Chapter 9- Captain GoldHeart
Chapter's Quote: "Sometimes you feel watched, but in reality, that's the government."
Luffy had hardly ate anything which caused everyone surprise.
"Luffy, are you sick or something?" Sanji asked nervously.
"It can't be that, even if he was sleeping he ate food. Something's wrong." Franky said staring at Luffy.
Luffy stood up and walked for the door.
"Captain-san?" Robin asked curiously.
"I'm going onto the deck." Luffy said as he opened the door and walked out into the nice cold air.
Luffy sighed as he walked toward the figurehead.
Suddenly, a shout echoed around Luffy and suddenly, a man jumped from the crow's nest and swung a katana at Luffy.
Luffy dodged it barely as the man stood up.
"Not bad. Your turn, Captain." Limma said as Luffy heard another shout.
Luffy was suddenly flung into the mast and pinned down by a giant hand.
"Hahahahahaha! This is the 300 Million Head? That's funny!"
GoldHeart shouted as he grabbed Luffy and smashed him into the deck.
By now, everyone had heard them and was running out to see their attacker.
"Who the hell are you?" Zoro asked as he saw Luffy smashed into the deck.
"My ship!" Franky cried out.
"They better be ready for some food." Sanji said lighting a cigarette.
"Ah, the 120 Million, 77 Million, 44, Million, and even the 80 Million Berries Heads! That's 621 Million Berries in front of me! I'll be rich!" GoldHeart said happily.
Zoro unsheathed one of his swords as Sanji blew some smoke out.
"We can beat you guys blindfolded." Sanji said mockingly.
"I don't think you'd want to though." Limma said grinning.
"Oh yeah?" Zoro said as he ran forward and slashed at GoldHeart.
Zoro sheathed his sword until suddenly, Zoro was grabbed from behind and tossed into the deck also.
"Ha! A little sword can't beat me! I ate the Tate Tate No Mi Fruit! I can take any attacks without getting hurt!" GoldHeart said laughing.
"Well if it isn't GoldHeart."
Everyone looked over including GoldHeart and Limma to see Rune sitting there, staring at GoldHeart.
"I remember you. The little brat who was looking for his sister. I guess you finally found her, huh?"
Rune remained silent as GoldHeart pulled out a large axe.
"I'm going to kill you first, cause then I can get over a Billion Berries with yours and the monkey here's head alone!" GoldHeart said happily.
"I don't think so." Rune said as he stood up and unsheathed his black katana.
"Heh, swords don't work on me anyway. How can you beat me?" GoldHeart said sneering at Rune.
"Musei Karasu..." Rune began to say.
"I won't give you a second!" GoldHeart as he jumped into the air and swung his axe from above.
"Maru!" Rune said as he swung his blade once, and suddenly, GoldHeart's entire body was slashed to bits.
"I guess you didn't know that this powerful black blade, is made of Sea Stone, did you? I guess not." Rune said as he sheathed his sword.
"How dare you do that to Captain!" Limma shouted.
Suddenly, Limma was thrown against the mast by Luffy and Zoro.
"How dare you do that to us!"
They shouted in unison as Limma fell to the deck knocked out cold.
They all stood around their prisoners as they glared down at them.
Luffy and Zoro were being held back by Franky cause they said that they wanted to kill them for what they did.
Sanji had left for the market to buy more food, as Robin went to her room to read.
Rune was sitting cross-legged as he stared at Luffy and Zoro.
"Are they always this angry?" he murmured to himself.
Luffy had finally calmed down, as did Zoro.
Franky lowered his arms and sighed.
Franky looked over at Rune who waved his hand.
"What are you doing here?" Franky asked the redhead captain.
"Searching." He said bluntly.
"What for?" Luffy asked curiously.
Rune smiled a little and said.
"Secret."
Zoro crossed his arms and stared at the two prisoners again.
"So who are they?" he asked bitterly.
"The big one is Captain Howard GoldHeart, and the other one is his first mate Limma." Rune said pointing at them.
"So their pirates?" Franky asked scratching his head.
"Yep. GoldHeart is worth 200 Million Berries." Rune said to Franky.
"Hmph, he's pretty weak for that kind of bounty." Zoro said.
"The only reason his bounty is so high is because he made a deal with the Navy." Rune said looking at the ground.
"What kind of pirate makes a deal with the Navy?" Franky asked suspicious.
"Heh, 10 years ago, GoldHeart took over an island that I was on for a while. At the time, I was still looking for Robin, and I'd heard that GoldHeart had a little girl on his ship. So I thought it was Robin." Rune said.
"Was it?" Luffy asked tilting his head.
"Yep, Robin had been on their ship until she escaped from them." Rune said gloomily.
"But you didn't know that, right?" Zoro asked looking at Rune.
"Yes, but I was caught by that one over there, Limma." Rune said pointing to the knocked out pirate.
"You were caught by him?" Zoro said laughing.
Rune gritted his teeth and said bitterly.
"This was 10 years ago."
Zoro continued to laugh until Rune kicked him in the head.
"Now then, back to my story." Rune said as Zoro clutched his head in pain.
"GoldHeart found out that I was Robin's brother, and turned me over to a Navy officer that survived GoldHeart's attack. His only request was that his bounty would increase, and the Navy man agreed." Rune said.
Luffy nodded and then tilted his head in confusing.
"Why isn't your hair black, if you're Robin's brother, shouldn't you have black hair?"
Luffy asked as everyone stared at him, stunned at his smart question.
"My hair was originally black, but it turned red when I was young. My roots were still black back then, so that's how they made it certain that I was her brother."
Rune said to Luffy who nodded happily.
Zoro was quiet for a moment and then asked.
"Blood?" .
"Yep, my hair turned red from all the blood that was spilt on me from fallen people." Rune said flicking his hair.
"I thought so. Each time I saw you I could smell the blood, I just didn't know where it was coming from."
Luffy tilted his head in confusion as Franky tried to summarize what Rune had said.
Luffy's brain finally clicked and he smiled.
"So that's what he meant. Okay, let's find Usopp and Chopper and get out of here!"
Luffy shouted into the ceiling. Rune stopped smiling and frowned at Luffy.
Rune closed his eyes and then said.
"What about Nami?"
Sanji was walking back to the ship with several bags of food.
He walked past another clothes store, and when he glanced into the window, he dropped his cigarette in surprise.
Nami was standing inside, looking at dresses.
Sanji remained unusually quiet and didn't run to her like he usually did.
Instead, he started to look at the clothes to not attract attention as he watched Nami.
She turned around, and Sanji's eyes narrowed.
"Nami's eyes aren't green, their brown." He said to himself as he continued to look at Nami.
He then thought back to when he battled Lock on that beach and remembered that her eyes were brown also.
"It can't be her either then." Sanji said quietly.
He then noticed a part of Nami's tattoo and he nodded.
"That's Nami. I guess that servant selling lady changed her eye color as well."
He said as he turned to walk away.
"I've got to tell the others." He added as he started to quickly walk down the street.
Behind him, someone was leaning against the wall of a building and smiling as he passed.
Lock flicked her hair and giggled.
"So, Sanji's going to tell Luffy, Luffy's going to try to not care, and in the end, Nami will be gone, huh?"
"Let's hope that Luffy can change his mind, before it's too late."
She added mysteriously as she walked toward the other side of the city.
Sanji started to run once the ship was in view.
"Oi, everyone! I've got food and news!" Sanji shouted as he jumped onboard.
"What is it, Sanji?" Luffy asked as he climbed over to him from the figurehead.
"Yeah Curly Brow, what is it?" Zoro said grinning.
Sanji glared at Zoro until he remembered why he was shouting.
"I saw Nami."
He said calmly trying to control his anger.
"Really?" Franky asked happily.
"Yeah, but it was weird. Nami had green eyes." Sanji said lighting another cigarette.
"But Nami has brown eyes." Zoro said looking over at Luffy.
Luffy nodded and then asked.
"How do you know it was Nami?" Sanji grinned and then said proudly.
"I can remember Nami's figure perfectly. I also saw her tattoo." Sanji grinned and Zoro added.
"Cause you're always trying to hit on her." Sanji's control snapped, and him and Zoro started their fight as usual.
Luffy remained silent as he tried to remember what Nami's eye color was when he saw her in the city.
"Nami had brown eyes though." Luffy said quietly.
Zoro heard that and then frowned. Sanji also heard it and turned to face Luffy.
"You saw Nami too?" he asked.
"I saw her yesterday. She had brown eyes though."
"How can that be?" Franky asked out loud.
Behind them, Rune was looking over the railing until he said.
"Nee-chan is back."
Rune pointed toward Robin who was walking toward the ship.
Sanji turned and started to happily wave over at her.
Robin smiled and climbed onboard.
"Guess what I saw at the bookstore." Robin said calmly.
"A Book?" Luffy asked stupidly.
"Well yes that, and also Navigator-san." Robin said looking at everyone's frozen faces.
"Nami was at the bookstore too?" Luffy asked confused.
"Yes." Robin said calmly.
"What color were her eyes?" Zoro asked crossing his arms for the thousandth time.
"They were green." Robin said plainly.
"Green? That can't be. I saw Nami-san too, and she had the same color eyes as the one you saw." Sanji said surprised.
"Nami's eyes are brown though, I saw them myself!" Luffy shouted.
"Yeah, Nami's eyes are brown. I wonder what's going on." Franky said confused.
"What about Nami's sister?" Zoro asked Sanji.
"She has brown eyes too." Rune said from the railing.
Everyone turned to face Rune. Luffy then looked at the deck and quietly said to himself.
"What's going on…"
Wow, this plot gets thicker each and every chapter:)
Time for translating!:
Tate means Shield
Musei Karasu Maru for those who don't remember, means Silent(Musei) Raven(Karasu) Circle(Maru)
Here's another Origin Of Names:
Name: Zephyr and Gladstone
Zephyr's name comes from the God of Wind. The name fits also because he slashes swiftly like the wind.
Gladstone was just a random name I came up with. :)
See ya next chapter! Ja ne!
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