Rain: Yeah, it's my fault for abandoning this for so long... it is your right to throw rocks at me... but, first thing first. -pulls Luffy to block her from the vicious rocks- READ ON!
Stupid cowards. They are just are just being what they are. Let it go. That's what I'm thinking about right now. But still, it can't keep me from glaring angrily at the twos kneeling beside me. Usopp is shivering from head to toe, with his fingers grabbing onto his pants tightly while Nami smiled sweetly at me, probably hoping that I forgives her. Turning my face away, I huffed and bite off a slice of meat. The dinosaur meat tastes quite nice from what I expected. "You two really should check before you ran." I said after I swallowed. Brogy is busy enjoying his snack while singing to himself, that's why he didn't heard what we were talking about.
Half and hour earlier, we, as in Brogy and I, found them by following their screams in the jungle. And guess what had happened to them? Nothing. Well, except for a few encounters with some jungle animals. Other than that, they also met Brogy's friend, Dorry, the knight-like giant. Dorry had saved them from being eaten when he was on his way back home with his two guests, Luffy and Vivi, which I'm somehow not surprised about. Now, Luffy and Vivi are being guests at Dorry's home with a few barrels of alcohol as gifts when the three of us back to Brogy's to enjoy the host's treat of meat. And also, on the way back, Usopp and Nami had explained their disappearances to me, which is the reason why I'm angry now.
"H-how can we check when-when we were so scared?" Nami said loudly, but not loud enough for the giant to overhears us. "And you were blocked by his large body! If we check, he will see us. Is that right? Usopp." Nami turns to Usopp.
"Wh-what? Er... Ame, are you sure that he wouldn't kill us or even eat us?" He said in whispers. He still had his mind on a certain fear factor.
I sighed. I gave up. There's only one way to do this. "NE! BROGY! Do you eat humans?" Nami tried to covers up my mouth, but I pull down her hand with ease.
"GEBABABABABABA!" Brogy slowly puts down his piece of meat. "Is that why your little friends disappeared? The same reason you were scared of me earlier, Ame-Chan?"
"Yea... I told them the truth about you, but somehow, they still don't believe about that." I blushed slightly from the embarrassment.
"It's-it's-it's because of that pile of bones!" Usopp suddenly shouted, pointing at the little mountain inside the cave. "A-a-ame, don't tell me that th-th-those are animals bones. I know how to identify whether it-it-it are animals or humans. And those looked lot l-l-like humans." Tears glistering in his eyes from fear.
"Oh yea. Why is it there's a pile of human bones inside your cave, Brogy?" I asked in an oblivious way while ignoring the shock looks from Nami and Usopp. I pretty much know why there is a pile of bones, just lazy to explain to them how I knew it. Not caring. Not caring. Continue to eat my lunch. I took another bit out from the dinosaur meat.
The giant scratches his blond beard while thinking. "It's because some of them got tired of waiting a year for the log post and most of them tried to hurt me because~"
"WAIT!" Nami suddenly jumps up. "A-a-a-a year? We have to wait for a year to go to the next island?" I quickly hold on to her when her legs gave out after the shout. I shifted the meat to my left hand while my right gently drops Nami to the ground.
"That right." The giant continues to eat.
"Is-is-is there any way to obtain a log post to the next island without waiting for so long, Brogy-san?" Nami asked bravely.
"Well, there is a eternal post. It points toward Dorry's and mine's village, Elbaf. But, it is also what we been fighting over for this one hundred years." Brogy said slowly.
"Wait. I thought that you and Dorry are friends. Why are you guys fighting?" Finally getting brave for his own sake, Usopp stopped shivering after knowing that the giant won't eat him. "And for one hundred years?" He exclaimed.
"GEBABABABABABA! It's not something unusual since we, the giants, live for thrice the length of a normal human's life." Brogy continues. "There's a rule in our village. If there's anyone disagrees with one another, they shall come to this island and fight for their truth. Then, only the victor can return to the village."
"But, what was the reason you guys are fighting in the first place anyway, Brogy?" the shooter asks with curiosity and excitement.
"Well, actually I also don't know. GEBABABABABABA! It's been a long time since we started to fight and it seems that both of us had forgotten the real cause." The giant lets out laughter and throws his large finished bone to the flames.
"What? How you guys could forgot~~~" I tunes out Usopp's whining and their conversation after getting bored of listening to history. I wasn't much of a fan of history anyway. My eyes searches left and right for a drink since the barbecued foods are leaving a drought spell in my throat. Nami had joined the talk with the giant as well, maybe checking out whether any of the dead pirates had any valuables left to be taken or not. Wonder whether my eyes sparkle like gems or not when they found a few bottles lying beside Usopp's big purse-like bag. My nose picked up the sweet citrus smell from the bottles. Must be one of Nami's tangerine drink made by Sanji. Should I or shouldn't I? I asked myself as I pick one of the bottles. Whatever. She brought it here. Looking back at them as I drink the delicious drink straight from the bottle. Such a relaxing atmosphere. Feels like something before the thunderstorm. However, that's not surprising. Wonder will someone attack us or not, since here only consist of what-called-useless fighters. Sighs.
"BOOM!" I spurted a little of the drink and coughed due to the sudden eruption. Shitty-volcano. I wipe the wetness on my mouth with the back of my hand. I looked around for any sign of my embarrassment being seen by others. But soon, I found something's wrong with the picture. They are not chatting anymore. Instead, Brogy is wearing a stoic, almost scary, face, and the others were quiet, too quiet for peoples that were chatting so happily a second ago.
My eyes continue to searches for any clue that causes this. However, I was forced to ask when Brogy's large hand reaches for his shield. "Brogy, what are you doing?"
"Forgive me, my little friends. I have a fight to attend." He started to get up and heads towards the direction of the volcano.
"Huh?" Question marks began to appear in my mind.
"Wow. I would love to be like them." Usopp says admirably while staring at the back of Brogy like a god.
"Well, good luck in being a giant." Nami reply with full of sarcasm.
"That is not what I meant. I mean, being brave like the giants. Being a knight." Usopp held his nose up high in the air while posing with sparking eyes. "Being a man."
Nami eyed him critically, but didn't say anything. "C'mon, Ame. We need to find the others and tell them what we know now." She walks towards where we last saw Dorry had gone home. "And we must hurry. I'm having a strange feeling that we aren't safe on this island."
"You don't think that the Baraque Works are here already, do you?" Snapping out of his temporarily heroic attitude, Usopp asks us timidly.
Baraque Works. A group of assassin and bounty hunters work for Mr. Zero. They are hunting the Straw-hat pirates because they are helping Princess Vivi and also found out who really is Mr. Zero, Crocodile, one of the Seven Pirate Lords. A frown appears on my face as I register this.
"But I don't think that it's them." Nami says wisely but full of concern. "They would have taken some kind of moves already by now."
"Maybe, they already have. Maybe, they aren't just aiming for us this time." I say slowly while processing all the facts in my mind.
" does you meant? They are aiming for the giants as well?" Usopp laughs with disbelieves. "I think that it is kind of hard to take down a giant. Not to mention, they are two giants that were captains of some pirate ship."
"Shit! The sakes!" I remembered the barrels that we gave to Dorry as my eyes glanced to the bottle I'm holding. "Nami, Usopp. We must find the giants now. We must stop Brogy from hurting Dorry!"
"Now you are being unreasonable, Ame." Usopp mocks me. "There is nothing wrong with the sakes. If you haven't forgotten, the barrels did come from our ship. So now, you are accusing us for hurting the giants?"
"Ugh! Not us, you imbecile! It's the trick made by the moron Mr. Three." I shouted to his annoying face. "He had somehow placed some bomb in the barrel so that Dorry would fall when he fights with Brogy. And some of us will get~" captured on the large candle cake. My eyes widen to the scene appearing before my eyes.
Suddenly, my hand was yanked. "Ame! How did you know all this? Who is Mr. Three? And the barrels. How do you know it will explode? And~" Nami questions me angrily. Slight pain coming from her strong grip on my hand.
"Stop!" I shook off her hand. "There is no time for this now. We must find the giants and others now!" I look at them. Form their face, I found that they doesn't believes me. "Fine. I will find them myself. Usopp, remember, use fire when you have to." Leaving them behind, I started to run towards the woods, in hope that I could stop what the worse could do.
Luffy: Hey, Rain! Where did you go for so long?
Rain: Oh... Nowhere really. just slacking around... -covers her head with her arms while some rocks slides off the cliff and 'accidentally' hit her- Sorry! My bad! Well, you can't do anything about it... or i can't... my laptop is being confiscated back home... Even if i might not have my beloved in this period of time, i will try to get the story back in time...
Luffy: Yea, right. However, welcome back, Rain! Let's celebrate! Sanji! Meat!
Sanji: -appears at the door- Shut up, you moron! -his eyes sparkling- Rain-Chan! You're back! I been missing you so much!
Rain: -sweatdrops appearing on her forehead- Yeah. And I miss you so... -tries to push Sanji away- Anyway, sorry for my absents and thank you for reading this story. REVIEW please! Click the pretty button?
