After having their morning coffee and grabing their climbing gear the crew moved out. It was early morning and the jungle like forest was still wet with dew. They climbed on top of a small hill and stopped to decide their course of action. Luffy shifted into his air form and flew up high in the air. After checking out the terrain and picking the best path to take, he returned to his crew. "We've got an hour, hour and and a half until we reach the mountain. Nami opened her mouth. "Captain, what do we do once we find Usopp and whoever took him." Luffy looked at her telling her that they'll decide when they get there. They moved out.

After finally reaching the edge of the mountain, the group took out their climbing gear and started climbing. Once they were halfway up, they stopped on a ledge and took a little break. "Wow, we came a long way and there's still a lot more to go. " Said Zoro looking down towards the ground. They've already climbed through around 400 meters. "My arms hurt." Complained Nami. Tenzo took her arms in his and kissed them all over. "Better?" Nami blushed lightly and kissed him. Luffy rolled his eyes at the romantic scene and told the others to get a move on, reminding them about Usopp.

A hand reached up and looked for handhold, finding it, the hand then contorted, pulling up a body. Suddenly a head peeked out and focused on the distance. "Oh shit, I think you guys should see this." "What is it?" Cried a voice from down below. "Climb up and see.

The group, sans Luffy were standing on top of the mountain. He was the last one to climb up. What he saw made his eyes darken. It was a marine base. But not just any base, it had four complexes turned towards the sea, all had multiple floors. But that wasn't even the worst of it. It had a harbor big enough to house thirty battleships. Nineteen ships were parked in the harbor. Six of them battle cruisers. "I think we just found Aries Harbor, the main marine harbor in the East blue." Spoke Tenzo in awe of the massive structure. Nami sat down on a rock, tired. "This island isn't on any maps of East Blue. The map we stole from Buggy shows this island to be a normal island, just with treasure buried. She sighed. "I'm sorry captain, had I known I'd never lead us here." A hand found itself on Nami's shoulder. Looking up she saw it was Luffy's. "It's ok, it's not your fault. We all thought this was nothing more than a normal island."

They've been sitting on the mountain top for some time now, giving Luffy time to think. Finally he decided on a course of action. Facing his crew he spoke "I want you guys to climb back down the mountain and head to the ship." "What?! You'll take them on, on your own? Are you crazy?! Yelled Nami. "I am the captain and you WILL listen to me." Luffy yelled back. Nami and the rest of the crew shivered. He continued with a more normal tone. "I decided that I will infiltrate the base, find Usopp and fly out back to our ship." He explained. "All I want from you four is to go back to the ship and wait for me to return." Tenzo exchanged glances with Zoro. Both of them knew what Luffy was capable of. Sanji and Nami remained silent. Suddenly Tenzo looked up at Luffy and said. "We'll do as you say captain." He walked over to Luffy and looked in his eyes. "You're going to use that tehnique aren't you. The kamikaze no ken?" Luffy nodded his eyes grim. "Nobody kidnaps my crew and gets away with it." Tenzo turned around and waved to the rest of the group. "Let's go people, time's a wasting."

Luffy watched his team leave and then shifted into his wind form and flew down the mountain side, flying through the jungle he found a team of marines on patrol. He quickly finished them off and took the clothes of one marine. From then on he walked. After fifteen minutes he arrived to the edge of the base. Scouting the four buildings he quickly walked towards the nearest one.

He was walking down a hallway, doors left and right. He stopped in front of a door, the plaque on it saying "Liutenant Schiffer". He looked left and right before entering. As he closed the door behind him he heard a voice ask. "What is it" He looked at the liutenant. "Hello, sir. I'ts my first day here and I got lost, could you tell me the way to the prison cells. I've got a message for the warden.

"A message for the warden, I see. " Looking Luffy up and down he sighed "The marines are getting younger and younger these days, how old are you? Seventeen? Eighteen?" Asked liutenant Schiffer. "nineteen, Sir." The liutenant nodded "Already a man then, good. I've got a son your age, you know. Yeah, Teein is his name. He just sent me a message that his wife is pregnant and you know what. I'm simply overjoyed. I'm gonna be a grandfather." Said the lieutenant with a smile. Luffy smiled "Congratulations, Sir." The lieutenant stood up, and walked past Luffy opening the door he walked out. Luffy followed. "Not one for words are you? Well, no matter, come I'll show you the way. "He started walking, Luffy walked besides him. "You picked the right building, just went to the wrong side." Luffy nodded, keeping silent. They walked down through a few flights of steps, the liutenants's clearance making it easy to pass checkpoints. They stopped infront of a door, three floors under the ground level. "Well aren't you gonna enter?" Asked the Liutenant. " Luffy nodded." Thank you for showing me the way sir. " "No problem...ehh I didn't get your name? Luffy looked at him and spoke, tone even. "Luffy, sir." The lieutenant nodded, and walked of scratching his hair in confusion. "Where did I hear that name before."

Luffy walked inside the warden's office. The warden was currently engaged inside a book. "Sir, The commander wants to know if we have any new information on the prisoner we captured yesterday?"

The warden, looked up finally noticing Luffy. He took of his reading glasses, put one side of the frame in his mouth and started lightly chewing it. "The situation is the same as 16 hasn't spoken a single word. He doesn't seem to be cracking. The normal interogation techniques don't seem to be working on him. We might need to use more..extreme measures." Luffy's face was grim. "which key is the one to his cell? The warden stood up and looked suspiciously at Luffy. "Why would you want to know that?" "Shit I slipped up." Thought Luffy while executing the man in one swift move. The warden's head rolled on the floor. Suddenly the bases alarm went off. It blared loudly. "They must have realised I'm here. I knew I shouldn't have told that lieutenant my name." Thought Luffy while searching the walls for the right key. Finding the right key he turned around and left the room. Once outside on the hallway, he turned to the left and moved in almost a jog towards the cells.

Finding the cells, he walked down the hallway looking at the numbers above the cells. "fourteen, fifteen. Here it is, sixteen. Just as hew about to unlock the cell a voice stopped him. "Wait! Who are you" Luffy disappeared and reappeared behind the marine. Grabbed his head and sent a blade of wind directly into his head, killing him instantly. Running back to the door, he unlocked it. What he saw wasn't pretty. Usopp was tied to a chair, his upper lip and both eyes were blue and heavily swollen. His left wrist was probably couldn't see. He was unconscious.

Luffy was filled with rage. He felt like a dam just exploded, making him flood the room with the king's disposition. While he couldn't see it, the marines in the harbor were dropping like flies, slipping into sweet unconsciousness. Calming down slightly, he untied Usopp and lifted him up on his shoulder. He leveled his head at the ceiling and with a cry of "Kaze no Ken"( wind fist) he destroyed it, leaving a circular hole. The technique continued upward, destroying each floor and ceiling as it went, until the sky could be seen from the dungeons. Luffy flew up with Usopp, passing each floor and seeing stunned looks of the marines that stayed conscious from his haki tantrum. He, kept flying upwards until he was around four hundred feet above the Aries harbor. Again gathering his haki, a white sheen enveloped his whole body as he shook and yelled with all his might. "KAMIKAZE NO KEN! (Wind God Fist) A great ball of air, over a 100 meters thick appeared under Luffy. The ball filled with pressurised air slowly began moving downwards, quickly gathering speed as it fell. There was a terrible boom as it hit. A cloud of dust was raised, shaping into a form of a mushroom. After the cloud scattered the extent of the damage was seen. All that was left of the harbor was a giant circular crater. It was slowly being filled with sea water. Once it was filled, nothing would remain of Aries harbor. The ships that were harbored were blown to open sea, more than a half destroyed and slowly sinking. Luffy looked at the devastation with a grim look. Regret flashed through his eyes. He fixed his hold on Usopp and flew off.

Luffy was standing next to the bow of the ship and looking out at the sea. It was night. He was currently deep in thought. Tenzo walked up to him from behind. They stayed silent for a minute before Luffy broke the silence. "Tenzo, am I...Am I a monster." "You did what you thought was best Luffy." Answered Tenzo, giving Luffy a sidewards glance. "There was this man that I met when I was inside the harbor. He told me his son's wife just got pregnant. He was so happy at the thought of being a grandfather." Luffy paused for a second, then continued "And I took that away from him, from them. How many lives did I destroy today Tenzo. How many" Said Luffy, his eyes dim and looking disappointed. "Just the fact that you regret what you did today shows that you're not a monster Luffy. I would have done the same in your situation." Said Tenzo and turned around about to leave. "Come inside soon, Sanji cooked dinner and after you eat, you can go see Usopp. And remember Luffy, without you Usopp could be dead or worse. " With that said he left back inside.

Luffy just looked at the stars and sighed.

It was morning and only the sounds of the sea could be heard. Nami was currently behind the wheel leading them to the next island. The door to the deck opened and Tenzo walked out and stretched.

He walked up to Nami and hugged her from behind. "Good morning.""Morning, how did you sleep?" Asked nami spooning into Tenzo "It was good, I was surprised you weren't there when I woke up." He said while kissing her cheek from behind. She was about to answer when Sanji's voice yelled out from the lower deck. "Coffee!" Tenzo released her and they both went inside.

They entered the kitched and saw Zoro and Luffy already there drinking coffee and eating biscuits that Sanji baked. "Tenzo, try these cookies, they're really good!" Said Luffy while offerring Tenzo a cookied. Tenzo took it and tasted it. "Chocolate chip, my favourite. They're really tasty. You sure can cook Sanji. Said Tenzo, Sanji looked up from his coffee and smiled. "Of course they are, I baked them, I've got sponge baking right now. I'm making a cake later for Usopp. " The group smiled thinking that it was Sanji's way of apologizing for letting them separate.

Luffy took a sip of coffee and looked at Nami. "Our course?" Nami looked Luffy straight in the eye. "My home island." Luffy shook, remembering what that meant. Zoro looked up from his paper. "We're finally paying Arlong a visit are we? Sanji looked confused. "Who's Arlong." Nami explained. Sanji looked livid, he stood up. "I'll kill him! How can someone hurt a rose as sweet and delicate as Nami-chan." Luffy looked at Sanji and said. "No I'll kill him, I already promised that to myself." The two started arguing for the right to kill Arlong. Nami just watched, feeling that the time of Arlong's reign was coming to an end.

Well, another chapter done, the next one is coming tommorrow. Hope you enjoyed it and if you feel like it, please review. Cya.