give her crew a faster escape route
The fights were surprisingly easy, Luffy and Zoro tore through the mooks within 30 second, Luffy didn't even need to use his haki, and all who were left were big nose the unicycle man and the man and his lion
Buggy was raging, here were two nobodies that took out almost his whole crew, so he flashily ordered Cabaji to flashily fire a buggy ball at them and blow them to kingdom come, flashily.
So when he saw the one with the familiar stawhat inflate like a balloon and deflect his buggy ball back to him he panicked and used one of his men lying unconscious on the ground to shield him from the blast that destroyed the building he was standing on
Whe the blast subsided he saw that both his top men were still conscious and ordered the two to gang up on the one he recognized as Roronoa Zoro while he attacked the straw hat bastard, not noticing an orange haired girl going through the wreckage grabbing all the treasure she could find
Nami was ecstatic, she almost had 100 million beri, and in fact with this raid the total she would need was only 500,000 beri to get too 100 million and to free her village
Though she still hadn't found the map she was looking for so she looked around, and eventually saw it secured on Buggy's belt, so she shouted "Luffy! Buggy has the map on his belt can you take it? I already got the treasure" when she saw buggy looking at her, his eyes wide and in anger, she realized her mistake
'I'm going to die now' Nami thought as Buggy's whole body sans feet flew at her, knives in his hands floating before him
Though her death never came when giant a metal bike crashed into Buggy, sending him fling back to Luffy. Sunny asked if she was alright. Nami nodded. Sunny then suggested she loaded her treasure onto the bike so they could bring it to the ship, Nami nodded again and went to load up the treasure she had onto the bike, meanwhile Luffy was continuing his fight with buggy by launching a gomu gomu no pistol at him, Buggy's response was to use bara bara escape to split in 4 parts to escape a punch to the gut
And then launched a double bara bara hou at Luffy in response, Luffy dodged both in a manner that reminded buggy of an experienced observation haki user, like his former captain and first mate. This went on for a while with buggy attacking, even from behind and Luffy dodging, confirming Buggy's suspicion that the boy was a user of observation, so he resorted to his most powerful attack in hopes of overwhelming him bara bara festifal
Meanwhile with Zoro
Zoro was having little trouble fending off the double assault, though he still had to knock one of them out by the fact that both covered for each other's openings giving him no time to prepare and use his oni giri attack, then Zoro noticed something, the lion rider wasn't attacking him directly, only using his lion to do so, Zoro guessed that if he could take out either the lion or the man riding it he could take the unicycle swordsman out right after, so he prepared a technique "santoryu" and waited for one of the to react, he was in luck, both took the intentional opening Zoro gave them and attacked "oni…" but he didn't aim for the lion or the swordsman "…giri" and just like that the man riding the lion was defeated leaving only the brawn and the trickster swordsman
Then their battle fell silent when a wave of power washed over them that nearly made them faint
Back with Luffy: about 1 minute earlier
Luffy was effortlessly dodging the attacks but when he went and dodged a attack at his head, his hat didn't come with him and got hit instead leaving 3 knifes in it
"I knew this hat looked familiar, but now that I look closely at it I'm flashily sure of it, this is that red haired bastard Shanks hat" Buggy said while he reformed
"You know shanks?"
"Yes, he and I were once apprentices on the same ship" Buggy said, face full of nostalgia "the bastard is also the flashy reason why I have a devil fruit power, I wanted to dive for sunken treasures when found this fruit and the bastard flashily made me swallow it" 'and I was such a flashy swimmer too' Buggy added in his head
"So you were a pirate on the pirate king's ship? Cool!"
"Yes I was, the bastard I used to go flashily at it a lot after that incident, but captain roger and vice.. captain…Rayleigh…." buggy fell still "How'd you know that!?"
Luffy shrugged "Sunny told me, Ace and Sabo one day that shanks was a pirate on Gold Roger's ship so I thought you were too"
"And who is this Sunny? Tell me so I can flashily kill him or her."
Luffy stuck his tongue out "secret"
Buggy threw the hat on the ground and stomped on it saying "I'm going to beat it out of you then, here.. I… come?..." buggy stopped when he felt the familiar wave of intimidating power coming from that boy 'Why do I find a awakened conqueror in east blue of all places, curse my luck'
"Don't you ruin Shanks hat you bastard! It's my greatest treasure!" Luffy shouted angrily after he regained his slightly slipped control of his haki
Luffy pumed his arm, steam started to rise from his body and his arms gained a black sheen 'and he can also use armament haki? This should only happen in the grand line, not in the weakest of all seas!" buggy shouted in his mind while waiting for his demise, eyes closed
Buggy was battered by a baggage of punches in the form of jet gatteling, not noticing he lost the map, before the barely conscious buggy heard the last words he would hear that day
"Gomu gomu no jet bazooka" and just like that Luffy sent buggy flying at high speeds, leaving only the map that he one had as the only evidence that he was ever there
Back at Zoro's fight
The fight was already over, Zoro was the first to recover and took out the lion, leaving only the swordsman as his opponent, but outside of some circus tricks and some mediocre swordplay delaying the inevitable, he was dealt with quickly.
At the sunny: just after Luffy's control slipped
"Buggy damaged your hat, didn't he?" Sunny thought to herself when she felt a weak wave of conquerors. Not knowing Nami felt it too as a mysterious chill going down her spine. Before calling "Nami, the treasure room is below deck on the bow on the port side together with our lumber reserve which is on the starboard side" Sunny then brought both herself and Nami into the soldier dock
"Why would you put wood in a treasure room?" Nami asked after they got off the bike and went to the treasure room with the treasure she gathered. Sunny was about to answer but when Nami saw the amount of treasure already aboard she nearly fainted, that had to be enough to buy her village back twice over. And when she looked to the other side it was indeed stacked with wood of all kinds, from wood beams and planks to whole tree trunks that were stipped of their bark
"Again, why put wood you can buy anywhere in a treasure room?" Nami asked
"because this wood, also known as Adams wood is illegal and to get it you would need to buy it on the black market, if you were to buy enough to buy enough wood to make this ship and have enough spare wood for repairs for the rest of its journey you would need to buy 200,000,000 beries worth of wood" Sunny answered being care full not to mention she was the ship "I'm also planning to buy more of this wood, not much only 500.000 beries woth of Adams wood"
Nami was still kinda skeptical about the price of wood, but she accepted it and moved on. Climbing onto the deck just in time to see Buggy flying high over her head into the distance 'I hope Luffy thought about the map'
After that thought Nami went back to the battle field on foot, Sunny staying behind, not knowing she dissapeared back into her body after she was out of sight, not wanting to tell Nami that she was the ship until they were sailing again
On the battlefield: a few minutes later
The battlefield consisted of a bunch of rubble, unconscious mooks, an unconscious first and second mate, Luffy and Zoro, the latter 2 being the only ones still awake. Nami asked if they had the map with Luffy saying he forgot about it, before he found the map lying near his feet, having been knocked off Buggy's belt, saving himself from being punched in the head by Nami they were about to set out when an old man appeared and asked them what happened to the Buggy pirates, to which Luffy responded that they had beaten them, his disbelieving face was priceless, before he snapped himself out of it told them he would tell the others and ran off, leaving Luffy, Zoro, and Nami behind. Then Sunny came back asking the three if they found the map, when they showed it, she also mentioned that she needed supplies because her meat was almost gone. Nami took note of the way she said that and filed the question about that away for later, instead suggesting they wait for the old man to return.
And return he did, with just about an entire village's worth of people who were cheering for them, and suggested they prepare a feast and party for their saviors, the party was well underway when they discovered their saviors were also pirates, but most were too drunk to care at that point, though the old man who was revealed to be the mayor of the town asked Zoro if that was true, he responded that they were pirates in name only, and that his captain seemed more focused on adventure, freedom and becoming pirate king then plundering and killing, going by what little he had seen from his captain for a day and what Sunny told him, Nami heard it too and idly wondered if there were more pirates like Luffy, who were pirates only for the adventures and freedom the ocean offered
The next day
After stocking up with food, and a few steel bars of varying thickness, they set off from orange town was met with warm goodbyes.
After the were a good ways away Sunny revealed herself to Nami who was shocked to learn Sunny was the ship, she also learned her full name was Thousand Sunny, and that she was from the future telling Nami to read the logbook, or study the maps in the library if she didn't believe her. It took the whole day for Nami to come to terms with all the revelations, especially when she read the logbook and recognized her own handwriting, or when she recognized her own maps she made in the future
Like Zoro when she recovered she asked what she was changing now, and like Zoro she said she was going to teach them haki, but she also had a special weapon hidden in her girls room, and challenged her to find it, telling her she would understand the mechanics and features of the weapon easily
Next day
Sunny was nervous, tomorrow she would meet her predecessor, the ship this crew will never use, and whose spirit she carried in a part of her soul, she was hoping she could give it back to her, somehow.
The Going Merry
To be continued
Well then, with a record breaking 7000 words this is my longest chapter to date, don't expect long chapters from me often, I'm more comfortable writing 3000 word chapters, next chapter will feature Usopp, I don't know if he will join in the chapter but we shall see
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