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Roar of the Kingdom Crushers

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It was another day in the New World and the Strawhats are finally used to not sleeping at night so they follow Zoro's example by napping when they weren't doing what they do best. Nami had gotten to know her captain better than ever and she will get to know him even more in their latest adventure on the next island.

Chopper had shown signs of growing up when he finally accepted Kaya's calling him her Teacher. He finished his notes so he went a walk to the Sunny yet he didn't hear a thing from the ship,

"Sunny what is wrong?"

{Oh, sorry Chopper I just a bad sense about the island Nami chose for us}, since the Strawhats gotten used to the New World, Nami had been choosing the islands to go because Luffy had seen the ones he liked while the others didn't so which was very nice of him. Chopper was a slight confused but then he too got a chill down his spine and it didn't feel good either.

The pirates came across the island a few moments later to have a disappointed look on their faces; the whole place was a wasteland. The ground was dunged at and tilled rather poorly and violently with something distorted buildings and hills in the background. Still, the air was stainable so the entire crew came this time because only Luffy had been there once. The only thing they could find was a ruined town.

"I guess some big storm had got here before us…" Nami theorized which Luffy didn't seem to agree because;

"No Nami, this entre place was just a victim of a battlefield long ago and it just ended today." The crew wanted to disagree since they didn't know what could have been fought here to make the island the way it is exempt for Robin "Mr. Captain has a point, miss navigator…" The Strawhats were struck, Luffy is barely right but they noticed that he was looking at one of the rocks that looked like it was being eaten; there was acid on it! Then Luffy went into one of the huts that were still standing which was all dusty and messily inside; like no one has been in it for years but no sighs of storm damage.

Something sure did happen to cause entire town to be abandoned and the landscape to be ruined. The Strawhats all figured that Luffy knew something about this island because he acted like he was here before.

After hearing about the island from Luffy, it was all silence when,

"So Captain…" Zoro broke the silence catching everyone attention, "where on this island can we meet these 'Kingdom Crushers'?"

Luffy went silent until he pounded the ground,

"Zoro, I almost died going against their power and your level of Haki isn't up to my level so I shouldn't tell you!" The Strawhats never even seen Luffy speak out so maturely about his own crew doing something stupid that they fainted for a while; when they recovered their senses, Chopper smelled something fowl, like those swamp clouds on Skypiea. Sure enough, a huge group of dangerously-looking clouds with some lightning and acid rain was just over the hill closest to the pirates.

Usopp took out a periscope to look closer to the scary weather and saw three people fighting in the center; one of them looked like a cross between a hawk and a lightning storm, another was all puffy like the toxic clouds around them, the last one was all covered in acid they continued to fight. The Strawhats were either scared, not amused, or excited by the sight; yet some of them wanted to fight something about 'kicks' and charged at them!

Their skills were proven useless because they all scrubbed to the toxicity of the surrounding clouds when,

"Gum-Gum…" Luffy also charged at the maelstrom "Armament: Harding…Jet Storm!" Luffy unleashed a Gum-Gum Jet Storm that succeeded in piercing the clouds and hitting the opponents, striking them to the ground. That action caught them off guard and caused the clouds to disappear because their creator was knocked by surprise. Luffy's Haki was made aware since that didn't surprise those with dangerous powers. They then noticed Luffy and bowed in a manner like a student seeing a teacher after some decade or two.

They settled their daily duel to discuss with their friend's crew about themselves; the toxic cloud one was called Jacilisa, the one with the acid was called Yjoupda, and the one with the weather-like powers was called Ksanian. They all seemed to bare no ill will to the pirates or themselves despite their useless fight that kept them away from people.

They even allowed the Strawhats to sleep at the place which was all they could save during their brawls since the rest were too unstable and there was the chance of them to get up early and might crash it. The pirate just accepted the offer and went to sleep; except for Nami, she felt like she shouldn't sleep yet.

She wondered if something will happen on this island; she got her wish.

Far away from where the pirates, the Kingdom Crushers were fighting again. Nami finally got to see how these rivals fight together; Ksanian was using aiming techniques with his lightning, Yjoupda was covering the very earth with acid, Jacilisa was on defense while using her toxic clouds to prevent physical attacks from homing on her and stranding her opponents to the ground.

"Wow…" Nami was thinking on how these devil fruit users were so powerful even more than the rare logia powers, "Only the King of Pirates can defeat them and his is my lover."

"What's up, Nami?"

"Luffy!" Nami was a little scared but was relieved that it was her captain who seemed to be notable to sleep at all. He was to find his own seat when Nami offered to share her, he just smiled. Nami was either getting comfortable around Luffy or watching the fight, yet she wanted to know how Luffy was able to do it,

"Luffy…"

"Yes, Catstar?" That comment almost made Nami forget her question yet she snapped out her trance.

"How actually did you beat them? The Kingdom Crushers?" Luffy thought for a moment and began;

"When he started the duel, he had a good idea of what his opponents' powers were. What he needed to know is to avoid the toxic clouds and the acid while being mindful of the weather attacks. It was the three devil fruit users who forgotten how to work in a team and who under estimated their opponent. Luffy, being fair in all, let his opponents have the first move, which wasn't pretty but Luffy did learn about their powers more.

During the first week, Luffy had been on defense and the run in order to see how his powerful but inexperienced opponents find hiding ones and they were the worst and Luffy giggled at how they were really clueless and easily getting lost. Throughout the next week and so, they went and went against each other with Luffy being the last one standing.

After Luffy finished his tale, Nami still had a lot of questions but she saved them for later as she was enjoying that her captain finally grew up. Luffy noticed since he took a blanket out of nowhere and put it on Nami who smiled, shed tears once again, and hugged Luffy even closer. What the captain did next was make him comfortable by allowing Nami to sleep on his chest like a bed which she didn't complain and neither did he.

They did this for the whole night for the umpteenth time which seemed to be unique to that couple. Tomorrow, however, they will have to leave in order to see the New World more.

End of Chapter 10

*Hello everyone, this is the latest island arc on The New Strawhats! This is my first One Piece story so remember to be easy on the reviews and no flamers please!*